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Electra is a circa 420–410 BCE play by Sophocles, translated in 1870 by R.C. Jebb. Electra, who is in mourning for her dead father and her long-absent brother, is aware of the intensity of her grief but believes it to be justified. Which quotation from Electra most effectively illustrates this claim?
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- 1'But never will I cease from dirge and sore lament, while I look on the trembling rays of the bright stars, or on this light of day.'
- 2'I know my own passion, it escapes me not; but, seeing that the causes are so dire, will never curb these frenzied plaints, while life is in me.'✓
- 3'Send to me my brother; for I have no more the strength to bear up alone against the load of grief that weighs me down.'
- 4'O thou pure sunlight, and thou air, earth's canopy, how often have ye heard the strains of my lament, the wild blows dealt against this bleeding breast, when dark night fails!'
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'I know my own passion, it escapes me not; but, seeing that the causes are so dire, will never curb these frenzied plaints, while life is in me.'
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