What is the symbolism of Orestes in the temple?

In the book The Eumenides, Orestes is in a temple and he has weapons in his hands, and his hands are all bloody, and there are these horrifying creatures all around him. I think this is his punishment for killing his mother, he has the weapons in his hand showing that he killed his mother and he has the blood symbolizing her blood from being murdered. The creatures might symbolize the torture and bad things that are being done to him as his punishment. I think he might be in a sort of symbolic hell. Orestes murders his mother because he wanted revenge, I think the symbolism here is not only did he kill his mother but he did it for the wrong reason. If he murdered her because he was being physically harmed by her, I don’t think he would have been put in this horrible place. Revenge is the wrong reason to want death for someone, well you shouldn’t want death for anyone, but you get my point. Revenge is a very big thing, and revenge is usually hate, and hate is a strong feeling. I’ve never hated anyone. Hate to me is not caring for a person, just not caring about if they live or die, or if they suffer. Hate is just a feeling I will never have for anyone because everyone was made by God, and God doesn’t make mistakes. 

Everyone has a purpose for the role they play in life, whether it be the kindest person in the world or a murderer, God put them there and I respect that. I will always love that person, but I can strongly dislike them, but never hate them. God asks that we love one another, but He never said we have to like each other, because there’s a difference. Love to me is wanting the best for someone no matter what they have done, and asking God to help them through life, love is more than liking someone, loving and respecting and liking and obeying kind of resemble the same thing to me. When you respect someone, you do more than just do what they tell you to do or listen and agree with them, you value what they say, and you place their thoughts and opinions higher than most people. Obeying is just doing what someone says or agreeing with what they say because they say it’s the right thing to do, you don’t have to respect them, you just act like you do. Orestes in the temple symbolized that he hated his mother, and he didn’t respect her, he wanted revenge because he didn’t truly care about her as a human. Humans are evil and cruel sometimes, but we were all made by God, and hating someone means you don’t respect what God made, we are all human, and at the end of the day we can all change, and everyone deserves a second chance, because God has given us more than a second chance, we all deserve less than what we have but that’s just who God is!

Work Cited

THE EUMENIDES. (458 BCE). : Aeschylus. https://hhamo.ignitiaschools.com/owsoo/studentAssignment/index?eh=398950349