... 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 ... words. Clytaemestra groups liquids and cloths by association, confusing one for the other. The carpets that Agamemnon treads on, for example, can be seen as a trail of blood. Earlier, the chorus mentions the robes of Iphigenia pouring to the ground (239-240). A...

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... idea of justice being served throughout them all by way of murder, and it is usually driven by revenge and vengeance. "To avenge [Iphigeneia's] death, Agamemnon is killed by his wife, Clytemnestra, " (Buller). Revenge is not always the best form of justice, but to Clytemnestra it was perfect. We see ... for staying away for so long, leaving her to rule their city. While Agamemnon was bathing, Clytemnestra trapped him in his bath robes and killed him with an axe. When she was caught of her crime, the chorus demanded she be exiled and shunned of all men because of her crime. ... She refute...

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... ideas, war and hunting, there is a result of the idea of war being a hunt of human beings. It seems to the chorus in the beginning of the Agamemnon that the war over Helen of Troy has made not only the city of Priam a victim of the Greek armies, but according to ... hunting" 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 to...

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... 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 and although suspicious of her, they still could not foresee the impending murders. ... 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 Tro...

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... do it since it is the duty of the son to avenge the death of his father. In this case, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus are the murderers of Agamemnon's death. Electra, having hope in Orestes and a strong devotion to the gods, she lives mourning her father's death. Electra says "Never shall I ... knows that there has to be revenge for what her mother has done but Chrysothemis never mourns with her sister or try to console her as the chorus does in the play. Chrysothemis is not respectful to her sister's lamentations and will stay as a coward. Electra also believes that Chrysothemis is a coward ...

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