![]() ![]() The establishment of a court system in which citizens voted on the outcome of fellow citizens clearly demonstrates this sense of communalism. According to Goldhill an obligation or ‘commitment to the polis’ was a popularly held sentiment and the citizens of Athens in particular felt that there was ‘an ought to act sentiment’ for the good of the polis instead of themselves. This also pairs well with the cultural context of Athens at the time this play was written. ![]() He pulls his readers to a profound shift in the conception of justice from the ‘doer must suffer to the more legalistic ‘doer must be tried’. He presents the age-old “an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth” theory in the first two plays. But he is very particular that such an imposing presence is not omnipotent. ![]() Aeschylus, the past master of theatrical techniques, has, throughout three plays, brought out the invisible hands of the gods that are Omnipresent in the life of every Athenian or every human being. It is done, with the great genius of thought and skill of craft. “There is a divinity that shapes our ends” is the feeling evoked in us as we course through the Aeschyllian trilogy, and we may be quite sure that this feeling was placed in our innermost core, not inadvertently, but purposefully. ![]()
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