Lesson 1 Personal Response
Agamemnon
When Agamemnon first comes, he is talking about long time being away from home and final come back. He says he is just a mortal man. He does not want that people honor him for victory- but God. He is just human and God the one who has to be praised and honored. After discussion with Clytemnestra Agamemnon changes. He becomes unreasonable and arrogant. He changes his mind. We can see that he gets influence of other people very easy. Agamemnon feels that he is the one who deserves to be honored for victory. He walks proudly on the carpet and describes himself as a Chief and Lord.
Cassandra
Cassandra has a gift of prophecy. She brought by Agamemnon as a slave. She predicted that she will be dead but still goes to Agamemnon’s homeland fully aware what waits her there. Cassandra is the only person who clearly sees what is going on but tragically because of the curse nobody believe her. She is a victim. She accepts her destiny. She suffers in her life and sees death as an end of her pain.
Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra appears as a strong, fearless woman. She described as a “male strength heart” woman. After she killed her husband she is angry at the Chorus for being shocked of her murder. She does not understand how they judge her not her husband when he sacrificed their daughter. She has no fear or guiltiness for what she done. Nobody will make her pay for her murder, only if God wishes it. Only after her murder we can feel how much pain and how much she sacrificed in her life. All her life she wanted revenge, she could not forget and forgive her husband for sacrificing their daughter. Finally, at the end when she killed her husband, she says: “A sweet new taste of joy that know no fear”. By killing her husband she wanted release her pain. She feels joy that she had her revenge.
Clytemnestra definitely most powerful character in this play for me. She is such a bright character with very strong personality. She lived her life with so much pain after her husband
When Agamemnon first comes, he is talking about long time being away from home and final come back. He says he is just a mortal man. He does not want that people honor him for victory- but God. He is just human and God the one who has to be praised and honored. After discussion with Clytemnestra Agamemnon changes. He becomes unreasonable and arrogant. He changes his mind. We can see that he gets influence of other people very easy. Agamemnon feels that he is the one who deserves to be honored for victory. He walks proudly on the carpet and describes himself as a Chief and Lord.
Cassandra
Cassandra has a gift of prophecy. She brought by Agamemnon as a slave. She predicted that she will be dead but still goes to Agamemnon’s homeland fully aware what waits her there. Cassandra is the only person who clearly sees what is going on but tragically because of the curse nobody believe her. She is a victim. She accepts her destiny. She suffers in her life and sees death as an end of her pain.
Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra appears as a strong, fearless woman. She described as a “male strength heart” woman. After she killed her husband she is angry at the Chorus for being shocked of her murder. She does not understand how they judge her not her husband when he sacrificed their daughter. She has no fear or guiltiness for what she done. Nobody will make her pay for her murder, only if God wishes it. Only after her murder we can feel how much pain and how much she sacrificed in her life. All her life she wanted revenge, she could not forget and forgive her husband for sacrificing their daughter. Finally, at the end when she killed her husband, she says: “A sweet new taste of joy that know no fear”. By killing her husband she wanted release her pain. She feels joy that she had her revenge.
Clytemnestra definitely most powerful character in this play for me. She is such a bright character with very strong personality. She lived her life with so much pain after her husband