Justice_(from_The_Oresteia)

Justice (from The Oresteia) In The Oresteia, after Orestes is bidden by the god Apollo to kill his mother, the gods known as the Furies sentence him to be haunted. Due to the opposition of the wills of the gods, there was a divine trial, and the outcome was to be wagered by a jury of twelve men and the court’s judge, the wisest goddess Athena. The nature of conflicting divinity clearly defines the line between devotion (on Orestes’ part) and justice (the argument of the Furies, that the murder was still a wrongful act, even if divinely decreed). They can be further characterized into two sub-categories: the devotion being the humanly element of the matter--because it comes down to a personal choice--and the divine matter of the subject, justice, because that comes from the gods. This story is ultimately based upon our primitive conception of what we think could be right and wrong. The gods are simply the catalyst to propel the true goal of the story: what is just and unjust. Similarly, if murdering is unjust, then why does punishment come in differing severities, if it even comes at all' While most punishment today for murder is wrong, kill, right, oresteia, gods, given, even, being, upon, truth, told, story, soldiers, justice, doing, comes, between, war, unjust, two, though, think, punishment, now, murder, line, killing, judge, goal, furies, evil, due, divine, devotion, circumstance