... is also true that she killed her husband, though that, too, can be blamed on the fact Agamemnon killed her daughter so he could go fight in the war. He also brought back with Cassandra who was to be his concubine. In my view Clytemnestra was a victim, not only of her insensitive husband and her scheming lover, but also her own wounded vanity and self-esteem. She belived that she could take the law in her own hand and murder her husband and call the act, something done at the will of the Gods. Even as the play goes on the chorus and other characters see her in very negative terms and in my opinion her actions do not prove them wrong. Even though she says that she is killing Agamemnon because he killed her daughter and gave another one away to go to war, she is forgetting that she also ...

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