... , 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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... 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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