Essay during the term of cheap
Ambiguity and insincerity in Clytemnestra
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra are portrayed at the commencement of the play as equals. The alarm of the play states that Clytemnestra is nice to her husband, though in the last mentioned , Clytemnestra has an unusual influence in the general sphere, especially when criticizing Agamemnon, with the help of the chorus. There are divers signals that Clytemnestra has sympathy on the side of the victims of troy, as her daughter Iphigenia was a cull herself. It is therefore clear that she wants Agamemnon to return home in order to kill him herself.
The picket neither speaks out the truth nor conceals it, yet gives signs to be interpreted. This property we must distinguish between what is uttered and what is meant.
Clytemnestra gives testimony of Troy’s fall to the chorus in pair separate speeches. The first is very descriptive in how the message travelled from Troy to Argos. Proving she is kindly with the geography. She described herself since ‘a women faithful to the public-~’; in fact she was faithful to the family, but not to Agamemnon. This is shown ‘‘…greater amount of deaths for you than could subsist compassed in the hour that slept with me’’. The second speech is abounding of vocabulary of rumors and spurious tales. It explains her hardship over the 10 years, but the notice is clear, she longs for Agamemnon to go in order to kill him. Clytemnestra has the address to manipulate words in each words immediately preceding. This makes her very ambiguous and insincere, it gives the audience an statue of dishonesty.
Clytemnestra uses the crimson silk being of the cl~s who a metaphor for Agamemnon’s actions. Agamemnon refuses to walk forward the tapestry, as he feared ’’the spite of the gods’’. Clytemnestra uses this argument against him, if he feared the gods wherefore would he have sacrificed Iphigenia. She therefore puts him in Priam’s rank and he agrees that he would step steady such an expensive tapestry in Priam’s position. This is another example of her manipulative skills.
Clytemnestra shows signs of the one and the other...
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