Since she felt that her daughter's death was not justified, she was determined to avenge it. At this point we feel that Clytemnestra was justified in planning her hateful revenge against Agamemnon, the man who killed her child. In such a dramatic situation, the audience feels sympathy towards her murderous desires. Her tragic character experiences pain, which the audience could relate to. Therefore we can feel her pain and at the same time she doesn't seem like she is insane.
After reading the play one realizes that it is not really about Agamemnon as much as is it about Clytemnestra and her struggle to cope with the members of society. An example can be seen with the chorus, Agamemnon and his cousin Aegisthus. Throughout the play it is seen that Clytemnestra's character is not afraid to express what she feels. She displays intelligence, pride, her cunning ways, and her violent actions of murder with confidence. The Majority of the characters in Agamemnon have a hate towards Clytemnestra. They feel she isn't doing as good a job as Agamemnon himself would do. They seem uncertain about everything she does or says. An example of this is when Clytemnestra brought the news to the chorus that there was victory in Troy, they didn't believe her and accused her by saying, "Perhaps the gods have sent some lie to us." (478). The Chorus did not believe what Clytemnestra had told them; rather they had a typical male view of her and seemed to think she was just being a weak hearted person who is just blinded by her longing for her husband. The image that the Chorus had of Clytemnestra was very different from the type of woman she proved herself to be at the end of the play.
Clytemnestra emerges a stronger person because in comparison to Agamemnon she tends to dominate, thus showing the reversal of roles between herself and her husband. Clytemnestra was a very strong woman, thought of as a faithful, loving wife, when in fact she was quite the opposite.
