... . ( Ghastly' of course from the perspective of male chauvinists!) The fact that she launches an intense protest against her husband Agamemnon's cruel decision to sacrifice their daughter Iphigenia holds no ground to the Greek audience and the other characters of the play. Her own son Orestes later kills her. To him, avenging his father's murder is all-important and the hideous ... friends. To such life glory belongs. (805-8) She aspires for all those things, which have traditionally been the undisputed domain of men. Whereas, almost all the other female characters live under the shadow o...

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