Tug of War
If the two women of Agamemnon, Clytaemnestra and Cassandra, were put to the test of Tug of War, would there be a winner or would neither win? A game of Tug of war meaning, a pull from each side of the rope until one side with out a doubt crosses a drawn line. There are similarities between the two ladies as well as several differences. The actions of the ladies and confrontations lead the town to have confused thought of each woman. Both women are strong characters having strong pulls on the rope but each shows their weaknesses and tends to lose grip. A kid's game of Tug of War places these characters in a situation of face-to-face competition. As the chorus exclaims before Agamemnon arrives, "the good wins out, no pain can tip the scales, not now." There are few similarities amongst Clytaemnestra and Cassandra. Both ladies share an intimate relationship with Agamemnon and each relationship gives each woman a hard pull on each side of the rope. On Cassandra's side of the rope she pulls for Agamemnon as his prize won after her husband Eurypylus, was killed in the Trojan War. Cassandra bore Agamemnon a set of twins as they took their journey back home to Troy. The tear in the rope did not develop unt
Would the chorus have help on either side for a certain character? Clytaemnestra boast in the beginning about the fires and how she traveled with them bringing the fire back to claim Troy. The town people respect her, " We respect your power..But why these fires? Good news or more good hope?" This is where her pull on the rope is tending to become lose. The town people do not believe this woman's intuitions, " And who on earth could run the news so fast", the leader of Troy explains to Clytaemnestra. What makes her story different from anyone else in the town? Cassandra has the same problem on her side of the rope. When she foresees the future of herself as well as that of the king of Troy Agamemnon, the town people have no reason or proof to believe this mistress of the King. The god Apollo gave her a mixture of blessing and curse of prophecy. As much and she tried to warn the town the less of a grip she could make on the rope. Her tales as the town knew them, of the murder of Agamemnon their King and also that of her own, became a crazy woman's plea for help. All she could do was tell them of her knowledge and ask for them to believe. After her proclamations of the fall of Troy the town still could not develop a belief for her story. Cassandra was nobody to the town people, just a trophy for Agamemnon. Cassandra is a trophy that the town could not take pride in. Both Clytaemnestra and Cassandra have lost grip on the rope. With both women pulling a strong game, it leaves the score at an even point. The treatment given to each of the individual charact
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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