Electra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles that tells the story of Electra and Orestes' revenge on their mother, Clytemnestra, who killed their father, Agamemnon, who sacrificed his daughter Iphegenia and returned from the Trojan War with a concubine named Casandra. Orestes pretends to have died in an accident and brings an urn supposedly carrying his ashes to the palace. After Electra mourns his death he reveals his true identity to her and they kill their mother and step-father, Aegisthus.
Mourning Becomes Electra is a tragic play set in New England in the aftermath of the Civil War. It is heavily interwoven with the common fixtures of Greek tragedy. A wealthy general is poisoned by his vicious and scheming wife, then avenged by his children Orin and Lavinia. When Orin kills himself out of grief, Lavinia is left in the shoes of Greek tragedy's Electra and struggles to find meaning in her bleak and solitary life.
CELIAS ELECTRA COMPLEX In Shakespeares As You Like It Celia the only daughter of the usurper Duke Frederick is a secondary participant in the central plot and so appears to lack the fullness and three dimensionality in character possessed by her cousin Rosalind However upon closer examination it can be seen that Shakespeare does bequeath Celia with a certain level of complexity In Celia Shakespeare shows his prowess in crafting fictional characters no matter how minor that possess a great deal