The Oresteia Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 10 pages of analysis of The Characterisation of Clytaemnestra in the "Oresteia".

The Oresteia Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 10 pages of analysis of The Characterisation of Clytaemnestra in the "Oresteia".
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The Characterisation of Clytaemnestra in the "Oresteia"

Summary: How Aeschylus presents Clytaemnestra in the Oresteia (the Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eunmenides) and how he marks the extent to which traits of Clytaemnestra's character remain defiantly unchanged as she manipulates events and characters around her.
In this essay I intend to discuss how Aeschylus presents Clytaemnestra in the Oresteia and how he marks the extent to which traits of Clytaemnestra's character remain defiantly unchanged as she manipulates events and characters around her. Clytaemnestra is the only character who appears in all three plays in the trilogy, but despite her immense stage presence she remains a troublesome character to interpret due to the highly ambiguous nature of her words. I intend to show that the key to unlocking Clytaemnestra's manly heart lies in the fact that she hated Agamemnon, not simply because he had killed her child, nor because she loved Aegisthus, but out of a jealousy that was not a jealously of Cassandra, but of Agamemnon himself and his status as a man. Therefore, I intend to show how Aeschylus presents Clytemnestra as a character who ventures throughout the Oresteia to fight, think...

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