Jamie's Reviews > Andromache

The afterward notes that this is a play about love as a fatal illness, I believe it depicts love as a pure virtue. The three characters, Orestes, Pyrrhus and Hermione, who express unrequited love are each faced with tragedy in the end, but their feelings did not encapsulate true love. Their passions reached a point where they consented to inflicting harm on those they were pursuing in order to satisfy their own personal desires. It was only Andromache that expressed true love, for both her son and her lost husband Hector, and her pure steadfastness allowed her to live in the end.