Gaining Justice In Michalis Kakogiannis 'Electra'

The consequences of acting out in vengeance and taking justice in one’s own hand can bring long lasting and regrettable repercussions, but it can also bring about the restoration of natural justice. These two parallel possibilities are portrayed in the ancient Greek film Electra by Michalis Kakogiannis and the play Hamlet by Shakespeare. These two texts differ in the extent to which the protagonists tried to carry out justice; causing readers to question, ‘Can one go too far in trying to achieve justice?’ The cause for injustice in both texts was the prevalence of selfish ambition over morals and ethics, however it was the extent to which revenge was carried out which affected the unravelling of both texts. Revenge runs its common thread through