A Feminist Exploration of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Euripides’ Elektra

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dc.contributor.advisorFarmer, Matthew C.
dc.contributor.authorPak, Celine
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-04T15:17:06Z
dc.date.available2023-12-04T15:17:06Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis paper engages with two Black feminist theorists, Audre Lorde and Saidiya Hartman, in order to identify a liberatory methodology with which one can create a positive reading of Elektra and Clytemnestra, the two central female figures within Euripides’ Elektra. The paper focuses particularly on the effects of language and narrative on one’s perceived reality, and attempts to center each woman’s words, even as their words and narratives affect one another. In doing so, the final goal of the paper is to look at the mother-daughter relationship between the two characters as a whole, and the tragic effects of that relationship that inundate the play.
dc.description.awardThe Daniel Gillis and Joseph Russo Prize
dc.description.sponsorshipHaverford College. Department of Classics
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10066/50036
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rights.accessTri-College users only
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.titleA Feminist Exploration of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Euripides’ Elektra
dc.typeThesis
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