Agamemnon

In Aeschylus’ The Agamemnon, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra execute evil deeds based on difficult decisions. Through the chorus, Aeschylus proves that he believes their actions are done out of hubris, and therefore are not justified. Agamemnon selfishly kills his daughter so he can take his army to war and earn a victory. Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon encouraged by revenge but primarily to earn power. Both characters believe their killings are justified; however, Aeschylus uses the chorus to prove

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’. This included references to eagles/ Zeus, ‘rise high’, ‘soar with him, my eagle’ and ‘surrender from flight’ as

In Achilleus' speech to Agamemnon, he is arguing that Agamemnon is a a bad leader, and fighting the Trojans is a useless act with no will gain for anyone other than to Agamemnon to think he will be able to punish the Trojains for disrespecting him. One attribute of terrible leadership Achilleus described was when he said, "'O wrapped in shamelessness, with your mind forever on profit, how shall any one of the Achaians readily obey you either to go on a journey or to fight men strongly in battle?"

bringing about justice. Clytaemnestra vengeance on Agamemnon backfires because she is simply doing the exact same thing as he did. In Clytaemnstra’s mind her actions are justified because of all the evil things Agamemnon has done to her and others. Clytaemnestra believes she has many reason to kill Agamemnon but most of those reason are based in hypocrisy because through killing him she is reenacting everything she hates about him. In the play, “Agamemnon,” Clytaemnestra believes her actions are justified

Analysis of Aeschylus Agamemnon Characters- The Watchman Clytaemnestra The Herald Agamemnon Cassandra Aegisthus The Chorus 1). The Watchman: • The watchman sets the time and place for the play (Agamemnon’s palace in Argos, the house of Atreus); he describes the many miserable nights he has spent on the rooftop of the palace watching for the signal fires that will herald the fall of Troy. • The watchman is one Aeschylus’s small characters, but like the herald he serves an

The play Hamlet is more tragic than Agamemnon due to a stronger display of all elements of tragedy, dramatic plot and character development, and its ability to gain audience sympathy. Peripeta is used consistently throughout Hamlet as the narrative is full of unexpected plot twists. For instance, after learning of Claudius’s guilt, Hamlet does not act on impulse but rather decides to wait. Shortly after, Hamlet mistakenly murders Polonius which then leads to Ophelia’s suicide. Furthermore, all deaths

Menelaus, Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War. However, his personal features did not deserve such a high status. The character of Agamemnon is depicted by homer as headstrong, passionate, stubborn, quick to anger and hard to placate. More importantly, he is very arrogant and it is the main factor to cause his tragic ending. I think Agamemnon is an arrogant king because he is selfish and he disrespect to Achilles. First of all, King Agamemnon is arrogant

greatness of a hero. A person can be determined as a hero by the brave things they have done or how their actions have impacted others. In The Iliad by Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore, the Greek king Agamemnon loses his best warrior, Achilles, who decides not to fight in the Trojan War. Agamemnon knows that the Greeks will be unable to win the war without Achilles, whose strength cannot be matched by anyone else. In Beowulf by an anonymous poet, translated by Burton Raffel, Beowulf is Hrothgar’s

Agamemnon is an interesting tale about a king in the city of Argos. It was created by aeschylus around 458 B.C. It was translated by S. H. Landes in 1995. The book it part of a trilogy, and while the protagonist, and name of the story, is Agamemnon he does not actually show up until the middle of the story. The story focus pretty heavily on themes of revenge for the sake of justice. It also focuses on the effects of war. The story’s exposition starts with the Watchman waiting for a beacon to signal

In book nine of the Iliad, Homer portrays Achilles refusal to Agamemnon as the circumstance of the Greek world’s structure being out of order. A world of system, where many warriors risk their lives in seek of honor. “Swift runner” (9.638) Achilles is conscious and aware that the Greek realm is stagnant and heading to its own doom. Achilles fights hard in battles in the name of “mighty king” (9.368) Agamemnon and in returns gets nothing. In addition, he also deeply feels the nihilism of the Greek