Thus, to take one example: recently I re-read the Electra of Sophocles, and was amazed
by the depth with which it uncovered the degradation into a
creature consumed by, indeed virtually living
by, the hatred which possesses her, of a woman who initially had simply refused to compromise with truth, and to pretend the situation at the court of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra to be
other than itself.