Iphigenia

In Agamemnon, the main character Agamemnon was headed off to the well-known Trojan war when he encountered strong winds sent by the goddess Artemis. Rather than abandon the war and turn back Agamemnon made the choice to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to please Artemis so he could go on his way. However, by making this decision Agamemnon unwittingly planted the seeds of revenge in his wife’s heart that would

Ancient expectations for women include always putting the responsibilities of being a mother above all else, as shown in Euripides’ Medea and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, as well as Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis. Both Clytemnestra and Medea exhibit motherly love and tend to those responsibilities, but commit atrocious, unladylike acts, which jeopardize the sympathy felt for them by an audience. The respective playwrights of each story use their character’s motivations and how they align with their roles

Throughout the play the Furies where trying to gain revenge by killing Orestes for killing his own mother. The Furies believed that blood must be paid with blood for and gruesome act as killing your own mother. The Furies cross-examine Orestes on the charges that he committed. Orestes admits that he killed his mother, and says that he did so following the commands of Apollo, which got his commands from the God Zeus. He also says that his mother had it coming to her (because she killed Agamemnon,

The role of women in ancient Greek life was insignificant compared to that of Greek men. A woman's job was to take care of the children and to cook and clean unless she had servants or slaves that would do it for her. Yet, in Greek mythology, women were often written as major characters. Well-known Greek plays contain many well-written, complex, female characters. Female individuals in Greek mythology were often seen as very powerful and fierce and were depicted by “her wits, her beauty, or her

Everyone is going to die. This is no secret to the audience of the Greek play Agamemnon. Rather than surprising us with the murders that befall at the hands of vengeance, the Greek playwright uses this common story to display the underlying theme that one must first suffer before they can reach the truth. To understand the significance behind the story of Agamemnon, one must understand the passions and how they relate to the human person, Zeus’s law of suffering into truth, and Aeschylus’s motives

A story is generally comprised of five essential elements: characters, setting, plot, conflict and resolution (Penguin Young Readers Group). The characters are a critical component of any story because they allow the readers to relate with different types of behaviour, visualize personalities and engage accordingly. The following stories are centralized around a single character and they all succeed in capturing audience interest: Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Agamemnon by Aeschylus, and Secret

In The Oresteian Trilogy there is a very apparent theme of injustice throughout the plays. Injustice is unlawful or unethical acts that are not treated or punished the correct way. Integrity and fairness are what I believe have the most impact on the way a person will read and react to injustice. Integrity is the ability to be truthful and honorable to a set of morals that each person grows up to believe. Making a decision without having bias towards a side would considered fair. Clarkson, a prestigious

Iphigenia has been apart of many mythological stories, showing the harshness of people. The myth of Iphigenia was said to be that she was sacrificed for the mistake of her father, Agamemnon. He was setting out to fight in the battle of Troy. The story of Iphigenia represents the sadness and sorrow felt for her and the identification of the struggle she experienced. Both The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and “Iphigenia” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson use the myth of Iphigenia to indicate

of this play talks about the fight for who gets Helen, and the role that Iphigenia has in this task. A lot of Greek myths and plays reference sacrifices of a daughter to a god, in order to help a group of people or make the god happy. The main people of this story: Helen and Menelaus, and Iphigenia, who all have their specific roles in this play, and roles in their societies. Helen, being the one who is fought over, Iphigenia, who is being sacrificed, Menelaus, who is the king of sparta, but would

provides the prologue for Agamemnon’s death in The Oresteia with Iphigenia in Aulis. After much wavering, Agamemnon elects to sacrifice his daughter for the sake of the Grecian army. Iphigenia dutifully accepts her demise and attenuates her father’s decision. She has little choice but to face her death full heartedly. With neither hope of being spared nor fear of death, she takes credit as becoming the savior of Greece. Agamemnon and Iphigenia are given little