Clytemnestra's role in Agamemnon.
Agamemnon is a great Greek tragedy play. It's a story of the Trojan War, which lasted for ten years and greatly influenced the future. As true for any war, not only the men took part in it. Most of the women were somehow involved but each one from a different aspect of the war. Each woman brought her own unique perspective. Troy women such as Andromache, Briseis, Cassandra, Creusa and more got to see the war first-hand. Others like Clytemnestra, Deidameia, Laodamia, and Penelope waited in distant lands for the war to end, and some women took a more active stance in the war by wielding swords and fighting. Penthesilea and the Amazons were the two women who participated in battle. The Trojan War turned lives upside down and created a vast array of myths. The Trojan War affected many women. None were affected more than Clytemnestra.Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda and therefore was Helen's half-sister. Her father betrothed her to Tantalus while she was still a virgin. Because Tantalus was the son of Thyestes who was the king of Mycenae, Clytemnestra automatically became a queen. Soon after their marriage she gave birth to a son, named Tantalus. After the birth o
Their crime did not go unpunished. When Agamemnon's son Orestes reached adulthood, he returned and killed both, his mother and her lover. Clytemnestra begged for her life but to no avail, she was murdered in the same way she murdered her husband. I think that she played a huge part in the play. He actions caused many deaths and much more grief to people across the land. She murdered a king in her husband, a totally innocent woman who she thought was being brought as a concubine in Cassandra and paid with her life for her actions. She is in many respects a sympathetic character, but her entanglement taints the righteousness of her crime with Aegisthus. Even so, it is clear that Agamemnon's death had to be avenged. Another way to try to justify her actions is her involvement with Aegisthus. While planning for the murder of her husband Clytemnestra said that one of the reasons she was doing it, was because he was bringing home a mistress. I think that she is forgetting that she had done something just as bad. How can she expect to be forgiven for her cheating because of a curse? I am a firm believer in superstition and in future telling but she blames all her troubles on the curse of Aphrodite. I think that this is a ridiculous accusation to make. There were a lot of curses in the play, which did come true, but most of them were not by the choice of the person. She was in total control of the situation and still made the choice to commit adultery. This choice would eventually cost her dearly. I think that most of the opinions on Clytemnestra are correct and she definitely was at fault for a lot of things in her life including her own death. While Agamemnon was fight
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