Comparing the Portrayal of Clytemnestra in Agamemnon and Electra

Comparing Agamemnon 's Clytemnestra and Electra and Agamemnon' s Electra 's mapping, Euripides and Aeschylus chose to represent Clytemnestra as a complex character. Badness is not a good thing - a sign of a complicated playwright. In Agamemnon, Clytemnestra is a sickly woman completely swallowed up by her daughter's murder case, the audience can only afford to sympathize with this woman; she can only revenge. In Electra, Clytemnestra was sacrificed by her daughter, was in a more sympathetic light, and her daughter is obsessive like her mother's desire to revenge her father's death It was moved by desire.

Comparing Agamemnon 's Clytemnestra and Electra and Agamemnon' s Electra 's mapping, Euripides and Aeschylus chose to represent Clytemnestra as a complex character. Badness is not a good thing - a sign of a complicated playwright. In Agamemnon, Clytemnestra is a sickly woman completely swallowed up by her daughter's murder case, the audience can only afford to sympathize with this woman; she can only revenge. In Electra, Clytemnestra was sacrificed by her daughter, was in a more sympathetic light, and her daughter is obsessive like her mother's desire to revenge her father's death It was moved by desire.

Analysis of the character of Agamemnon from Homer's Iliad and Agesemnon of Aeschylus Agamemnon is the son of the brothers of Mycenae's king, Atrusus and Queen Arrop, Menelaus and Klein Ernst. Pull the husband. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have four children: one son, Orestes and three daughters, Iphigenia, Electra and Chrysothemis. He is the king of Mycenae. When Menelaus' wife Helen was kidnapped by Troipari, Agamemnon became the Greek commander in the subsequent Trojan war. The role of Agamemnon tells him and his figure. In this epic, Achilles must deal with the conflict between his free will and his fate. When Achilles for the first time killed Agamemnon and decided whether to insult him or not, he encountered his ongoing confrontation in the first volume (84). Athena arrived soon and suggested that Achilles has options as he said "From the sky, I will check your anger as long as you get down" (84)

When the play began, Agamemnon sent a message to his wife 's Klethemnestra, telling her to take Iphigenia to Auris to open a glorious wedding ceremony for the best Achilles of the duck' s hero. Agamemnon was suffering from the decision to abandon his child for Greek and glory, but Iphigenia arrived at the Greek camp with her unconscious mother who was expecting to get married. When a tough fact was revealed, Clytemnestra desperately betrayed Iphigenia appealing for her father's life (Eurlipides of all translations by Charles R. Walker):