Andromaca, de Jean Racine Andromaque, or Andromache, widow of Hector, held captive by Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, king of Epirus. Oreste, or Orestes, son of Agamemnon. Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen, betrothed to Pyrrhus. Pylade, or Pylades, a friend of Oreste. Cleone, or Cleone, confidante of Hermione. Cephise, Cephisa, confidante of Andromaque. Phoenix, mentor to Achilles, and then to Pyrrhus. !! See also main article. De la curs: Andromaca era sotia lui hector, eroul care s-a dus sa se bata pentru Troia. Erau cel mai frumos cuplu, asa cum este descris si in Iliada lui Homer. Luata roaba de Pyrus, care se indragosteste de ea si o cere de nevasta. Nu vrea sa auda dar el ii promite protectie pentru copil. Intr-o zi, o delegatie greceasca vine la Pyrus si ii cere copilul Andromacai sa-l ucida, ca sa nu ramana urmasi ai lui Hector. Ea refuza sa-l dea pe Asteamax si primeste casatoria cu Pyrus, care semneaza o obligatie scrisa ca nu va da copilul grecilor. Insa Pyrus este ucis de un grec important pentru a ajunge la copil. Regina ramane Andromaca in locul lui si salveaza si copilul. Personaje pasionale. Hermiona care venise sa se casatoreasca cu Pyrus, innebuneste. Glorificarea echilibrului interior - Andromaca este singura care invinge. ------------ - legatura cu Hecuba (sotia lui Priam), soacra Andromacai, mama lui Hector Act 1: Oreste, Greek ambassador, arrives at the court of Pyrrhus, supposedly to convince him on behalf of the Greeks to put Astyanax, the son of Andromaque and Hector, to death, for fear that he may one day avenge Troy. Actually Oreste hopes Pyrrhus will refuse, so Hermione will return to Greece with him. Pyrrhus refuses at first, then, upon being rejected by Andromaque, he threatens to turn Astyanax over to the Greeks. Act 2: Oreste speaks to Hermione, who agrees to leave with him if Pyrrhus allows it. However, Pyrrhus, heretofore uninterested in Hermione, announces to Oreste that he has decided to marry her, and that he will give him Astyanax. Act 3: Oreste is furious over having lost Hermione for good. Andromaque begs Hermione to influence Pyrrhus to spare her son, but Hermione, insanely proud, refuses her. Pyrrhus agrees to reverse his decision if Andromaque will marry him. She hesitates, unsure of what to do. Act 4: Andromaque resolves to marry Pyrrhus in order to save her son, but intends suicide as soon as the ceremony is over, so that she remains faithful to her late husband Hector. Hermione asks Oreste to avenge her scorn from Pyrrhus by killing him. Act 5: Hermione regrets asking for Pyrrhus' death. Before she can cancel her request, Oreste appears and announces that Pyrrhus is dead, though not at Oreste's hand - his Greeks became enraged when Pyrrhus recognized Astyanax as king of Troy. She thanks him with wild insults and runs off to kill herself on Pyrrhus' body. Oreste becomes crazed and has a vision of the Furies. Unlike the majority of Racine's plays, Andromaque has never gone out of vogue, and the tragedy is among the most venerable works of the Comedie-Francaise's repertoire. It is also the most often read and studied classicist play in French schools. Jacques Rivette's four-hour film L'Amour fou centers around rehearsals of a production of Andromaque. Background During the Trojan War, Achilles killed Andromache's husband Hector. The Greeks threw Andromache and Hector's child Astyanax from the Trojan walls for fear that he would grow up and avenge his father and city. Andromache was made a slave of Achilles' son Neoptolemus. Euripides dramatised these events ten years after Andromache in his tragedy The Trojan Women (425 BC). Years pass and Andromache has a child with Neoptolemus. Neoptolemus weds Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen. Even though Andromache is still devoted to her dead husband Hector, Hermione is deeply jealous and plots her revenge. Fearing for her life and the life of her child, Andromache hides the child and seeks refuge in the temple of Thetis (who was the mother of Achilles). Andromaca lui Euripide - rezumat Clinging to the altar of the sea-goddess Thetis for sanctuary, Andromache delivers the play's prologue, in which she mourns her misfortune (the destruction of Troy, the deaths of her husband Hector and their child Astyanax, and her enslavement to Neoptolemos) and her persecution at the hands of Neoptolemos' new wife Hermione and her father Menelaus, King of Sparta. She reveals that Neoptolemos has left for the oracle at Delphi and that she has hidden the son she bore him (whose name is Molossos) for fear that Menelaus will try to kill him as well as her. A Maid arrives to warn her that Menelaus knows the location of her son and is on his way to capture him. Andromache persuades her to risk seeking the help of the king, Peleus (husband of Thetis, Achilles' father, and Neoptolemos' grandfather). Andromache laments her misfortunes again and weeps at the feet of the statue of Thetis. The p�rodos of the chorus follows, in which they express their desire to help Andromache and try to persuade her to leave the sanctuary. Just at the moment that they express their fearfulness of discovery by Hermione, she arrives, boasting of her wealth, status, and liberty. Hermione engages in an extended ag�n with Andromache, in which they exchange a long rhetorical speech initially, each accusing the other. Hermione accuses Andromache of practising oriental witchcraft to make her barren and attempting to turn her husband against her and to displace her. "Learn your new-found place," she demands. She condemns the Trojans as barbarians who practise incest and polygamy. Their agon continues in a series of rapid stichomythic exchanges. When Menelaus arrives and reveals that he has found her son, Andromache allows herself to be led away. The intervention of the aged Peleus (the grandfather of Neoptolemus) saves them. Orestes, who has contrived the murder of Neoptolemus at Delphi and who arrives unexpectedly, carries off Hermione, to whom he had been betrothed before Neoptolemus had claimed her. The death of Neoptolemus is announced. The goddess Thetis appears as a deus ex machina and arranges matters.