... , innovative words to drive an image into the mind of his audience. Clytaemestra, notorious as a villain or perhaps an anti- heroine, effectively acts 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 ... have been linked with cloth; now the concept of language as a web, a trap, is layered upon these other ideas. Clytaemestra also confuses fertility with death in the presence o...

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... , and enters his palace unknowing of the dangers within, the reader expects his murder to take place soon and thus conclude the vengeance of Clytaemnestra. Aeschylus postpones the death of Agamemnon and, using Cassandra's character, furthers the suspense and emphasizes the significance of the action which is to take place. In the three hundred lines of dialogue that follows, Cassandra ... charred, the father gorging on their parts" (1095-1097), the breeding of Cassandra's and Aegisthus" vengeful spirit that is "growing, massing, deep in the house" (1102), the actual murder of Agamemnon, ...

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... 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 for act, wound for wound? (Agamemnon 1555), therefore it is just. In Euripides? Medea the chorus does not find fault with Medea for punishing Jason for what he had done. But they do find fault with ... could have been brought against the children, either by death or being outcasts for their involvement. Second, and most importantly, the sheer fact of causing Jason pain. It is not Agamemnon's unfaithfulness that has spawned Clytaemnestra's h...

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... -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 ... lack of self control and to the fact that Cassandra's murder was completely illegitimate. Clytamestra does not even try to give a good reason for killing Cassandra. She simply calls Cassandra Agamemnon's "spear-prize"and accuses her of sh...

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... " develops a new connotation, one that is perversely related to hunting humans with nets. Closely after this referral to hunting, we see the father, Agamemnon, sacrificing his daughter Iphogenia at the behest of the gods. What is truly significant about the passage of her sacrifice is how Aeschylus words the imagery ... hunted with the use of a net, it is by no means an accident on the part of the author. Also, right before the death of Agamemnon, Cassandra, a powerful and famous prophetess reveals her thoughts on Clytemnestra. Interestingly enough, she refers to the murderous wife as " s...

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... one. Clytemnestra is no exception to this rule; she feels that she must avenge the murder of her daughter by killing her husband, Agamemnon. When Agamemnon arrives from conquering Troy, Clytemnestra only wishes that "she will have victory'(pg47) She flatters him and attacks him through his greatest weakness, ... pride by treating him and giving him the welcome of a god, "I am to be glorified/ and great me as a man "(pg44).Agamemnon realizes that Clytemnestra is not only treating him very well because he is returning home a victor but also that he is just returning alive. After ... husba...

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... to save the lives of two angels. Both stories show the lack of respect for their daughter as well as their wives. Agamemnon and Lot, both wanted to preserve themselves by killing innocents. Consequences come when one chooses to abuse their power. Not only did ... that she only wanted Aegisthus because he was weak. She appeared to only want him because he was, probably, one of a few who wanted vengeance against Agamemnon and wouldn"t ask to many questions. Felt she was doing the law and revenge was not an option. She was like a child who demands something right ... death by his power hu...

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... action in the play and her most important characteristic is, like the watchman calls it, "male strength of heart." Later in the play after Clytemnestra murders her husband, Agamemnon, and his concubine, Cassandra, she reveals her driving force that has spurned all of her actions up to this point. Clytemnestra is seen by the Chorus as untrustworthy ... being detected. Only the audience seems to understand the double meanings. One example of how Clytemnestra hides meanings in otherwise plain words is stated in her hope that Agamemnon and his soldiers do not commit any sacrilege in Troy that...

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In the play Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O"Neal, certain elements in the play give parallels to Greek Mythology. The story that best proves this idea is the story of Agamemnon and his wife Clytemestra and their doomed marriage that ends in an affair and murder. It was dramatic irony in which everyone but the husband returning from war knew about ... . The play consists of the same idea of hidden resentment and bitter revenge that ties the two tales together. The mythological Greek story of the tragic tale of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra starts after Agamemnon returns home with Cassandra ...

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... harmed or killed, and either the victim, or someone close to them takes revenge on the criminal. This matter is proven in the trilogy numerous times. For example, Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon as revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia. Along those same lines, in the second part of the trilogy, Choephoroe, Orestes, who is ... Agamemnon son, murders Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. He does this in order to gain revenge on them for killing his father. It was by this way that people would deal with conflict, ... not settle down until the very end of the play. Not only is the c...

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... others as a heretic where he would be banished from society or even worse killed. To soften his message, he evolves his idea through the use of a trilogy, the Story of Agamemnon, Euripides, and the Libation Bearers (I think that's right). Anyways, he softens his idea much like Achebe does not to send any harmful messages. If his message is a threat this could ... ...

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