There are many tensions in the American society between mother and daughter. The play Electra has a very fine way of showing the enmity between mother and daughter. An enmity that would dare not touch the modern American society. Clytemnestra treats her own daughter as a slave and despises her for mourning her own father’s death. Electra speaks as a woman who has had enough of her mother’s tirades and always insults her to feel bad. Electra, in the play, mentions how she thinks of her mother. “You are no mother’s daughter, but a slave’s mistress…You and your paramour enforce on me a life of misery”(598-600)! Clytemnestra’s points of arguments for having revenge on Agamemnon are for killing his own daughter for the sake of the Greek army. What kid of a father sacrifices his own daughter? She argues that they could have killed Menelaus’s children because the whole war had started with his wife, Helen, being stolen by Paris. Not only did Clytemnestra get her revenge, she also mutilated Agamemnon’s body. Electra’s poin

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