she ded
----
-
### Chorus
Represents pain, magnitude of people. Represents Women of Troy (society). Pleads to Ancient Greeks.
### Helen
Imprisonment. Manipulative. Self-serving.
+
+## Imagery
+
+### Water / Nautical
+
+> "flow with the stream, let the new wind fill our sails, not breast a rinning tide with our fragile prow" (p.9)
+
+- start of play - Poseidon abandons ship
+- water becomes symbol of comfort/peace for women (constant/familiar)
+- symoblism of bodies of water = tears
+
+### Dark & light
+
+### Violence
+
+> "it degrades the decency of speech to put such things into words" (p.53)
+
+- animalistic depictions of Hecuba
+- graphic violent passages (e.g. Astyanax's body - p.35, p.51)
+- uncharacteristic of artistic norms at time of writing
+- comment on brutality/senselessness of war
+- lost innocence/peace/humanity/honour (symbol of Astyanax)
+- loss of common sense / perversion of nature & morality
+- no positive outcome of violence without sacrifice of morality/humanity (e.g. Talthybius)
+- appeal to Athenian audience incl. children
+- war effects everyone (e.g. Astyanax) therefore everyone should see the brutal outcome
+- acknowledgement that children should not be involved
+