Willie Ho

I discovered Agamemnon to be an enjoyable play. It is hard to believe we use this as a form of education when it was previously, at the time it was written, wrote for the purpose of entertainment. The play was filled with duplicity and many turns of events. What I like most about the Greek tragedy was the chorus. The chorus never failed to supply me with the information needed to understand the next scene completely. Sometimes the chorus went on for pages and it got rather annoying because I often wondered whether I missed a name somewhere in the middle because maybe someone else could have been saying the lines. While the chorus remained informative, the individual lines of the characters were much more entertaining because it was more like a conversation than the monotone chorus.

I would also like to note some oddities of the play. For a play titled "Agamemnon," Agamemnon himself does not appear as much as I thought. Rather, Clytemnestra appears the most. Clytemnestra and Agamemnon don't seem to match as husband and wife. They speak to each other so formally. Clytemnestra seems to be more affectionate to Aegisthus.

On a random note, it was kind of funny when Agamemnon was being killed and he says, "Help! I'm struck again!" But then T realized that violence was not shown on stage so he probably had to narrate it and it wasn't funny after that.