Agamemnon
...s his daughter to the gods. After he kills her, the winds pick up and he heads of to Troy. He sacrifices his daughter because he is the king, and he must do anything in his power to get to Troy. The curse on the house of Atreus is already on him, so what he has just done, confirms his death in the near future. The curse on the house of Atreus was brought upon this family when Agamemnon’s father and Aegisthus’ father had a fight over a girl and who was to be king. Aegisthus is Agamemnon’s cousin. When Aegisthus’ father lost the fight, he came back to Agamemnon’s father, Atreus. Atreus then fed Aegisthus’ father his own children. < In seeming a glad day of fresh meat slain and good cheer; then he served my father his own children’s flesh to feed on. For he carved away the extremities, hands feet and cut the flesh apart, covered them served in a dish to my father at his table apart, who with no thought for the featureless meal before him ate that ghastly food whose curse works now before your eyes. > Line 1592-1598. After eating half of the meal, he realized that it was his own children that he was eating. Furious, he curses the house of Atreus with the curse of death. < He spat the dead meat from him with a cry, and reeled spurning the table back to heel with strength the curse: “Thus crash in ruins all the seed of Pleisthenes.” > Line 1600-1603. The curse means that all the descendent of Atreus will die from this curse. Meaning Agamemnon and all of his children. During Agamemnon’s 10-year absence, His wife Clyteamnestra is plotting to get back at him for what he has done to their daughter. < How else could I, arming hat against hateful men disguised in seeming tenderness, fence high the nets of ruin beyond overleaping? Thus to me the conflict born of ancient bitterness is not a thing new thought upon, but pondered deep in time > Line 1384-1378. She has been plotting with Aegisthus, who also has a good reason to kill Agamemnon. All of this because, “the doer must suffer”. 10 years after the Trojan War broke out, Agamemnon returns. But he is not alone on board the ship, he brought back a prisoner of war. Cassandra is her name. She is more of a new friend to Agamemnon than she is a prisoner of war. When Clyteamne...