Reasons Electra is a victim analysis
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- Created on: 11-03-16 11:24
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- Reasons Electra is a victim analysis
- "Agamemnon killed by Aegisthus"
- Her father was murdered by her mother's new lover and can't be avenged
- Agamemnon could have deserved to die and Aegisthus could have been a better king
- Her father was murdered by her mother's new lover and can't be avenged
- "Drives me out of doors and since she has borne Aegisthus other sons, she treats me and Orestes both as *******s of her house"
- She has been banished from her home and now has been told she has lost all her titles and is a *******
- She has got away from her mother ans she doesn't have to live with her father's murderer
- She has been banished from her home and now has been told she has lost all her titles and is a *******
- "Since you left your sister sad in her room at home to a future of bitterness and pain?"
- She feels abandoned by her brother and feels hopeless for the future
- Orestes is exiled and alone and Electra is slightly self-centered about this as she only thinks about her lack of comfort
- She feels abandoned by her brother and feels hopeless for the future
- "While, I banished from my ancestral palace, live in a labourer's cottage"
- She has been banished from her home and sent to a peasant's cottage so she feels home sick and abandoned
- She is married to a nice man who doesn't force her into anything and she is in her home land unlike Orestes
- She has been banished from her home and sent to a peasant's cottage so she feels home sick and abandoned
- "Brother, what fate is yours?"
- She doesn't know what happened to Orestes or where he is and she is worried about him
- She only cares about getting back in the palace and avenging her father so she wants Orestes to come back and do it for her
- She doesn't know what happened to Orestes or where he is and she is worried about him
- "Would not his daughter's appearance bring shame to King Agamemnon"
- She feels shamed at her current status and feels her dad would be disappointed
- She thinks her father cares more about her appearance than anything else which shows her vanity
- She feels shamed at her current status and feels her dad would be disappointed
- "Calls lovingly for her father lured to his death in a strangling snare, so I, father, weep for your dreadful end"
- She feels heartbroken and weeps over how her father's life ended
- Her father should have expected his wife to try to hurt him and Electra should avenge him
- She feels heartbroken and weeps over how her father's life ended
- "And your wife, welcomed you home not with crown or garland but with a two-edged sword"
- She is heartbroken that her mother tricked and got her father killed
- Clytemnestra was heartbroken about Iphigenia and Agamemnon shouldn't have expected her to be welcoming and forgiving
- She is heartbroken that her mother tricked and got her father killed
- "Look at me- my hair uncared for, my dress in tatters"
- She feels dirty and ashamed of her unkept appearance
- Vanity as she grew up as a princess
- She feels dirty and ashamed of her unkept appearance
- "Agamemnon killed by Aegisthus"
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