Electra engages in a fierce verbal battle with her mother, Clytemnestra, regarding the murder of her father, Agamemnon. The scene explores themes of justice, familial betrayal, and the cycle of vengeance.
ELECTRA: You killed my father. What more need I say?
CLYTEMNESTRA: I killed him, yes. I do not deny it. But Justice killed him, not I alone.
ELECTRA: How can you speak of justice? You who sleep with the murderer of your husband?
CLYTEMNESTRA: I have suffered wrong too. Your father sacrificed your si
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