The Flies is a play by French Existentialist philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, retelling the Greek myth of Orestes and Electra with added themes of human freedom, guilt and the imposition of societal values. Electra and Orestes' mother Clytemnestra murdered their father, Agamemnon, and married Aegisthus. When Orestes arrives, the siblings kill their mother and flee to the temple of Apollo, where they are haunted by the Furies and the Gods. Electra repents to Zuess, but Orestes refuses to, claims human autonomy, forgives the townspeople and exiles himself with the Furies.
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