Agamemnon

Agamemnon was an interesting play. It was definitely different from any of the modern plays I've seen in that the chorus has such a large part explaining and narrating. It seems like the play is more dependent on the chorus than on the actual characters to expound everything. The play seems very short, especially when you consider that no sooner does Cassandra get to Agamemnon's palace and realize the history of the place and her impending death, than it happens. She arrives and prophesizes her own death and Agamemnon's at the hand of Clytemnestra for revenge of the daughter sacrificed, then immediately goes into the palace and is killed. I felt a lot of pity for her since she knew what was going to happen. I didn't feel a lot of pity for Clytemnestra. Yes, Agamemnon killed her daughter, so I understand why she killed him for that, but it seems hypocritical that she also murders Cassandra because she was sleeping with her husband when she herself is friendly with Aegisthus.