characters of clytemnestra and electra in orestes trilogy
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Characters of Clytemnestra and Electra in Orestes trilogy : compare of these two charactersTRANSCRIPT
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LAHORE LEADS UNIVERSITY
According to Greek she was the most beautiful lady of the world
She is the wife of Menelaus
Her abduction by Paris results in Trojan war last for 10 years
Troy was in modern day Turkey
wwwoccultopediacom
Wife of
Thyndareus
Zeus appeared in
form of Swan to
her
Their meeting
resulted in two
eggs
lulebeldeviantartcom
From first egg
Castor
Clytemnestra
Second egg
Helen
Polydeuces
Thewonderoftwinsworldpressco
m
He advocates the importance of male in society
This superiority is throughout Trilogy and specially in ldquoThe Furiesrdquo
He is of the point of view that intelligence and wit while exalted in men are threatening characteristics in women
Top10-bestcom
Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Watch man
Herald
Messenger
Aegisthus
Soldiers
Servants (Door keeper)
Elders of Argos (Chorus)
Slave women (Chorus
Orestes
Electra
Servant
Pylades (Friend of Orestes and son of the king of Phoces)
Cilissa (Who nursed Orestes)
Erynies
Priestes
Apollo
Ghost of Clytemnestra
Athna
Athnian citizens
Clytemnestra
breaks
tradition
where as
Electra
preserves the
status quo
Aeschylus presented her in Agamemnon as a
simple women obsessed with the thought of
loss of her daughter
He shows her as neither too bad nor too
good
She is consumed with the thoughts of
revenge
She displays more intelligence than others
the way she manipulates the events leading
up to Agamemnonrsquos execution
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
Elexaadamsblogspotcom
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
According to Greek she was the most beautiful lady of the world
She is the wife of Menelaus
Her abduction by Paris results in Trojan war last for 10 years
Troy was in modern day Turkey
wwwoccultopediacom
Wife of
Thyndareus
Zeus appeared in
form of Swan to
her
Their meeting
resulted in two
eggs
lulebeldeviantartcom
From first egg
Castor
Clytemnestra
Second egg
Helen
Polydeuces
Thewonderoftwinsworldpressco
m
He advocates the importance of male in society
This superiority is throughout Trilogy and specially in ldquoThe Furiesrdquo
He is of the point of view that intelligence and wit while exalted in men are threatening characteristics in women
Top10-bestcom
Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Watch man
Herald
Messenger
Aegisthus
Soldiers
Servants (Door keeper)
Elders of Argos (Chorus)
Slave women (Chorus
Orestes
Electra
Servant
Pylades (Friend of Orestes and son of the king of Phoces)
Cilissa (Who nursed Orestes)
Erynies
Priestes
Apollo
Ghost of Clytemnestra
Athna
Athnian citizens
Clytemnestra
breaks
tradition
where as
Electra
preserves the
status quo
Aeschylus presented her in Agamemnon as a
simple women obsessed with the thought of
loss of her daughter
He shows her as neither too bad nor too
good
She is consumed with the thoughts of
revenge
She displays more intelligence than others
the way she manipulates the events leading
up to Agamemnonrsquos execution
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
Elexaadamsblogspotcom
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
Wife of
Thyndareus
Zeus appeared in
form of Swan to
her
Their meeting
resulted in two
eggs
lulebeldeviantartcom
From first egg
Castor
Clytemnestra
Second egg
Helen
Polydeuces
Thewonderoftwinsworldpressco
m
He advocates the importance of male in society
This superiority is throughout Trilogy and specially in ldquoThe Furiesrdquo
He is of the point of view that intelligence and wit while exalted in men are threatening characteristics in women
Top10-bestcom
Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Watch man
Herald
Messenger
Aegisthus
Soldiers
Servants (Door keeper)
Elders of Argos (Chorus)
Slave women (Chorus
Orestes
Electra
Servant
Pylades (Friend of Orestes and son of the king of Phoces)
Cilissa (Who nursed Orestes)
Erynies
Priestes
Apollo
Ghost of Clytemnestra
Athna
Athnian citizens
Clytemnestra
breaks
tradition
where as
Electra
preserves the
status quo
Aeschylus presented her in Agamemnon as a
simple women obsessed with the thought of
loss of her daughter
He shows her as neither too bad nor too
good
She is consumed with the thoughts of
revenge
She displays more intelligence than others
the way she manipulates the events leading
up to Agamemnonrsquos execution
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
Elexaadamsblogspotcom
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
From first egg
Castor
Clytemnestra
Second egg
Helen
Polydeuces
Thewonderoftwinsworldpressco
m
He advocates the importance of male in society
This superiority is throughout Trilogy and specially in ldquoThe Furiesrdquo
He is of the point of view that intelligence and wit while exalted in men are threatening characteristics in women
Top10-bestcom
Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Watch man
Herald
Messenger
Aegisthus
Soldiers
Servants (Door keeper)
Elders of Argos (Chorus)
Slave women (Chorus
Orestes
Electra
Servant
Pylades (Friend of Orestes and son of the king of Phoces)
Cilissa (Who nursed Orestes)
Erynies
Priestes
Apollo
Ghost of Clytemnestra
Athna
Athnian citizens
Clytemnestra
breaks
tradition
where as
Electra
preserves the
status quo
Aeschylus presented her in Agamemnon as a
simple women obsessed with the thought of
loss of her daughter
He shows her as neither too bad nor too
good
She is consumed with the thoughts of
revenge
She displays more intelligence than others
the way she manipulates the events leading
up to Agamemnonrsquos execution
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
Elexaadamsblogspotcom
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
He advocates the importance of male in society
This superiority is throughout Trilogy and specially in ldquoThe Furiesrdquo
He is of the point of view that intelligence and wit while exalted in men are threatening characteristics in women
Top10-bestcom
Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Watch man
Herald
Messenger
Aegisthus
Soldiers
Servants (Door keeper)
Elders of Argos (Chorus)
Slave women (Chorus
Orestes
Electra
Servant
Pylades (Friend of Orestes and son of the king of Phoces)
Cilissa (Who nursed Orestes)
Erynies
Priestes
Apollo
Ghost of Clytemnestra
Athna
Athnian citizens
Clytemnestra
breaks
tradition
where as
Electra
preserves the
status quo
Aeschylus presented her in Agamemnon as a
simple women obsessed with the thought of
loss of her daughter
He shows her as neither too bad nor too
good
She is consumed with the thoughts of
revenge
She displays more intelligence than others
the way she manipulates the events leading
up to Agamemnonrsquos execution
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
Elexaadamsblogspotcom
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Watch man
Herald
Messenger
Aegisthus
Soldiers
Servants (Door keeper)
Elders of Argos (Chorus)
Slave women (Chorus
Orestes
Electra
Servant
Pylades (Friend of Orestes and son of the king of Phoces)
Cilissa (Who nursed Orestes)
Erynies
Priestes
Apollo
Ghost of Clytemnestra
Athna
Athnian citizens
Clytemnestra
breaks
tradition
where as
Electra
preserves the
status quo
Aeschylus presented her in Agamemnon as a
simple women obsessed with the thought of
loss of her daughter
He shows her as neither too bad nor too
good
She is consumed with the thoughts of
revenge
She displays more intelligence than others
the way she manipulates the events leading
up to Agamemnonrsquos execution
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
Elexaadamsblogspotcom
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
Clytemnestra
breaks
tradition
where as
Electra
preserves the
status quo
Aeschylus presented her in Agamemnon as a
simple women obsessed with the thought of
loss of her daughter
He shows her as neither too bad nor too
good
She is consumed with the thoughts of
revenge
She displays more intelligence than others
the way she manipulates the events leading
up to Agamemnonrsquos execution
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
Elexaadamsblogspotcom
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
Aeschylus presented her in Agamemnon as a
simple women obsessed with the thought of
loss of her daughter
He shows her as neither too bad nor too
good
She is consumed with the thoughts of
revenge
She displays more intelligence than others
the way she manipulates the events leading
up to Agamemnonrsquos execution
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
Elexaadamsblogspotcom
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
ldquoSpoke like a man my lady loyal full of self commandrdquo
(Aeschylus 116)
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She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
She has been having an open affair with Aegisthus
Chorus condemn her this act with Aegisthus although it was a normal practice for men in those days to have many extramarital affairs In this way Aeschylus condemn double standard
She is the protagonist of the play
It was she who spark a debate between Apollo an Furies weather matricide was just
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra before marriage(Euripides)
Agamemnon kill Tyndarus(Clytemnestrarsquos husband)
He raped Clytemnestra and forced into marriage
Clytemnestra welcome her husband
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
She made a system of bacons (Watchman)
She want to know first that Trojan war is finished
She persuaded Agamemnon to walk upon the sacred tapestries which would incur the godrsquos wrath
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
She lies Electra that it was Cassandra to push
her kill Agamemnon
She exiles Orestes to secure her position as
queen
She reduce Electra to serventitude
She is having no room for maternal feelings
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
She kill her husband to avenge the death of
Iphigenia
Aeschylus Clytemnestra is ruthless and
manipulative
Homerrsquos Clytemnestra weak and submissive
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Electra complex
Psychosexual
Electra complex in literature
Sylvia Plath poem ldquoDaddyrdquo
Stages Oral
Anal
Phallic (3-6 years0
Latent
GenetalWiswqeekorg
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
She loses her father and brother
She also loses the only family she ever had
(her mother) as she became a wife to
Aegisthus
She is also reduced to serventitude by her
mother
She also is obsessed with thoughts of revenge
(Justice to be done)
She victimizes Clytemnestra
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
Her love turned into hatred after the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Clytemnestra was obsessed with thoughts about loss of her daughter
She succeeded in her revenge by killing her husband
She was not having any maternal feelings Electra and Orestes
She possesses manly qualities
She exiles Orestes to secure her position
She reduced Electra to serventitude
She was having an open affair with Aegisthus
Much persuasive
Antagonist of the play
Breaker of traditions
Ruthless and manipuative
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
She is also
obsessed with
thought to avange
the death of her
father
She loses father
brother and finally
her mother
She also is
succeeds in her
mission
She is faithful to
her father
She is the
preserver of status
quo
