... would avenge her daughter's death and get him back 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 ... Agamemnon's death on Helen of Troy, they leave Clytemnestra thinking that her crime will not bring destruction to her. Little does she know, "the man who acts will suffer, " (Aeschylus 1842), meaning that whoever acts violently against another person, will re...

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... and children. Therefore, the viper ends up attacking her mate, king Agamemnon, and in turn is attacked by her children Orestes and Electra. In reality, these images imply that Clytemnestra acts as an enemy and not as a member of the family. Therefore, these actions, exempts her from being protected by the ties of the family. After killing Agamemnon, Clytemnestra subjects the ... . Xenia demands that a woman should show hospitality to strangers in her house. Conflict arises Clytemnestra violates Xenia by not showing hospitality to her own husband and decides to use the bath to kill him. H...

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