I found it interesting, in book three, when Aeneas tries to make a roof for the alter. He plunges his knife into this tree and "dark crimson blood ran out of the ripped bark" (3.47). I was not expecting that. Polydorus speaks from the tree and tells Aeneas he is one of his own. This had happened several years before Aeneas sought to build a new city, yet the way Polydorus's spirit (I would say spirit?) is still in the very land of greed where he was murdered speaks volumes. In all the works we have read I sense a reoccurring theme of injustice. The people who have been wronged in life and through death have spirits that just cannot leave, and eventually the injustice done to them has to be revealed. In the Eumnides, Orestes's mother's spirit will not rest because she wants her son brought to justice.
I commented on Nate's and Dallas's.
There is definitely a recurring theme of injustice. I believe that this is still evident in today's society. It is interesting to see the differences in the injustice from work to work.
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