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Essay / Justice In The Oreesteia - 1957
While the son is aware that killing his mother can anger the gods and furies and kill him. He feels obligated to listen to Apollo. This curse ends when the son is judged. Now, as he kills his father, a god Apollo says it is justified and promises that the curse will not take him away. However, the Furies believe this is not true. This resulted in his trial and final acquittal. Furries represent justice as vengeance, but they are proven to be an insufficient solution to justice as they do more harm than good. The trial in favor of democracy and fairness then, in the end, transforms the furies into eumindaes for light and marriage. This symbolizes that justice is supposed to be about democracy and fairness and that when we use justice to get revenge, it causes more harm than good. Another implication produced in the Oresteia is that more advanced societies will use a democratic justice system. Like the test that God inflicted on the brother. This is evident because the trial system was imported from Athens. The Greek city that was considered one of the most advanced and best cities of its time. The Oresteia is written by an Athenian writer who aims in his writing to prove how far ahead the Athenians were on two occasions, including their justice system. Athenine introduced justice by trial as a completely new system to Mycenae. And although this system is perhaps more advantageous than the previous one