Who wrote The Flies, an adaptation of the Electra myth?
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Correct answer: A. Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sartre's Les Mouches (1943), staged under the Occupation, makes Orestes an existentialist hero who frees Argos from Zeus and the Flies (the Furies) by owning his act.
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