Clytemnestra Essays

strong and took the roles of their husbands while the men left to fight in the Trojan War. These two women were Penelope, wife of Odysseus, and Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon. These two women were different in how they chose to rule while their husbands were at war and how they acted once they got back. Penelope is considered to be the good wife and Clytemnestra is portrayed as the bad wife, for several reasons. Although it may be not be clear, the differences between being a good wife or a bad wife

Clytemnestra is the wife of Agamemnon and Queen of Argos. Agamemnon is a play by Aeschylus that tells of her deathly plot against Agamemnon, who murdered their daughter, Iphigenia. Along with her lover, Aegisthus, Clytemnestra takes revenge for her daughter and claims the throne of Argos. She is tormented by disrespect, betrayal, and grief, which combine to be the driving force for her actions. While Agamemnon is off fighting the Trojan war, Clytemnestra rules Argos in his place. However, throughout

Aeschylus’ The Agamemnon displayed how man’s thirst for power can lead him to commit heinous crimes. The decisions of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra were difficult but not justified, because they derived from selfish intentions and the sin of hubris. Agamemnon’s crime occurred because he could not bear the thought of losing power while Clytemnestra sought to gain it through the use of’ deception. Aeschylus showed that they had committed morally unjust crimes against nature by depicting their true intentions

that is filled with conflict, and malice. In the first play, Agamemnon, The king Agamemnon and his wife Clytemnestra are at ends because Agamemnon killed their daughter. Although Agamemnon has his own flaws and sins, I think that he is a better person than Clymestrea. But what does it mean to be a good person? I think that a good person is someone who is selfless, loyal, and loving. Clytemnestra shows none of these traits. Agamemnon was selfless. This is apparent when he sacrificed his daughter.

play was first written in 458 B.C. it was a time where the male was shown as the superior role over females. Even though they are portrayed as the better gender in this play, the women make it interesting and are shown to have more intelligence. Clytemnestra is very interesting in the trilogy; she wants to avenge the loss of Iphigenia. The daughter of Agamemnon was lost due to the King trying to please Artemis so him and his troops can pass to Troy. She later kills Agamemnon for this by strategically

he play begins with a peasant’s brief recap of some of the background story: how the vengeful Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon on his return from the seige of Troy, and now rules over Argos with her lover, Aegisthus; how Electra’s brother Orestes was sent away by the insecure Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, and put under the care of the king of Phocis, where he became friends with the king's son, Pylades; and how Electra herself was also cast out of the royal house and married off to a farmer, a kind man

support who was more justified in avenging their father. Going over the characters stories is important in deciding on whose vengeance is more justified. First events in The Oresteia, in Agamemnon, Orestes father, Agamemnon was killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her new lover Aegisthus. The reason Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia, was to help himself and troops

demonstrates that a crime committed cannot go without the proper justice served. As read in Agamemnon, Clytemnestra believed she had to take matters into her own hands and get justice for her daughter because he was away at war for ten years, sacrificed their daughter Iphigeneia, and was unfaithful to Clytemnestra. This form of justice served was also seen when Orestes slayed his mother, Clytemnestra and her lover in The Libation Bearers, due her killing Agamemnon. Both of Aeschylus' plays show the

shows the never ending cycle of violence within the house of Atreus. The cycle acts as a “net” entrapping Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, and many other characters. This net has not only encapsulated characters but it also produces actions throughout the play provoking the audience to think of several different conflicted loyalties. Specifically, the rendezvous between Clytemnestra and the chorus highlights right versus wrong, self-help justice (in the form of revenge) versus justice by trial, and

readers forget about what Clytemnestra and Cassandra experience. Clytemnestra endures the pain of her daughter’s death done by her husband. Cassandra endures the utter helplessness of her foreseen death executed by Clytemnestra. If readers can recognize Clytemnestra’s and Cassandra’s endurance then it will be easier to identify how Aeschylus expresses the themes of suffering, truth, and justice. This essay will show how Cassandra and Clytemnestra

After Agamemnon is killed by Clytemnestra, Orestes is called by the gods to avenge his father through the murder of his mother. Though Orestes seeks retribution for his father’s death, he is anxious, believing that by killing his mother and committing an atrocity against his own blood

One of the most well-known plays for revenge is Aeschylus, Agamemnon. Numerous events happen that lead up to insane outcomes. We first have King Agamemnon who murders his own daughter in order to satisfy a God and get wind so that his ship will sail to Troy. The outcome of his doing was that his own wife Clytaemnestra ended up murdering him. The insane thing is that Clytaemnestra not only murdered Agamemnon but also Cassandra, an innocent girl she just met. Clytaemnestra wasn’t the only one who

sacrifice of his daughter. This sacrifice would later turn his wife, Clytemnestra, against him, hunting him down for slaughter for justice and revenge just as he did his daughter (Aesch. Ag.). In the story of Choephoroi, that follows years after the death of Agamemnon continues the theme when the son Orestes returns from exile due to Apollo’s quest for justice and revenge against the murders. This story then turns the hunter Clytemnestra and his lover into the new prey as the children seek this

only leads to more anger and revenge. Several years after the king Agamemnon was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra, the man she had a relationship with was Aigisthos. His son Orestes returns home with Pylades to grieve his father’s death.

To begin, Clytemnestra demands for the crimson tapestries to be spread between the king and the palace doors, note that these are tapestries only fit for deities. Thankfully, Agamemnon notices this and begins to rebuke his wife for doing such a thing as if setting him up to commit a hubris act. Thus, he says, “Give me the tributes of a man and not a god, a little earth to walk on, not this gorgeous work” (lines 918 - 920). As he takes his stance against Clytemnestra she even begins to question

The actions of the play Libation Bearers by Aeschylus occurred in Argos after Clytemnestra killed her husband Agamemnon. Libation Bearers is like Sophocles’ Elektra regarding using the same myth and plot but differs with character development. Libation Bearers expands more on Orestes killing his mother rather than on Electra’s life after her father is killed like in Elektra. The play starts with Orestes calling out to the god Hermes asking him to protect him on his journey to carry out the deed to

Date Aeschylus Agamemnon The play Agamemnon is set with a watchman who is on duty at the Aragon’s place which is waiting for a signal to that announces the fall of the Troy as the sign of beacon flashes; he moves to pass this message to Queen Clytemnestra. The queen is seen to appear at the chorus when ordered to offer some thanksgiving sacrifice as she passes the beacon’s message on the fall of the Troy (Macintosh 234). The play has a protagonist, Agamemnon who is the King of Argos, as well as

The purpose of this essay is to argue why Orestes’ situation is tragic and how does Apollo affect it. I am going to argue that Orestes’ situation is tragic because is stuck in a cycle of violence whilst being influenced by Apollo’s power. Orestes puts his faith in Apollo declaring that “Apollo will never fail me, no, his tremendous power, his oracle charges me to see this trial through.” It is not necessarily through free will that he decides to trust Apollo but through fear of what will happen

Would Clytemnestra have been a more appropriate title than Agamemnon for the first play of the Oresteia? In the play 'Agamemnon', both Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra his wife, are the two essential characters that depict the most strain and energy throughout the play. The ruler of Argos being Agamemnon is a great deal less present as his part in the play is fighting in Troy and along these lines far from the genuine primary spot of activity, being in Argos where Clytaemnestra plots the killing of her

Avery Busta Ms. Windish English ll Nov. 11 2016 Agamemnon You may know Agamemnon as another one of those selfish rulers and kings of a place, with obnoxious behavior and a spoiled life. That inference may not be the case though. Reading this, you’re going to find out how Agamemnon became Agamemnon. Agamemnon was not just a special person in greek mythology for who he was known as, but rather for what he did that truly defined him. The birth of Agamemnon was unknown, but he was made by