Agamemnon appears only briefly in the play, and comes across as a vindictive husband and an arrogant ruler. However, Clytamestra is no different. She is an arrogant woman with malicious intentions. Although we sympathize with her for much of the play, her evil actions remind us of her true self. Her involvement with Aegisthus and her murder of the innocent hapless Cassandra remind us that she is not an avenger but an adulteress and a murderer whose crimes cannot be justified.

When Clytamestra is informed that the war over Troy was won, she quickly and deceptively acts thrilled. She makes claims about how much she missed her husband and how faithful she has been to him. She says, “ May he return to find her true at hall, just as the day he left her, faithful to the last.” (601-602) Clytamestra knows that she has not been faithful, but she also knows that it is right and favored in society’s eyes when a woman is faithful. She has slept with Agamemnon’s cousin, aegisthus, for the past ten years and is very guilty of infidelity. Clytamestra tries to hide her adulteress ways, because she knows it does not reflect well on her and her ‘innocence.’ She goes so far as to glorify herself for her feigned fidel

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