Sophocles's Electra vs. Euripides's Electra

Euripides and Sophocles wrote their own Electra story version. The basic plot is as follows. After the return of the Trojan War, Agamemnon was killed by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus and regained his nephew Helen from the Trojan horse. Electra and her brother Orestes killed their mother and her lover in the retribution of his death. Both authors wrote the same plot, but the story was completely different. Sophocles focuses on Orestes, but Euripides focuses more on Electra's life.

Sophocles and Euclid version of Euripides and Electra version of Euripides are the central theme of revenge in many similarities. Characters, Electra and Orestes have to see again in retaliation against the father's murder. Unfortunately, in both versions, a legitimate solution led the brothers and sisters to destroy their mothers. Both versions of Electra can be compared with Aeschylus' Libation Bearers. But compared to Electra and Esiros' respective plays, they are more dramatic and more similar.

Introduction: - Thanks to the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, Electra and Orestes achieved such great success and received great praise for their expression, themes, symbols and plots. Incest love, demolition, betrayal, and especially mourning had wide contact and debate. For example, revenge is the soul of these two plays, and it is mainly discussed as a theme of drama. But the relationship with the tragedy of character is far better than argument.

Euripides and Sophocles wrote their own Electra story version. The basic plot is as follows. After the return of the Trojan War, Agamemnon was killed by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus and regained his nephew Helen from the Trojan horse. Electra and her brother Orestes killed their mother and her lover in the retribution of his death. Both authors wrote the same plot, but the story was completely different. Sophocles focuses on Orestes, but Euripides focuses more on Electra's life.