murdered‚ he plans to kill Claudius. Hamlet is not very eager to kill his uncle‚ he is not happy about the situation‚ and he does not act fast. Agamemnon is completely different than Hamlet. He rapes Clytemnestra and murders her husband. King Agamemnon did not stop there. After he marries Clytemnestra‚ he sacrifices their youngest daughter‚ Iphigenia‚ to gain favourable winds to take the Greek fleet to Troy. King Agamemnon seems to be more like King Claudius. Both of them killed the rightful King
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disturbing in play‚ since he is a vicious man so killed the previous king of Argos for the throne and marry the daughter‚ which is Clytemnestra. The other reasons are the sacrifices of Iphigenia to Artemis‚ and I just can’t conceive of killing his blood relative and in some point he didn’t even think a mercy to his daughter. Then another one is admiring the half sister of Clytemnestra‚ which is Helen. The last one is that having an affair to his concubine‚ Cassandra. I cannot imagine that returning to Argos
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Draw yourself a Venn diagram and use it to note similarities and differences between the two characters‚ Hamlet and Agamemnon. Do this on your own now and complete it thoroughly. As part of your analysis‚ consider how the following elements of tragedy are used in each play. (Remember‚ this is what you learned in Lesson 1.) Aristotle’s four components of tragedy: It involves someone of higher standing. This protagonist makes an error in judgement. This error results in suffering for the person. This
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Although Hamlet and Agamemnon both follow Aristotle’s definition of tragedy‚ I believe Hamlet is a more tragic play. Many more innocent lives were taken in Hamlet than Agamemnon. Hamlet‚ Gertrude‚ Ophelia‚ Polonius and Laertes were all killed due to Claudius’ deceptive and cheating ways. In Agamemnon‚ Cassandra and Iphigenia were the only innocent lives taken‚ both caused by Agamemnon’s lack of morals. The sheer number of deaths in Hamlet that were caused by unjust means and intentions brings
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Euripides IV - Iphigenia in Aulis p. 217 - 300 (83 pages) ---------------------------------------- All info up to 230 was lost. Just follow highlighted areas. ---- May fill in these blanks later--- RECALL THE INTRODUCTION -------------------------------------------- p 231 A lot more politically themed. Menelaus is accusing Agamemnon of feigning humility in order to gain political power and “market advancement.”He says he’s abandoned his old friends. ;/He is also saying that Agamemnon
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Muhammad Zaid Prof. Dr. Asim Karim 28 January 2013 FREE WILL IN GREEK TRAGEDIES ABSTRACT There are many occasions in the Greek tragedies where the characters are making decisions according to their own free will. They are not merely the puppets in the hands of fate and gods but their own motives surpass over all other influences. if they are performing any action or making any decision by following the gods even at that time their inner feelings and desires are there that compel them to act
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that they believe that their interpretations of topics are correct by creating a definite end. They have leaned toward the opinion that Orestes and Electra were justified in their actions‚ although Euripides was not as one sided since he allowed Clytemnestra to explain her actions and had Orestes question the idea of matricide and consider the possible consequences. Based on how The Eumenides and Orestes end‚ with Electra and especially Orestes escaping punishment‚ it can be concluded that the audience
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It seems that as readers‚ we are expected to feel an immense amount of rage towards Clytemnestra for murdering Agamemnon while feeling sympathy towards Electra due to her great amount of suffering as a result of it. However‚ almost every portion of this situation could be debated as whether such person was acting out of justifiable vengeance or some sort of self-advantage. Clytemnestra claims that she killed Agamemnon in order to make him pay for the sacrificing of their daughter‚ which
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Aristotle created the foundation for many literary works. He is known as the most influential Greek philosopher who wrote Poetics and Rhetorics‚ two concepts that are thought to be very significant in literary theory. He believed that a plot with reversal of situation‚ recognition‚ and transformation‚ is the greatest way to write a story or play. He defined plot as the arrangement of incidents and‚ according to him‚ tragedies where the outcome depends on a tightly constructed cause-and-effect
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city fifteen years after Aegistheus murdered his father. In the play‚ Orestes meets his sister Electra‚ who has waited for his arrival in order to avenge their father’s death. Eventually‚ Orestes kills King Aegistheus and his own mother‚ Queen Clytemnestra. Therefore‚ he and his sister see themselves confronted with the Furies‚ the goddesses of remorse. Only Orestes is capable of resisting their influence. However‚ this play has a much more profound meaning embedded within it. For instance‚ Sartre
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