The Importance of the Tutor in The Flies :: Lord Flies Essays

The Importance of the handler in The Flies   In Jean -Paul Sartes play, The Flies, the main character Orestes manages to lift a iniquity that has plagued the dwellers of Argos for decades. Both the current king of Argos and Zeus himself are perpetuating this nemesis for as long as possible for the curse keeps the people subservient and in a state of mourning and terror of their own actions two things that twain the king and Zeus favor in their rule over people. Orestes was actually a resident of Argos and is the first child of the Queen M opposite and the idle king. He returns to Argos with a traveling companion, the Tutor, who used to be the childs teacher in the ways of the world. Now the man is Orestes slave and close advisor. Orestes stance towards the Tutor and their past relationship essentially effects his ability to break the curse in Argos.   In a completely literary sense he was both a counselor for Orestes and a sort of Narrator to foregather in holes in d ialogue and the story line. Orestes background was the foundation for his decision-making in this play and Sartre had to find a way to let the audience realize what this background was, not only for a linear and complete plot, merely also as a testament to the thoughts themselves. The Tutor completed his usance in both senses, tying the plot together at the branch and the very end, and also moving the story along with gifts of advice and observations to Orestes. He close in a sense doesnt belong in the play. He is a complete contrast to all of the other characters other than maybe Orestes himself. And yet he seems to be a part of Orestes, like his conscious, his voice of indicate in this whole tribulation. As a character, the Tutor is much more(prenominal) complicated than one might assume upon first glance.   The Tutor as a person was fairly simple in his wisdom and ideas. He had no delusions, no emotional or religious ties, and no truth other than simple and deductive logic. As for personality traits, he was a skeptic, an atheist, and serve up a kind of detachment from the world and its people. He is an admitted skeptic of the world, revealing Orestes that he had been trained in skeptic irony (61).