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This 6 page paper compares and contrasts the play by Aeschylus called Orestreia and Eugene O'Neill's play, Mourning Becomes Electra. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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close examination of ancient plays to modern plays. Oresteia and Mourning becomes Electra by ONeill share some striking resemblances, and the dissimilarities can be said to simply be the hallmark
of voice, style and era. The portrayal of women in the two plays is significant. In Aeschylus time, a girls single-most ambition was to secure a good husband. Women were
little more than property. In his play, Oresteia, Clytemnestra is portrayed as a woman who has been gravely wronged and duped by her husband, Agamemnon. In the play that was
the forerunner to this one, Agamemnon has sacrificed his daughter to the soldiers in order for their to be peace. In essence, this girl was given as a sacrifice by
her father, as if she were little more than a vase or war horse. However, her mother, Clytemnestra pleads for her safety, for the lunacy to end. But, Agamemnon does
not relent and the girl dies. In Oresteia, Clytemnestra has her revenge. Greek women had little freedom outside of the home, it would seem. Generally speaking, their task was
to bear children and keep the home in working order. Interestingly enough, Clytemnestra typifies this perfect woman image in the Ipthigenia play, while in the latter play, she has been
changed, shaped by events which have unfolded. Greek society was also shaped by the events which unfolded. In Ipthigenia at Aulis one sees Clytemnestra continuing to be the pawn
of the men in her life. She has come to this situation because of murder, and has been traded back and forth as a spoil of war. Her first husband
had been killed by Agamemnon and her child killed before her. It can be said that she had little, if any feelings for the men in her life, but merely
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