Clytemnestra Whether Clytemnestra is a righteously angry mother wanting to avenge her child or a adulterous murderer who deserved to die, people decide what her personality really is based on what qualities they find most important. She is a strong character, but deviates greatly from the traditional Greek standards of a women being subservient to their male leader. However she is still a mother and loves her children immensely. From her role as an protagonist in Agamemnon she shows her strength in facing the world until her downfall in The Liberation Bearers. When a child is killed in cold blood, does a mother not have the right to be angry? The feeling of grief washes over her before it turns to burning rage; no matter who the killer may have once been, any love and affection is gone once you kill their child. Agamemnon had killed their daughter, Iphigenia, and it was a crime Clytemnestra could not forgive. While he was off in a decade-long war with the Trojans, Clytemnestra ruled the kingdom in his absence. Off on the side, she became enamored with…show more content… The only thing that shed a bad light on her was the fact that she made her daughter, Electra, a slave to her own house. This is confusing as she had killed her husband to save one of her daughters and sent her son to another city to keep him safe. When the story starts off, she fears her husband beyond his grave. This is reasonable considering the supernatural isn't fake in their world. She isn't arrogant enough to consider that no one would oppose murder she had committed. Her weakness is showed when Orestes is about to kill her. Unlike Agamemnon, she doesn't hate her son enough to kill him. So she pleads for life, but ends up dead. Her weakness was her compassion for her children. She had killed her husband to avenge her daughter. Her son avenges his father, but Clytemnestra would not kill her own
