Introduction
Again in Greek tragedy, which was inspired by Racine, the fatal passion back, and it prevents due to take over. After the fall of Troy, Menelaus offers his daughter Hermione to Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, to reward the active part he had taken to rid the city. Pirro, meanwhile fallen in love with Andromache, his captive, rejects marriage and decides to brave the Greek by marrying the widow of Hector (Trojan hero that his father was killed in a duel). These situations are almost inextricable love, plus the political question is central to the problem. The study of this piece can then comprise a part of Greek mythology, and especially after the famous Trojan War. The characters, the summary, the themes are all important parts that may present to explain the importance of this third part tragic Andromache published in 1667.
I. History of mythology
Andromache was the daughter of Eétion king of Thebes Troy, she became the wife of Hector. Achilles killed his father and his seven brothers in the siege of Thebes and his mother heavily ransomed.
During the siege of Troy, she sensed the impending death of her husband who was actually killed by Achilles. After the fall of Troy, despite his protection, his only son, Astyanax, was killed by the Greeks who feared that once an adult, he cherchât to avenge his family as predicted Calchas.
She was taken as captive by Pyrrhus who was the son Achilles. She became his concubine and gave her three son. Then Pyrrhus married Hermione, daughter of Helen and Menelaus, but they had no children. Then, as the poet Euripides, Andromache Hermione became jealous and accused of witchcraft to make her sterile.
She even took advantage of the absence of her husband to try to kill her with the help of her father. But thanks to the intervention Peleus, grandfather of Pyrrhus and father of the murderer of her family, she had survived. Andromache married Helenus
then, the Trojan seer and son of Priam, but as the story of Virgil's Aeneid, they were already married when Pyrrhus married Hermione. Andromache and Helenus founded the town called Pergamum in memory of the citadel of Troy. That's where they greeted Aeneas when he made a stop in Epirus. Died when Helenus, Andromache and his son founded a new Bergamos Pergamum in Mysia.
II Presentation of characters
is a Trojan princess Andromache, Hector's widow and mother of Astyanax. To save his son's death, she substitutes another child who was killed in his place during the fall of Troy. She is then given as a share of the spoils at Pyrrhus. He falls in love with her but she still refuses its advances until he threatens to deliver his son to the Greeks if they do not marry her. She finally marries. It is still faithful to Hector and dignified.
Cephisus is the confidante of Andromache.
Astyanax was the son of Hector and Andromache, a prisoner of Pyrrhus and heir to the empire of Troy.
Orestes is the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. He is cursed by the family of Atreus. He is in love with Hermione and comes at a time to convince her to follow him and ask for Andromache and her son to deliver them to the Greeks. He is desperate to reclaim the love of Hermione and has a side manipulator.
Pylades is a confidant of Orestes, it helps to overcome obstacles and reasoning. It is a pillar of his life.
Pyrrhus is the son of Achilles who murdered the family of Andromache. He is king of Epirus. He has to marry Hermione, but he is in love with the wife Andromache and thereafter. It is neither good nor bad, he does not know what he wants and he is a bit violent. He was murdered by Orestes who executes the will of Hermione.
Phoenix is the governor of Pyrrhus.
Hermione is the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen. She was first betrothed to Orestes, but promised his father Pyrrhus is infatuated with her. Proud to pride, jealous of the glory of Andromache, she is humiliated by the contempt and the felony of Pyrrhus loves it naively. The violence of his anger at the extent of his anger causes him to handle Orestes to achieve his ends.
confidante Cleone is Hermione.
Menelaus, husband and father of Hermione Helen
Phoenix: Governor of Achilles, Pyrrhus then
III. General summary of the plot
the aftermath of the Trojan War, Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, is sent by the Greeks at the court of King of Epirus, Pyrrhus. He is charged with two prisoners claim: Andromache and her son Astyanax, the only descendant of Hector who may one day avenge his father and the destruction of Troy.
fell in love with his captive, Pyrrhus refuses to accede to the request of Orestes. As she refuses his advances, he threatens to deliver Astyanax if it continues not to marry. Now Orestes plays double game: he came primarily to bring with him the woman he loves, Hermione, daughter of Helen, which she has eyes only for Pyrrhus.
When Andromache, yielding to blackmail, accepts the marriage, Hermione, mad with jealousy, she warns Orestes will follow if he kills Pyrrhus. King of Argos runs. But when he reports to her Hermione act, it reacts violently and banished him from her presence. The reason of Orestes finally can not resist the story of the suicide of Hermione on the body of Pyrrhus.
IV. Abstract deed
The plot is simple: Orestes loves Hermione, who loves Pyrrhus, who loves Andromache who loves Hector, who is dead. The scene is
Buthrote, city of Epirus, Greece.
Act 1 - Orestes, the Greek ambassador, received from Pyrrhus, finds a faithful friend, Pylades. It comes in the name of Greece to come to require that Pyrrhus put to death Astyanax, Hector's son, lest he wants to one day avenge the defeat of Troy and the death of his father Hector , Prince of Troy. Pyrrhus refuses for the moment. But Orestes is also at the court of Pyrrhus, because the love of her life, Hermione is there. Pyrrhus then speaks Andromache, as she refuses him once more, he threatened to deliver Astyanax Greeks.
Act 2 - Orestes talks to Hermione. She also wants to go with him if Pyrrhus refuses to kill the child. Now Pyrrhus, who previously did not like Hermione to Orestes announces that it has decided to give him Astyanax Greeks and he'll probably marry Hermione.
Act 3 - Orestes is furious at losing definitely Hermione. Andromache pleads successively Hermione and Pyrrhus to save the life of his son. Pyrrhus is ready to change their minds if she agrees to marry him Andromache hesitates.
Act 4 - Andromache is determined to marry Pyrrhus to save his son and killed himself soon after by loyalty to Hector. Hermione is furious and asks Orestes to avenge reversals of Pyrrhus in the assassination.
Act 5 - Hermione regrets having demanded the death of Pyrrhus, she loves. Occurs Orestes: he has just accomplished the mission with which it has loaded. Hermione rewarded with insults. Orestes is running amok, struck by the curse of the Erinyes horrible. After repelling Orestes, Hermione kills himself on the corpse of Pyrrhus.
V. Themes
Love and hate are two themes are profoundly linked. Racine, love is passion, suffering, both for those who love for the beloved. Everyone loves that do not like: Orestes loves Hermione; it loves it loves Pyrrhus and Andromache. But it can not respond to his love, because her husband was killed by the father of Pyrrhus, Achilles.
love heroes is as strong as their frustration because they can not be loved in return. At Hermione, love is intimately linked to self-esteem. This causes the anger, jealousy and hatred that destroys and his entourage: Orestes kills Pyrrhus. The only love "pure" is that maternal love is to Andromache Astyanax.
fate. Racine's characters are not masters of their destiny, they carry with them. They sometimes reject as Orestes any responsibility for the Gods.
Fidelity is represented by Andromache that remains faithful to her late husband. This loyalty conflicts with the desire to save his son. It is indeed torn between her love for Hector and the threat of Pyrrhus who wants to kill her son if she did not marry her.
Madness. In Andromache, all the characters suffer and pathological behaviors: Hermione has a bloody rage; Orestes to kill Pyrrhus and will sink into total madness learning Hermione's suicide (Read Act V, scene 1, Hermione alone.)
Death is present throughout the tragedy. It serves as a backdrop: the death of Hector and massacre of the Trojans. It also constitutes action: Orestes comes to ask the death of Astyanax and Andromache wishes to commit suicide to save his son. Finally, the outcome is marked by the murder of Pyrrhus and Hermione's suicide.
Conclusion
Glossary difficult
Pathological : behavior of patients
Frustration: the anger, the fact of not being happy.
Again in Greek tragedy, which was inspired by Racine, the fatal passion back, and it prevents due to take over. After the fall of Troy, Menelaus offers his daughter Hermione to Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, to reward the active part he had taken to rid the city. Pirro, meanwhile fallen in love with Andromache, his captive, rejects marriage and decides to brave the Greek by marrying the widow of Hector (Trojan hero that his father was killed in a duel). These situations are almost inextricable love, plus the political question is central to the problem. The study of this piece can then comprise a part of Greek mythology, and especially after the famous Trojan War. The characters, the summary, the themes are all important parts that may present to explain the importance of this third part tragic Andromache published in 1667.
I. History of mythology
Andromache was the daughter of Eétion king of Thebes Troy, she became the wife of Hector. Achilles killed his father and his seven brothers in the siege of Thebes and his mother heavily ransomed.
During the siege of Troy, she sensed the impending death of her husband who was actually killed by Achilles. After the fall of Troy, despite his protection, his only son, Astyanax, was killed by the Greeks who feared that once an adult, he cherchât to avenge his family as predicted Calchas.
She was taken as captive by Pyrrhus who was the son Achilles. She became his concubine and gave her three son. Then Pyrrhus married Hermione, daughter of Helen and Menelaus, but they had no children. Then, as the poet Euripides, Andromache Hermione became jealous and accused of witchcraft to make her sterile.
She even took advantage of the absence of her husband to try to kill her with the help of her father. But thanks to the intervention Peleus, grandfather of Pyrrhus and father of the murderer of her family, she had survived. Andromache married Helenus
then, the Trojan seer and son of Priam, but as the story of Virgil's Aeneid, they were already married when Pyrrhus married Hermione. Andromache and Helenus founded the town called Pergamum in memory of the citadel of Troy. That's where they greeted Aeneas when he made a stop in Epirus. Died when Helenus, Andromache and his son founded a new Bergamos Pergamum in Mysia.
II Presentation of characters
is a Trojan princess Andromache, Hector's widow and mother of Astyanax. To save his son's death, she substitutes another child who was killed in his place during the fall of Troy. She is then given as a share of the spoils at Pyrrhus. He falls in love with her but she still refuses its advances until he threatens to deliver his son to the Greeks if they do not marry her. She finally marries. It is still faithful to Hector and dignified.
Cephisus is the confidante of Andromache.
Astyanax was the son of Hector and Andromache, a prisoner of Pyrrhus and heir to the empire of Troy.
Orestes is the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. He is cursed by the family of Atreus. He is in love with Hermione and comes at a time to convince her to follow him and ask for Andromache and her son to deliver them to the Greeks. He is desperate to reclaim the love of Hermione and has a side manipulator.
Pylades is a confidant of Orestes, it helps to overcome obstacles and reasoning. It is a pillar of his life.
Pyrrhus is the son of Achilles who murdered the family of Andromache. He is king of Epirus. He has to marry Hermione, but he is in love with the wife Andromache and thereafter. It is neither good nor bad, he does not know what he wants and he is a bit violent. He was murdered by Orestes who executes the will of Hermione.
Phoenix is the governor of Pyrrhus.
Hermione is the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen. She was first betrothed to Orestes, but promised his father Pyrrhus is infatuated with her. Proud to pride, jealous of the glory of Andromache, she is humiliated by the contempt and the felony of Pyrrhus loves it naively. The violence of his anger at the extent of his anger causes him to handle Orestes to achieve his ends.
confidante Cleone is Hermione.
Menelaus, husband and father of Hermione Helen
Phoenix: Governor of Achilles, Pyrrhus then
III. General summary of the plot
the aftermath of the Trojan War, Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, is sent by the Greeks at the court of King of Epirus, Pyrrhus. He is charged with two prisoners claim: Andromache and her son Astyanax, the only descendant of Hector who may one day avenge his father and the destruction of Troy.
fell in love with his captive, Pyrrhus refuses to accede to the request of Orestes. As she refuses his advances, he threatens to deliver Astyanax if it continues not to marry. Now Orestes plays double game: he came primarily to bring with him the woman he loves, Hermione, daughter of Helen, which she has eyes only for Pyrrhus.
When Andromache, yielding to blackmail, accepts the marriage, Hermione, mad with jealousy, she warns Orestes will follow if he kills Pyrrhus. King of Argos runs. But when he reports to her Hermione act, it reacts violently and banished him from her presence. The reason of Orestes finally can not resist the story of the suicide of Hermione on the body of Pyrrhus.
IV. Abstract deed
The plot is simple: Orestes loves Hermione, who loves Pyrrhus, who loves Andromache who loves Hector, who is dead. The scene is
Buthrote, city of Epirus, Greece.
Act 1 - Orestes, the Greek ambassador, received from Pyrrhus, finds a faithful friend, Pylades. It comes in the name of Greece to come to require that Pyrrhus put to death Astyanax, Hector's son, lest he wants to one day avenge the defeat of Troy and the death of his father Hector , Prince of Troy. Pyrrhus refuses for the moment. But Orestes is also at the court of Pyrrhus, because the love of her life, Hermione is there. Pyrrhus then speaks Andromache, as she refuses him once more, he threatened to deliver Astyanax Greeks.
Act 2 - Orestes talks to Hermione. She also wants to go with him if Pyrrhus refuses to kill the child. Now Pyrrhus, who previously did not like Hermione to Orestes announces that it has decided to give him Astyanax Greeks and he'll probably marry Hermione.
Act 3 - Orestes is furious at losing definitely Hermione. Andromache pleads successively Hermione and Pyrrhus to save the life of his son. Pyrrhus is ready to change their minds if she agrees to marry him Andromache hesitates.
Act 4 - Andromache is determined to marry Pyrrhus to save his son and killed himself soon after by loyalty to Hector. Hermione is furious and asks Orestes to avenge reversals of Pyrrhus in the assassination.
Act 5 - Hermione regrets having demanded the death of Pyrrhus, she loves. Occurs Orestes: he has just accomplished the mission with which it has loaded. Hermione rewarded with insults. Orestes is running amok, struck by the curse of the Erinyes horrible. After repelling Orestes, Hermione kills himself on the corpse of Pyrrhus.
V. Themes
Love and hate are two themes are profoundly linked. Racine, love is passion, suffering, both for those who love for the beloved. Everyone loves that do not like: Orestes loves Hermione; it loves it loves Pyrrhus and Andromache. But it can not respond to his love, because her husband was killed by the father of Pyrrhus, Achilles.
love heroes is as strong as their frustration because they can not be loved in return. At Hermione, love is intimately linked to self-esteem. This causes the anger, jealousy and hatred that destroys and his entourage: Orestes kills Pyrrhus. The only love "pure" is that maternal love is to Andromache Astyanax.
fate. Racine's characters are not masters of their destiny, they carry with them. They sometimes reject as Orestes any responsibility for the Gods.
Fidelity is represented by Andromache that remains faithful to her late husband. This loyalty conflicts with the desire to save his son. It is indeed torn between her love for Hector and the threat of Pyrrhus who wants to kill her son if she did not marry her.
Madness. In Andromache, all the characters suffer and pathological behaviors: Hermione has a bloody rage; Orestes to kill Pyrrhus and will sink into total madness learning Hermione's suicide (Read Act V, scene 1, Hermione alone.)
Death is present throughout the tragedy. It serves as a backdrop: the death of Hector and massacre of the Trojans. It also constitutes action: Orestes comes to ask the death of Astyanax and Andromache wishes to commit suicide to save his son. Finally, the outcome is marked by the murder of Pyrrhus and Hermione's suicide.
Conclusion
Glossary difficult
Pathological : behavior of patients
Frustration: the anger, the fact of not being happy.
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