HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sceptre, True Life, Clytemnestra
12 Apr 2017
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We have done the agamemnon aka clytemnestra, libation tomb of agamemnon. Libation conflict between agamemnon and cly to the children, so we begin with electra, she is tormented, aliens between orestes and electra. Orestes and electra completely identified with their father, they are on dad"s side at this struggle. Electra complains of ill-treatments from her mother, she said she has been enslaved, her own life path is cut short, so not wedding for her. Orestes is filled with rage with mother, only few moments we sense a hesitation from him when he realizes horror what he is going to have to do with his mother. Libation was shift you as a viewer, in the agamemnon it"s quite easy to see cly"s position, daughter taken from her, killed by husband, her rage and fury, mother has been injured. In libation, we see her less as a victim and more of causing pain to her own children.
