The Flies evoke guilt from those who committed them. Sartre does this to reiterate the importance of amenability; he wants to prove that remorse should only be felt if one believes the act committed is wrong. By acting in what he believes to be a righteous way and killing the king and queen, Orestes takes responsibility for his actions without feeling any remorse for them. The Flies The Flies () is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth, previously used by the Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. The play recounts the story
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis of Psychoanalysis" in 1967; while among his later, more literary writings were "Windows" and "Crossing the Shadows". His 1993 autobiography, "Love of Beginnings", was deliberately ahistorical, emphasising what he called "holes" in discourse, where the process of slipping through or evading set formats and ways of thinking opened up new beginnings: "When words fail, it is because, without realising it, one is about to touch a different earth". Jean-Bertrand Pontalis Jean-Bertrand Pontalis [Jibé] (15 January 1924 – 15 January 2013) was a French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst. A student of Jean-Paul Sartre, Pontalis became a professor of philosophy in