WORLD_PEACE_REQUIRES_THE_TRANSFORMATION_OF_THE_FURIES_INTO_EUMENIDES
Aeschylus’s play, The Eumenides, is the best model for demonstrating the power of the poet as an “unrecognized legislator”, causing the spectator to discover how to increase the energy-flux density of his mind in order to secure world peace. However, the historical intention of ruling oligarchies has always been to prevent that power from ruling human society by using retribution instead of compassion as a means of reducing the human population through war, famine, and disease.
Aeschylus’s intention in The Eumenides was to demonstrate how mankind is capable of putting an end to cycles of vengeance such as religious wars, and thus, extirpate revenge from the idea of justice and restoring to justice the power of reason. Aeschylus’s play is written to deliberately provoke the thoughtful member of the audience to judge whether he is able to stop the infernal cycle of violence and adopt a benevolent state of mind for the benefit of all of mankind. The subject of the play is how the Furies can be transformed into the Eumenides.
