Julia D ELECTRA

In reading Euripides and Sophocles Electra I was tempted to title my meditaion “can somebody please slap Electra?”But I realized her response would,and is throughout the plays, very similar to Leo in the producers.

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Leo Bloom: I'm hysterical! I'm having hysterics! I'm hysterical! I can't stop when I get like this. I can't stop. I'm hysterical. Oh my god. Ah-la-la-la.
[Bialystock throws a glass of water in Leo's face]
Leo Bloom: [stunned] ... I'm wet! I'm wet! I'm hysterical and I'm wet!
[Bialystock slaps Leo]
Leo Bloom: ...I'm in pain! I'm in pain, and I'm wet!... and I'm still hysterical!

Like the play the Producers Sophocles makes frequent use of humor as well as irony.

My favorite lines in any of the Electra’s are 66-69 in Sophocles

“But say I’m wrong and you are right say he offered her up for Menelaos’ sake, must you then murder him? And by what law? Take care, or in issuing this decree You issue yourself remorse and death for if a killer merits death you must die next to satisfy that justice Take care, you offer lies for pretext.”she goes on to say even in my words it is your deeds that talk.”.I disagree with the assertion in the intro that dramatic impact is more important then ethical significance to Sophocles. He deals with ethics in a diffrent way then Euripdes but without a sense of ethics the irony is lost. Sophocles tells us that ethics do not exist in a void. You must think. You must listen.. Like in the Cherry Orchard there is a mix of subtly and absolute bluntness and both plays share repeated versions of the phrase “why don’t you listen? Sophocles makes sure we take certain the grains of truth vengeance can be self destructive.He does not emphasis as much as Euripdes this issue on a global scale but that is because he want’s us to think to apply it rather then just memorize.