Analyse the theme of hereditary guilt in the play Agamemnon

Justify Agamemnon as a tragedy of Sin, Punishment and Redemption.

Answer: Every sin is punished but in the punishment innocents are hurt. “While Zeus abides enthroned… the wrongdoer suffers,” but often so does the wrongdoer’s children or wife or concubine. This “curse of the gods” is not unique to Aeschyls plays; it is the condition of our fallen world. Protestants in Northern Ireland cannot identify […]

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