 In Eliot's play, the Furies serve as embodiments of the remorse and guilt felt by Harry, who harbours a dark family secret, shared only with his sister.Bacon was captivated by Aeschylus' play, and keen to learn more about Greek tragedy, although he said many times that he regretted being unable to read the original in Greek.In 1942, he read the Irish scholar William Bedell Stanford's "Aeschylus in his Style", and found the theme of obsessive guilt in "The Oresteia" to be highly resonant.