There are several themes in common that are developed in The Oresteia and Leda and the Swan. I have chosen to focus on deception and justice. Deception and justice is central to both works. They show justice in many different forms, such as revenge, vengeance, divine justice and civil justice. Deception takes different forms as well, physical and verbal.
The theme of deception is most obvious in Leda and the Swan. Here deception takes on physical form. Yeats uses a swan as the metaphor because of its natural grace and beauty;. Swans are not often associated with being birds of vio…
