The conflict between Apollo and the Furies is framed as a conflict between young gods and old gods, human justice and the laws of the universe.
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Furies
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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In Jiang's reading of the Oresteia, Athena resolves the hung jury by voting for Orestes and then converting the feared Furies into civic figures of justice, truth, and righteousness.
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"...because he's killed his mother, there are these demons called the Furies who come up from the underworld, and they begin to haunt him,..."
"...and Apollo tries to intercede on behalf of Orestes. And the Furies say to him, you are a young god. You are a new..."
"So it's what we call a hung jury, okay? It was divided evenly. So what then happens now is, Athena comes in and says..."
"...is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing and again i'll just say because it's bewildering and more..."
"...hold themselves with clawing nails their itching had such force and fury and there was no other help and so that nails kept scraping..."
"...with Semele and thus against the Theban family had shown her fury time and time again. Then Athamas was driven so insane that seeing..."
"Her agony had so deformed her mind. But neither fury Theban Trojan ever was seen to be so cruel against another in rending beasts..."
"...this they butted each other like two rams such was their fury and one from whom the cold had taken both his ears who..."
"...and catching sight of us, he bit himself like one whom fury devastates within. Turning to him, my sage cried out, perhaps you think..."
"...his memory and so his shade down here is hot with fury how many up above now count themselves great kings who wall here..."
"...that is Electo, to syphonies between them. He was done. Each fury tore her breast with talent nails, each with her palms. Beats. She..."
"...and Donny cannot pass into this. And in fact, there are furies and Medusa who threaten them. OK, so what saves them is the..."
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