Once Orestes arrived in the palace with Clytemnestra, Electra became extremely blood thirsty and craved to hear the screams of her dying mother. As Electra stood outside the room where Orestes was killing their mother she grew with blood lust screaming for Orestes to cut her down once more. ... When Aegisthus arrived and Orestes proceeded to kill him Electra refused to give him the rights he so very deserved. ... Although once she finds out Orestes is dead she loses what little perspective she had to begin with, now she begins to plot the death of the royal couple by herself and even asks her ...

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In the play Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O"Neal, certain elements in the play give parallels to Greek Mythology. The story that best proves this idea is the story of Agamemnon and his wife Clytemestra and their doomed marriage that ends in an affair and murder. It was dramatic ...

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