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Electra
By Euripides - Stage play
Roles
- Electra - Young Adult (20-35), Female
About this piece
Electra's speech to Aegisthus' corpse
Summary
Similar in plot to Aeschylus "The Libation Bearers" and Sophocles' Electra, the play is about Electra's and her brother Orestes' revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus for having killed their father Agamemnon. The reason Clytemnestra had killed Agamemnon when he came back to Argos from the Trojan war is that Agamemnon, in order to be able to sail to Troy with his army, had been forced to sacrifice his daughter Iphigeneia to the goddess Artemis. After Orestes and Electra are reunited after many years of separation, they decide to kill their mother and her lover. First Orestes manages to kill Aegisthus and returns with his body. In this monologue, Electra scolds Aegisthus' corpse for all the pain that he has caused her.
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