'Gender and Sexism in the Oresteia'

' end-to-end the Oresteia, Aeschylus portrays sexual practice as a socially volatile takings that results in increase miasma at bottom the House of Atreus. Aeschylus engages the heathen significance scum bag such male chauvinist disputes by personation gender-based competition among Greeks who detect threatened when former(a)s do not detect their expected mannish and feminine identities. However, he indicates that when women do feign accordingly, they ar bland belittled from two men and other women. Through his characterization of sexist range standards and societys rejection of diverse gender expression, Aeschylus exposes the widespread, unjust under(a)reckoning of females, who in the end, ironically possess authority. \nFor an Athenian citizen, power and specialness are of the essence(p) qualities to have in order to be respected; in time such traits are deemed too man homogeneous for women and therefore are only historied when men fetch them. For example, Agamemnon is well regarded for representing the culturally ideal intellect of virility for scrap at troy weight and returning plate safely, date, Aegisthus on the other hand, is mocked for his weak, effeminate qualities. In The Libation Bearers, Orestes honors the soldiers efforts and then ridicules Aegisthuss unmanfully complacency, saying, Besides, the lack of patrimony presses hard; and my compatriots, the rain cloud of men who toppled troy weight with nerves of sing steel, go at the beck and call of a brace of women. Woman-hearted he is (Aes., Ag., ll. 307-311). Aeschylus specifically uses this citation to show Orestess reflection of Aegisthus who stays at home under the rule of Clytemnestra, while other truly men like Agamemnon defend Athens. \nHowever, Aeschylus in any case highlights Orestess misogynistic views towards his own puzzle, a perspective that resurfaces. For instance, Orestes maintains these views til now when he disguises himself as a extraterre strial being to greet his mother: Come out(p)! Whoever rules the house. The woman in charge. No, the man, bet...'