What Is The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia?

In the poem Iphigenia by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord and the painting "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia" by Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista They explain the idea the with all of your actions come consequences and Agamemnon's consequence was the sacrifice of his daughter. They took this story and created how they saw it because told an important lesson that needs to be taught to common day people. Iphigenia was a young girl whose father upset the goddess Artemis during the Trojan war and had to be sacrificed to make the goddess happy. She was put into poems and paintings because her is relevant to common day in the aspect that with your actions come consequences. Meaning that if you make any decisions or actions that will affect the future. Whether it be good or bad; now or later the decision to do something has affected you and in Iphigenia case someone else.
The poem shows a cut of feeling of her last hopes dying as she is about to die. It shows a feeling of death as a knife is being cut …show more content…
Tennyson's poem showed how Iphigenia died by using the line "One drew a sharp knife through my tender throat." Both show How her father was regretting his actions because he is hiding his face in the painting and the poem said "My father held his hand upon his face." The poem says that the kings and spectators are all waiting to see her die. The painting show kings, warriors, and other spectators standing around just to see her die. They share the aspect that Iphigenia was sacrificed because of her father's actions and that death is the scariest thing that life will encounter. The poem and the painting choose different ways to show the story but still displayed the same concept that with all actions are consequences. The scene the poem depicts is near water because it talks about the quivering masts. In the painting there is no visible water, but the sky in the background is