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Electra
By Sophocles - Stage play
Roles
- Electra - Young Adult (20-35), Female
About this piece
Electra laments her father's death
Summary
The play has the same setting and theme as Aeschylus' "The Libation Bearers". The background of the story is that Agamemnon, king of Argos, has been killed along with his mistress Cassandra, by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. By doing so Clytemnestra avenges the death of her daughter by Agamemnon, who had sacrificed her to the gods during the Trojan war. Electra is Clytemnestra's daughter. She, along with her brother Orestes, carry out a plot to kill their mother and her lover to avenge their father's death. Electra delivers this monologue when she appears for the first time in the play, in the second scene. She is by herself and she is lamenting her father's death.
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