... 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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