Here’s a recap of the theme of my project: Recently thru a reading of “The Oresteia” trilogy, I picked up on something new that made me sit and pause for a while. What if the events of the second book (The Libation Bearers) started not because Apollo told Orestes to kill Clytemnestra, but rather because Orestes has some mental instability. To give a little more background: Clytemnestra had already killed her husband Agamemnon in the first part of the play before Orestes has come home. The shock of the news must have been devastating for Orestes to have dealt with and somehow he internalizes this by imagining that Apollo has told him to kill his mother (his subconscious telling him to avenge his father). I thought that this might be an interesting way to interpret “the will of the gods.”
For my project, I’m going to try and add coding to do a poem semi-randomly generated that will show what Orestes was feeling in his head when he heard Apollo speak to him or how he felt. There’s still a lot in the air at this time like can I add a coding box to WordPress, can I get the text to come in sideways (or better yet upside down and sideways), and what else can I do to make this project stand out? If coding becomes out to the question, we’ll shift to a first-person poem that shows what Orestes was thinking.
There are three things I want to do with the text project:
- Do something with coding to explore the medium
- Have control over what Orestes is thinking
- Display compromised emotions/ Someone who is emotionally unstable.
There will be additional things I may delve into with this project but first I need to complete or go forward with the task before I can do anything else.
Words As My Weapon 