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Some things to consider in writing your Agamemnon Essay:
1) King Agamemnon is a tragic, not a "melodramatic" protagonist. His choosing to walk on the tapestries is an overt act that underscores the character's Hubris.
Clytemnaestra is going to hill him whether he walks on the tapestries or not, but by tempting him to act in denial of his public statements, she exposes her husband's inflated sense of self-importance, and reveals the truth about this man: a veteran of a war from which he appears to have learned nothing about himself or his place in the world!
2) Note that in the final scene (lines 1391 to end of play), Clytemnaestra, in her dialogue with Leader and Chorus, attempts to justify what she has done by reassuring them of her desire to end the curse on the House of Atre4us by "purg(ing) it from our halls...." (line 1605).
3) Immediately following this exchange, Aegisthus enters, gets into a heated argument with Leader/Chorus (especially at the name, "orestes") and, just before his men draw their swords(!) to attack the old men, appears to be temporarily stayed by Clytemnaestra's plea to stop the killing: "No more, my dearest,/no more grief." And the play ends with both sides cursing, spitting, and yelling at one another!
So, Clytemnaestra's plan to bring to an end the killing and the violence is just a wee bit unsuccessful!
("The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men/Gang aft agley./An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,/For promis'd joy!")
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