Essays Tagged: "Clytaemnestra"

An Examination of Clytaemnestra as a Tragic Victim of the Oresteia.

Clytaemnestra, although villified in the Oresteia, was in fact a moral extractor of vendetta justice ... ffers two different types of justice, vendetta, as well as trial justice; however, at the time that Clytaemnestra committed the act of murder, legal justice was not being offered to her. It is for thi ... al justice was not being offered to her. It is for this reason that this papers seeks to prove that Clytaemnestra is an extractor of vendetta justice, which is the only justice which she had available ...

(9 pages) 59 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The Orestia

sacrifice, which is aeuphemism for murder. Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter Iphigeneia becomesClytaemnestra's primary motive for the murder of her husband Agamemnon. Like Agamemnon, Clytaemnestr ... to do with emotions andrevenge. The roles will now bereversed, with Agamemnon being the victim and Clytaemnestra the aggressor andexerciser of revenge. This rolereversal is also accompanied by a gend ...

(6 pages) 15 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Euripides! master! how well yo

set about "listening" to the playwrights.In Agamemnon, Aeschylus addresses some remarks toward his Clytaemnestra which could possibly be interpreted as disparaging. She is said to "maneuver like a ma ... s of the prevailing attitudes, when juxtaposed with Aeschylus' portrayal of an intelligent, capable Clytaemnestra, a gullible, ususpecting Agamemnon and a spineless, parasitical Aegisthus, achieve the ...

(5 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Clytaemnestra

In "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus, Clytaemnestra is the character with the majority of the power because of her ability to manipulate t ... and. She kills to gain justice for her daughter's death, as she feels their law justifies her acts. Clytaemnestra manipulates the other characters into believing that she is weak, she toys with the ot ... she will gain more power over the kingdom and retain her concubine, Aegisthus. From the beginning, Clytaemnestra was a woman with power. Her first action in Agamemnon was to command. She was later de ...

(6 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature