... going into characters emotions and how they will affect the audience. Furthermore, in studying Aeschylus's Agamemnon we can see something very different from Oedipus the King but with the same idea that violence is not the center of the tragedy and does not have to be staged. In Agamemnon, unlike Oedipus the King the chorus does not give such a vivid description but we do have the ... audience whereas for an audience In Athens, it's possible they would not have even flinched. Therefore I am drawing upon the conclusion that what becomes the center of a tragedy depends upon its time, for ...

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... are truly dramatic and clever. Her first speech contains light imagery, she clearly sees hope amidst darkness "the blaze went dancing on to ecstasy", "torch", "glowing" upon hearing the news of Agamemnon's arrival and this is summed up when she says "it brings dawn to the black widow's face". Clytaemnestra speaks confidently and with no inhabitations "Good-bye to all that glad ... no need for dreams. Clytaemnestra talks about war and being at peace and satisfied at the end of it which is of course use of her clever dramatic irony but then in another speech by the chorus they talk about ...

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... as a medium for Aeschylus" brilliant rhetoric in Agamemnon. Clytaemestra's rhetoric not only invokes vivid imagery, but also confuses and perverts spheres of logic and rhetoric: sacrifice with murder, liquids with cloth, and blood with wine. These images overturn the values and traditions of her society, symbolized by the chorus, by joining spheres that were customarily kept ... separate. Aeschylus" perversion of values through the confusion of rhetorical spheres gives Clytaemestra ultimate power in the play and throughout the trilogy. One of the ways Aeschylus builds Clytaemestra's pow...

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... the use of traps and nets. In the Oresteia, what is normally the hunt of animals for the consumption and survival of human beings is combined with war also, resulting in negative connotations to the word. With the combination of the two independently good ideas, war and hunting, there is a result of the idea of war being a hunt of human beings. It seems to the chorus in the beginning of the Agamemnon that the ... war over Helen of Troy has made ... not only the city of Priam a victim of the Greek armies, but according to ... ...

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... themselves legitimately tend to be personified as animals. This statement is justly proven throughout Agamemnon through the use of several different animal symbolisms. One in particular is the lion. The lion can be seen as a powerful animal, as well as be noted for its slyness and deceitful tendencies. This "king of beasts" is known to be a bloodthirsty creature that is ruthless and threatening. Lions ... are also said to be protective, social beasts, and this seemingly contradictory trait is mirrored in some of the characters. In Agamemnon, Aeschylus makes known the similarities betwee...

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... themselves legitimately tend to be personified as animals. This statement is justly proven throughout Agamemnon through the use of several different animal symbolisms. One in particular is the lion. The lion can be seen as a powerful animal, as well as be noted for its slyness and deceitful tendencies. This "king of beasts" is known to be a bloodthirsty creature that is ruthless and threatening. Lions ... are also said to be protective, social beasts, and this seemingly contradictory trait is mirrored in some of the characters. In Agamemnon, Aeschylus makes known the similarities betwee...

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... , Apollo represented the ideal of young, vigorous manhood. He is considered to be the embodiment of the Hellenic spirit to many Greeks, as he embodied order against barbarism and reason against unreason. Both the Greek and Roman culture use the name "Apollo " to address his deity, though his Roman counterpart slightly differs from the Greek idea of Apollo. In Roman literature, Apollo was the ... son of Jupiter and Latona, with his sister Diana. He was considered the chief cherisher and protector ... would be a prophetess that no one would believe. In the future, Cassandra became filled ...

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... three massive playwrights that survived, Aeschylus (525-456BC), Sophocles (ca. 495-406BC), and Euripides (ca. 485-406BC). One of Aeschylus' works was, The Oresteia (485BC.), which was a trilogy. The three plays were Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. The theme of the plays was about justice. He also introduced the second character to the stage.. Another playwright was Sophocles. He was ... most famous for three of his tragedies, Antigone, Electra, and Oedipus Rex. He was fascinated in divine justice. His tragedies focused on the connection between ... the community and its ind...

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... , there he is defenseless. Clytaemnestra carries out the sentence that she sees just by slashing Agamemnon with a sword three times. Then she kills Cassandra, Agamemnon's concubine he received for defeating Troy, whom she sees as a nuisance if left alive. Medea, on the other hand does not use brute force at first to kill like Clytaemnestra, instead she uses what she knows best, poison ... own eyes, she was an executioner. She has punished a murderer, a murderer of his own child, he murdered for the Thracian winds, she feels it needs no explanation (Hamilton 255). She feels it is anAct fo...

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... Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, The Orchestra, Agamemnon, and The Prometheus (Smith). Among them is most famous work, Agamemnon. Aeschylus's plays held a recurring set of traits. Each character was clear and direct, the plays usually consisted of reconciliation after guilt and punishment have taken place (trumbull). He also removed all killing from view of the audience (bates). The characters wore more elaborate ... play writing, Helen and the Cyclops come close to comedies(theater history 1). Instead of his plays representing epic heroes of the past, his characters represe...

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... right to bring destruction on the Greek army to avenge Agamemnon's insults, nor Odysseus' slaughter of the entire younger generation of the Ithacan aristocracy. Sophocles' Ajax sees nothing wrong in his attempt to kill the commanders of the army for denying him the armor of Achilles; his shame springs simply from his failure to achieve ... , then, but since she is also a woman, she cannot prevail by brute strength; she must use deceit. She is, as she admits herself, a "clever woman,"" and this cleverness she uses to deceive everyone in the play, bending them to her purpose. Creon is trick...

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