Ag Role of Women

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Created on: 09-12-12 16:26

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role and portrayal of WOMEN
- "That woman" (the watchman)
  - BAD -woman, GOOD -masculine imagery
    - "Spoken like a man my lady" (Leader)
    - "Just like a woman" (Chorus)
- "The ox is on my tongue" (the watchman)
  - Ox is a very masculine reference for a woman
    - shows she is powerful, threatening and demanding just like a man
  - Women are cheaters and Kings are good fighting at war
    - OR Aeschylus feminist? WOMEN -clever + got away with it, MEN- stupid and blind
- "Memory womb of Fury child-avenging Fury" (The chorus)
  - NO CONSIDERATION
    - Cly didn't get a say in Iphigenia death
- "And you have proof?" (Leader)
  - women: GULLIBLE UNRELIABLE
    - "Rumors voiced by women come to nothing" (Chorus)
      - MORAL TEACHING
- "Welcome home my lord, my good lord" (Clyt)
  - WOMEN: TWO FACED
- "bride of spears"
  - WOMEN: DANGEROUS (Helen)
- Cassandra as spearprize -women treated as property
  - Not shown affection; Ag doesn't address Cly for ages -even after 10 years!!
- "I love the man" (Cly)
  - INTELLIGENT, makes Ag believes she is talking about him
- "Apollo, my destroyer" (Cassandra)
  - Women treated as sex objects
    - Cassandra punished because she didn't sleep with Apollo
- "the death-blow deep" (Ag)
  - WOMEN: BRUTAL
    - Usually kill by poison
- "Words endless words ive said" (Cly)
  - Women, hypocites
    - She claims Ag doesn't love her, but she cheats and kills
- Masculine, threatening, powerful, no consideration,property, gullible dangerous, clever, sex objects, hypocrites
He believes Cly is not worthy of her title as Queen.
- "That woman" (the watchman)
  - BAD -woman, GOOD -masculine imagery
    - "Spoken like a man my lady" (Leader)
    - "Just like a woman" (Chorus)

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