The Flies — Jean-Paul Sartre Coleman’s Notes® Reader’s Companion | CN-070

Freedom, guilt, responsibility and the courage to choose.

Sartre’s The Flies takes the ancient story of Orestes and transforms it into a powerful drama about what it means to be free.

Orestes returns to Argos to discover a city dominated by fear and remorse. Its people have been taught to live beneath the burden of guilt, while King Aegistheus and the god Jupiter benefit from their submission. Orestes’ return sets in motion a confrontation not only with his family’s violent past but with the very ideas of authority, responsibility and human freedom.

This comprehensive Coleman’s Notes Reader’s Companion provides a clear, accessible and detailed guide to Sartre’s play.

The guide includes:

• Extended plot summary

• Detailed Acts I–III analysis

• Full character studies

• Orestes and Electra compared

• Jupiter, Aegistheus and authority

• Freedom, choice and responsibility

• Guilt, repentance and the Furies

• Sartre and existentialism

• Occupied France and the play’s historical context

• Greek myth background

• Symbols and motifs

• Dramatic technique

• Eight close readings

• Critical interpretations

• Comparative study

• 50 reading and discussion questions

• Ten key episodes and twenty key concepts

• Quick revision and essential reference

Whether you are encountering Sartre for the first time or returning to the play for deeper study, Coleman’s Notes helps you move beyond the plot to understand the ideas that give The Flies its continuing power.

49-page A5 Reader’s Companion.

Also available in French Literature Collection 2

CN-068 — The Plague — Albert Camus

CN-069 — The Stranger — Albert Camus

CN-070 — The Flies — Jean-Paul Sartre

CN-071 — No Exit — Jean-Paul Sartre

CN-072 — The Fall — Albert Camus

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