Agamemnon

Agamemnon Searching for just one definition to explain the meaning of the word, justice, is very difficult. There are various explanations for the word justice, but I found it to be very interesting that in many of the definitions the word, “just” is used to define the word justice. This becomes confusing and frustrating to any one person who is trying to seek out knowledge for this one word. The word “just,” in the dictionary is said to mean “fair”, so it only makes sense to say that the definition of the word justice means, “to have the quality of being fair or right”. This word does not have one universal meaning. This is exactly what each of the characters in Aeschylus’ book of plays, The Oresteia, did. It becomes very clear to see that each character holds different views on justice. The first play, Agamemnon, introduces us to Clytaemnestra who murders her husband because Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter. Agamemnon murders his daughter in order to satisfy her to the gods, Clytaemnestra kills her husband to achieve, and she says, “a masterpiece of Justice”. (Pg. 162, line 1430) Here it appears agamemnon, justice, just, mother, word, orestes, line, because, one, killing, actions, very, right, pg, oracle, husband, way, trial, plays, people, own, being, things, father’s, father, every, daughter, clytaemnestra, world, within, whether, situation, shows, seems, same