Agamemnon Passions

The chorus exemplifies this plagued form of justice that continues to occur throughout the play in a cyclical manner by saying, “Justice brings new acts of agony, yes, on new grindstones Fate is grinding sharp the sword of justice” (Agamemnon 1564-1565). The retributive justice described by the chorus is extremely prominent throughout Agamemnon and provides a foundation for Aeschylus to show the change in justice from play to play in his trilogy.

A “tragedy, for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering” (Dutton and Howard, 2003, p. 9). To really understand the play Othello is to truly understand a tragedy; thus, this researcher will analyze Aristotle’s view point and compare it to phrases (or quotes) from Shakespeare’s Othello.

Agamemnon is the first book in the Orestiean Trilogy written by the famous Greek tragedy writer, Aeschylus. Agamemnon is a story of justice and revenge. The story takes place in a city called Argos. It starts with Agamemnon, the king of Argos, away at the Trojan War. The city is eagerly awaiting the news of their king’s welfare and the outcome of the war. Watchmen are posted in the city, watching for the beacon that would report the capture of Troy and Agamemnon’s return. Beacons are set up from Troy to Argos; when one beacon is lit, the next one will be lit, until the last. The play starts when a palace watchman discovers the beacon and tells Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra, the good news.

Like the other two texts, the play of Agamemnon includes a character who was of higher standing and inherently good fortune but faces a plot reversal, which leads to suffering and death.

Virgil’s The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The poem details the journey of Aeneas and his men after they are forced to flee burning Troy and as they wander the seas in search of land suitable to found a new Troy. Throughout the many books, the Trojans suffer through the Trojan War, the loss of their home, fierce storms, horrible monsters, and the wrath of the gods. A major theme of The Aeneid is human suffering as the characters in the poem experience the full front of despair and pain.

*** What questions do you think the play Agamemnon would have let the audience ponder? How does this inform us of Greek morality? What role do the gods play in these stories?***

The society in which this play takes place is so foreign from our own that it is difficult to understand the actions of many characters. However, in Greek society many of these actions were much more understandable. The first of these situations was the sacrifice of Iphigeneia by Agamemnon. The king speaks of his grief when he says,

An example of the direct relationship between passion and reason in the character of Phaedra is shown after Phaedra tells Hippolytus of her feelings. Directly afterward Phaedra displays regret in her choice to state her feelings out loud, because she knows that she committed this action solely out of passion, with no reasoning behind it. Her lack of reason is at such an extreme that she will not even allow

In these four novels, they illustrate some critical tragedies that had taken place in different scenarios relating to one main theme, which is a tragedy, created by four infamous authors, King Lear written by William Shakespeare, Oedipus the King written by Sophocles, Wind From An Enemy Sky written by D'Arcy McNickle, and ultimately Agamemnon composed by Aeschylus. These writers depicted these novels as a distinctive and dynamic catastrophe implied for the benefit of heart winding up going into miserable spirals of catastrophe. Others surveyed, these stories as a “felicitous renderings of catastrophe in which… faithfulness to the ancient content meets poetic phrasing and meticulousness of imagery’’ (Andreas Markantonatos). Whereas in my point

“There are many solders here, but no man to save me,” said Iphigenia when she found herself surrounded by the Greek solders who came to take her to meet her pathetic end. The decision has been taken by the goddess, but who can resist or challenge this godly edict? Who dares to defy the goddess’ power while they are controlling the nature and guiding lives? This is what we see from the first look, and then many questions are raised about the taken decision. One of the most important questions, ‘’Could Agamemnon have saved his daughter?”

The play revolves around the leader of Greek forces, Agamemnon, and his deadly decision to sacrifice his first daughter Iphigenia, to preserve his honor by doing battle against

The play termed the Oresteia is actually a trilogy that is built around the family of Agamemnon. Traditionally, one of the primary themes of the three plays is a movement from a traditional belief in revenge for wrongs to one of justice and the rule of law. The purpose of this paper is to discuss all three of the plays and look at how justice is conceived in each.

secondary passions: pleasure and distress which were often the result one would get if one was to fail to avoid the matters of the first two main passions. According to (Jeremiah Genest, website) given the stoics view about moral and corrupt the only acceptable time that one could come to the acceptance that something bad is existing, is when there is actually something that could threaten ones virtue and morals, because this and this unaccompanied is what is truly good and moral. Therefore one would be correct in saying that all the so called passions require in a sense an actual component of incorrect judgement.

The theme of “Justice and Judgment” from Agamemnon relates to that of “Wisdom and Knowledge” because the characters try to justify their actions as

I chose to write my creative piece on the ancient Greek play ‘Agamemnon’ by creating a play from before the war and before Agamemnon had turn to extreme arrogance and Clytemnestra still has a loving nature of a mother and wife. Throughout my prequel to Agamemnon, I used a number of different literary devices and structuralist elements to relate my work to that of Aeschylus’ ‘Agamemnon’.