Is justice in The Oresteia ever achievable?

When the jury is induced to vote the result is a tie . Athene must cast the deciding vote and considering that Athene belongs altogether to her father (256 she votes in favor of Orestes . She does not sympathize with Clytemnestra for she had no mother . When a statue of Zeus ' head was smashed Athene rose up out of the head , so she was never born . She frees Orestes by voting in his favor . The Furies believe the house of Justice is falling (240 , but Athene mollifies the Furies by renaming them The

Kindly Ones ' and promising that alters will be set up in Athens to rever ! ence the Furies . Athens welcomes the replacement of archaic autocratic justice with the new form of civic justice , in which an entire society unites to determine and enforce its conceptions of right and wrong . As Athene proclaims , In future time also there shall remain for the people of Aegeus forever this council of judges (251 Aeschylus ' The Oresteia intertwines a theme that is easily conceivable to those analyzing the plays for its universal meaning-justices progression through time . The Oresteia presents a logical progression of justice

The first play , Agamemnon is a play saturated with ambiguous characters like Clytemnestra and deadly finality . The revenge ethic is a method that Aeschylus uses to modify archaic beliefs and to show how those beliefs can be modified to appease everyone involved . The Choephoroe introduces a son , Orestes , who must battle with inner turmoil , as well as , the supernatural powers of the gods . He must kill his mother to avenge his father with the knowledge that he will inevitably be pursued by the Furies . Eumenides resolves all of the issues battling throughout the previous plays . Orestes is set free and the Furies are contented with their newly acquired veneration...