... Many Greek plays contain several complex female characters; Aeschylus is a playwright whom incorporates a very complex female character, Clytemnestra in his play Agamemnon. Although Clytemnestra is one of the most recognizable and noted female villains due to her involvement in the murder of her husband and his ... she can dominate as a "tool for her masculine will"2 since he is addressed as a "woman" by the Chorus at the end of the play (1625). The return of Agamemnon is a threat to Clytemnestra's power; however, his return is eagerly anticipated because it gives her the opportunity to s...

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... appropriateness for sacrifice. Typically, Greek mythology portrayed the current moral standards of society, thus creating the prominence of animal sacrifice in ritual. Yet, in the Oresteia, the story of Agamemnon revolves around human sacrifice as a secondary motif. Simultaneously, however, epitomizing public reaction to such types of ritual. The first instance of sacrifice, and the cause of all following retribution ... to sacrifice his daughter, Iphpigenia, because of constraints being placed upon him by Artemis and Zeus. And because Agamemnon is blinded by his determination for his A...

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