During the first few lines of the play, it is explicitly stated by the watchman how Clytemnestra has been acting while her husband was away at war. To say shortly, not as she should be. “That woman-she maneuvers like a man” (line 13) is said by the watchman. It can be inferred from …show more content…
There are so many different ideas and customs of ancient Greece that it makes it very interesting to read and analyze. The concept of the gender roles that is drawn out in this play is carelessly broken by many different characters, as if they give no thought about disrupting dike. Clytemnestra thinks only about her own vengeance and measure in this play, her need to avenge her daughter, and not how she should be acting as a proper woman. By doing this she disrupts dike greatly, and also causes a long line of vengeance in her house, as her son now must come back to kill her to avenge his dad