#This isn't a complaint btw I like it and I like the way Jennifer Saint handles it in Elektra | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chronomally · 1 year ago

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Another thing I like about Jennifer Saint's writing is how comfortably she embraces different versions of the same myth. Clytemnestra has the "truth" of Iphigenia's death as she witnessed, while her children and the people of Mycenae have the version(s) they're comfortable with. How did Paris actually spirit Helen away from Sparta? No one knows because no one was there to see it, nor do we have Paris' or Helen's point of view to tell us, so all that's left is a swirl of rumors and Clytemnestra's own fears

#please feel free to ignore this #I'm reading Elektra #I'm realizing as I'm reading this that I don't think I've ever seen anyone try to write from Helen's POV #I think the inscrutability of her is important #What is she thinking? Why does she do what she does? We don't know except that it was Fate and the will of the gods #This isn't a complaint btw I like it and I like the way Jennifer Saint handles it in Elektra #Clytemnestra is so close to her sister but finds her a mystery at times and pins it on Helen being a daughter of Zeus #vs. Clytemnestra being fully mortal

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