Wrong and Right
So since Agamemnon was murdered and his children were left to their mother who married their uncle, that makes him their stepdad? Honestly, this is kind of disgusting. Clytemnestra has to be the grossest mom in the history of Greek mythology, maybe right behind Oedipus' mother. What kind of mother leaves their children in that kind of state, basically fatherless and in mourning of Agamemnon? I think that the fact that she left her children with no resolve in the murder of her husband is what inspired them the most to come to the conclusion to murder her.
They honestly need therapy after all of this and I think that murdering her and avenging their father's death is the closest thing they had to it. We see from the start that Orestes is trying to mourn and grieve his father properly, but he is struggling to do so. Throughout the entire book he is struggling to find just the right way to avenge his father and the murder of his mother and her lover is the only way he feels that resolve. I think that he finally got what he and Electra needed after the murder of their mother. What would YOU do, if your mother had murdered your father? Would you protect your mother, or avenge your father? Why?
P.S. I commented on Anna Kate and Moriah's
You pose a good question, a challenging one at that. If faced with that situation, I would try to sympathize with my mother especially if my father had already murdered one of my siblings. Why lose both parents to the same, repeated cycle of revenge when you could hold the power to stop it?
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