Agamemnon Part 2

Going with my first response, we read how Clytemnestra finds out that Agamemnon sacrificed her daughter to the god of the winds. Therefore, she is seeking justice. I have noticed that justice in this world is revenge. They believe getting revenge is getting the justice that they wanted. So, when finds out about what happened to her daughter, she wants revenge on her husband. I believe this is the best and most significant part of the play because the climax has finally approached. The Trojan Princess, Cassandra, creates some foreshadowing when she starts to speak about the curse on Agamemnon’s house. Cassandra says how “it [her] turn to die” before entering the house. This is significant because reading this, it created some suspense in the play. Questioning what was going to happen next in the play. Then finding out that She was killed, along with Agamemnon, was the best part of the play. What was interesting to me was the idea of how they see justice as revenge. I had some deep thought and figured that it was about how everything during this time was violent. So when they are personally seeking for justice, they think violence is the answer. Another example about it the violent times, is if one dies during a war, they are an honorable death and the others that die of old age are not honorable deaths. It really shows how big war was during these times. I really enjoyed this read, even though the beginning was a bit slow, because of the ending and the significant event that happened.