What Is Agamemnon Justified?

A more challenging question to ask may perhaps have been how are the characters in the play of Agamemnon justified; or maybe how does the story of Agamemnon’s characters portray nonuniversal atribuibles. As for the latter, I would very much enjoy debating how the story and its characters lack universal appeal. Just in class here are a few topics that have been discussed: who holds more credence for justice, humans or god(s)? Can someone justify their own actions? How can revenge cause problems? and the responsibilities of married couples, just to list a few. All of these themes, which do not even begin to cover half of the themes that can be attributed to this play, are all universal ideas and thoughts. Just as Agamemnon’s wife wishes to have her actions justified as well as her emotions towards her husband. The evidence for this: come in how Clytemnestra question who is more right, the

Clytemnestra justifies herself and even over what the gods want, she also breaks the bond of marriage by cheating on her husband. The idea of people cheating on each other and treating to say that it's the other person’s fault for not being around is something still used even to this day. The later part of this is revenge, as the culture of the time and how it is now is that not remaining faithful to one’s husband is a sin or just down right against morals. I felt as though, Agamemnon's death was just the first part of his wife’s revenge, I took her cheating as the first part. I based this off the knowledge of how the culture was set up at the time. however, the revenge is not just Clytemnestra’s, as it also was a moving point for her lover. This idea of revenge being a curse or part of a curse is not just a play point, but actually speaks to the human race itself. As it suggest that harboring anger or contempt towards someone or something only leads to hurting or dooming one’s own