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Medea and Electra | Third Episode: The Messenger and Orestes’ Return Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What is Electra prepared to do when she first hears the offstage “howls of death”?

2. What is her response to the Messenger when she first sees him?

3. What is the lie Orestes told Aigisthos to mask his identity?

4. For whom was Aigisthos preparing his feast?

5. Why did Orestes butcher the calf?

6. Why is Orestes given the cleaver with which he will kill Aigisthos?

7. Who among Aigisthos’ company recognized Orestes?

8. Why does Electra’s long speech to Aigisthos’ corpse stand against...


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