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Agamemnon
Title: Agamemnon
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 5107 | Pages: 21.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Agamemnon
Section 1: From the first line to Clytaemestra's: "Of all good things to wish this is my dearest choice"
Summary:
The play opens on Agamemnon's palace in Argos. The time is just minutes before the fall of Troy. It is night. A lonely watchman on the roof of the palace, under the starry sky, soliloquizes about his weariness. He has been enlisted by the queen to look out for a beacon of fire, a signal that …showed first 75 words of 5107 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 5107 total…and the sacrifice of Iphigeneia causes the instability of Argive society, his wife's unsexing, and his own downfall. Looking ahead to the return of Orestes, it is possible to see how the avenging son, a male, will restore patriarchal order. After all, Aegisthus' virility is ridiculed by the Chorus, who recognizes cowardice in his failure to execute his plan himself. Surely, he will not bring the relief, the cure, so badly needed in grief-stricken Argos.
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