... being the antagonist of the story. Her daughter Electra will also be in the episode as well as a chorus, messenger, Aegisthus and Agamemnon. The story of the episode will start after the conflict which is Agamemnon leaving for the war in Troy, winning and returning back home. It opens on the day that ... Agamemnon arrives back home with the chorus speaking to each other in front of the home of Agamemnon about Clytemnestra and her suspicious relationship with Aegisthus. It's only a rumor that they are having an illicit relation ... having an illicit relationship. He does so believing and...

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... 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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... who disagree with every move she made in killing her husband. Justice considered by one may not be considered to be justice by all others. The chorus shows their anger with the queens actions, "You, pathetic- the king had just returned from battle. You waited out the war and fouled his lair ... , you planned my great commander's fall." (Pg. 170, line 1658-1661). It is obvious that the chorus feels that Aegistheus and Clytaemestra truly wronged the king, rather than bringing justice. One person may consider something to be justice, and at the same time ... him to murder view of justice in...

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... Agamemnon deserved to die for her suffering pain. In The Libation Bearers, Orestes is a tragic hero, who believes his act of vengeance in murdering Clytaemestra and Aegisthus for the death of his father, is justifiable. Orestes is successful in avenging the murderer of his father, by plotting the assassination of his father's executioners with his sister, Electra. The chorus ... all to witness. As Clytaemestra is standing over the dead bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra, she happily announces their death with the confession of the brutal murders. She arrogantly tells the chorus of her tri...

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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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