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Clytaemnestra and Medea Two women seeking justice Clytaemnestra and Medea are two women who are seeking justice for a wrong committed by their husbands Clytaemnestras husband Agamemnon did not wrong here directly but rather indirectly Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigeneia in order to calm the Thracian winds For Clytaemnestra this brought much hatred towards Agamemnon Here Agamemnon had betrayed Clytaemnestra and their daughters trust and for that she sought revenge Medeas husband Jason had dishonored her with his unfaithfulness Medea sought to kill everything that was important in Jasons life in order to seek justice Clytaemnestra and Medea are similar but yet different in the ways that they define justice setup up their victims carry out the just sentence and in the end justify their actions Clytaemnestra feels the only justice for the death of her daughter Iphigeneia is the death of Agamemnon Act for an act wound for wound is the only justification that Clytaemnestra cans see Agamemnon 1555 Medea also sees death as the only justification for her husbands unfaithfulness To stay here and in this I will make dead bodies Of three of my enemies -father the girl and my husbandMedea 370-71 Medea says here that she wishes to kill Kreon the father of the princess Jason will wed the princess and Jason Although she never kills Jason she does successfully kill Kreon and the princess Medea later says that she must also kill her children to cause Jason pain In their defining justice Clytaemnestra and Medea both feel death is the only justice However with Medea she does not intend to kill Jason In order for Clytaemnestra to seek justice for her daughters death she had to make Agamemnon feel as though nothing was wrong Clytaemnestra gives a big speech when Agamemnon arrives telling everybody how great the love she bore her husband and the agonizing grief she had suffered in his absenceHamilton 253 She laid red tapestries
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