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This 4 page paper analyzes the idea of justice throughout the Trilogy by Aeschylus. Quotes cited from all three volumes. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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a study of the Trilogy by the ancient playwright, Aeschylus. While it seems that Aeschylus assures everyone that justice has been done, the modern reader is less certain.
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.
And, in the final cycle Orestes, the son of Oresteia, takes his revenge on Clytemnestra and kills her, only to be hounded for eternity by the three Fates.
Clytemnestra has been 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 in front of her. It can be said that she had little, if
any feelings for the men in her life, but merely performed her duty with as much grace as was possible. She knew herself to be classically powerless. No one seemed
to view this act as a crime except Clytemnestra, though she did not act against it, nor speak out against it. But, as her story unfolds, a lifetime of watching
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