Notes from Source: The Sophoclean tragedy ‘Elektra’ does not offer moral judgment on justice and matricide. The characters’ ideals on human justice, effectively articulated during the first part of the play, were relegated to uncertainty in the end. Orestes, displaying silence and inarticulateness after killing his mother, resigned his fate and judgment to Apollo. Elektra, who had earlier held strong convictions on human values even while in mourning, was eventually immersed into Orestes’ identity, and consequently, his helplessness.

Further Notes: Place: Berkeley, Calif Publisher: University of California Press