What is the strongest case for the claim that Clytemnestra has a legitimate grievance? Agamemnon goes to war‚ for ten years and sacrifices his daughter to gain favorable winds. Clytemnestra is left for ten years to mourn and think about her husband killing her daughter in order to win a war. When we think about punishment‚ we think about people being judged and justice being served. In this case‚ Clytemnestra acts as both the judge and the jury. The party found guilty and justice is an eye for
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Euripides and Sophocles wrote their own versions of the Electra story. The basic plot is as follows: Agamemnon is killed by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus after he returns from the Trojan war to reclaim his sister-in-law Helen from the Trojans. Electra and her brother Orestes plot to kill their mother and her lover to revenge his death. Both authors wrote about the same plot‚ but the built the story very differently. Sophocles focused on Orestes‚ and Euripides focused more on the
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Agamemnon-Final Response The main theme in Agamemnon is revenge. It is clearly shown throughout the play and it is even seen in other works unrelated to the story. In order to get to war‚ Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter‚ Iphigenia. Clytemnestra‚ wants revenge‚ in the form of death‚ on Agamemnon after this event. In addition‚ she wants Agamemnon to die because he has had a mistress during the time he is at war‚ and because she wants to continue to have her affair with Aegisthus‚ Agamemnon’s
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to insure a safe voyage to Troy. When Agamemnon returns with his mistress Cassandra‚ his wife Clytemnestra welcomes him declaring how much she missed him and that she was faithful all this time. However‚ soon after his return‚ Clytemnestra avenges her daughter’s death by murdering her husband and his new concubine. The audience soon finds‚ though‚ that Clytemnestra not only killed her husband for revenge‚ but so she could be with Aegisthus whom she had been cheating on Agamemnon with. The reason for
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Fiorelis Guillen Lit 230‚ Section 6‚13 Professor Majeske November 14‚ 2013 Clytemnestra notices Orestes In 458 BC‚ Agamemnon was murdered by his own wife‚ Clytemnestra. Orestes‚ the son of Agamemnon‚ has come back home from exile to avenge Agamemnon’s death with his friend Pylades. Orestes cuts two locks of hair as an offering to a river in Argos‚ and also to the spirit of his father. After making these offerings‚ Orestes sees his sister Electra coming up to their fathers tomb‚ with the
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suffering the only way they know how. In addition‚ sometimes people seek their own justice for their suffering. There is always controversy about what is justified and what is not. In Oresteia‚ Aeschylus portrays suffering for many characters; however‚ Clytemnestra suffers the most. Therefore‚ Aeschylus illustrates Clytemnestra’s suffering when her husband is at war‚ and then to add to that suffering‚ the sacrifice of her daughter‚ so she murders Agamemnon claiming it was justifiable in avenge for
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his brother Atreus took control instead and in an act of revenge Thyestes sleeps with Atreus’ wife. Pretending to grant mercy‚ Atreus invites Thyestes out of exile to a great feast to set aside their differences. At this feast Atreus fools Thyestes into eating his two children‚ and because of this act Thyestes curses Atreus and his entire family for eternity. It is this one act that seals the fate of Agamemnon and even his wife Clytemnestra to a terrible death. The story of the Agamemnon focuses
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were expected to act compared to men. When King Agamemnon departed from Mycenae to siege Troy he tricked his wife‚ Clytemnestra‚ into sacrificing their daughter to the gods. During the ten years Agamemnon was gone Clytemnestra plotted with her lover‚ Aegisthus‚ revenge. Once King Agamemnon returned‚ he was murdered by the duo‚ but the gods deemed this act unacceptable. If Clytemnestra were a man the tale would have most likely ended here. But Apollo and Athena hid Orestes until he was of age and convinced
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Agamemnon is the first book in the Orenstein Trilogy written by the famous Greek tragedy writer‚ Aeschylus. Agamemnon is a story of justice and revenge. The story takes place in a city called Argos. It starts with a watchman tired of waiting for Agamemnon‚ the king of Argos who is away at the Trojan War. The city is eagerly awaiting the news of their king’s welfare and the outcome of the war. Watchmen are posted in the city‚ watching for the beacon that would report the capture of Troy and Agamemnon’s
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In Aeschylus’ tragedies The Persians and Agamemnon‚ the interactions between messengers sent forward by the army and the queens ruling the land in their king’s absence play a vital role in the plot structure of the ’return of the king’. The ’return of the king’ revolves around a chorus‚ anxiously hypothesizing about what could have possibly happened to their king‚ a queen awaiting her son or husband’s return‚ a messenger announcing both the king’s arrival and the outcome of the king’s conquests
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