... When she dies and we see the gratitude and the suffering of those who her touched, it really is upsetting. However, her noble and ultimate sacrificed is rewarded as the hero Heracles rescues her spirit from he underworld and she is restored back to life. Alcestis is a character that we can sympathise with fully. 'Electra' is a play where we find it hard to sympathise with anyone. Electra bullies her brother into murdering their mother. Orestes seems noble but actually does kill Clytemnestra and Clytemnestra had seemingly good reason to kill Agamemnon but it all could be discovered excuses for wanting to be with another man. A play where all the characters are at fault, some would interpret as. This means that there aren't any characters to sympathise with just elements or past situations that we can sympathise with if we think them through fully enough. In 'Hecabe', we can sympathise ...

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