Libation Bearers
Libation Bearers “All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both” (Kauffman). Aeschylus, a 5th century playwright, known for tragedies, seemed to be an optimist at heart. In his trilogy of tragedies, Oresteia, the struggle between good versus evil and right versus wrong and the impossible outcome in the end reflects this optimism (Fagle). The conflict in Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers is a struggle between good and evil in which the only resolution is paradoxical. Aeschylus illustrates the movement from evil to good in a triad of darkness to dawn to light (Fagle).