It all started when Thyestes seduced Atreus' wife and contested his right to the throne. To get even, Atreus killed Thyestes children and fed them to him. When Thyestes realized what his brother had done he cursed him and his descendants. From that point on the house of Atreus saw many wrongs and much retaliation. Vengeance was the theme that surrounded it. There's a Spanish quote that comes to mind when I think of the House of Atreus; "La venganza nunca es buena, mata el alma y te envenena." Which means, "Vengeance is never a good thing, it kills your soul and it poisons you." Except, it seems like for the House of Atreus the quote is more like "it poisons your soul and it kills you. "

Atreus had two sons, Agammemnon and Menelaus. Agammemnon would be the second of the family to commit murder in cold blood. He however, did not kill to avenge something that had been done to him. He killed to get something he wanted. He wanted to win a war. A war to which he would take hundreds of warriors to fight and dieto return a woman to her husband. A woman who had left because she wanted to, not because the conflicting party had kidnapped her. Still, Agammemnon turns his daughter, Iphigen

Unlike me, Agammemnon's remaining children did not believe that the death of their father was justified because he had killed their sister. I wonder why they would rather be against their mother "I despise her she deserves it" says Electra as Orestes her brother claims that their father was a great hero. All the while I'm reading their conversation I wonder if it occurred to them that just as Iphigeneia was killed they could have been killed by that hand they loved. But it seems as if they never thought about it because they plan to avenge their father's murder.

After he kills her daughter Agammemnon goes on to fight and win the war. Mean while, he expects Clytaemnestra to be sitting in her living room writing about how much she misses her adorable husband. But how can she? The man he married and loved leaves to go in search of a woman who left because she wanted to. Than after lying to her, he kills one of their children. And when he returns, he returns ten long years later with a mistress. The nerve of that man to expect to find his wife eager to be with him. It's only human that she was in pain, it's only right for her to try to fill the hole that her husband left empty.

They plan and follow through the murder of Clytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Orestes unlike Clytaemnestra, he takes time to explain to his victim the reason for which she is about to die "I want to butcher you" he tells her, "You love this man" (whom he has already killed)"the man you should have loved you hated." And h

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