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‘In the play Electra is seen passing through the whole range of human emotions – from passionate love to cruel hatred, from numb despair to wild joy. There is debate over whether the play depicts virtue triumphant or, rather, portrays a young woman incurably twisted by years of hatred and resentment.’

[– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20]: 394]

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