Agamemnon Blog 3

The idea of getting revenge for a past wrong is old as time, I've seen it in countless movies, books and plays. The idea that revenge is a dish best served cold seems all the more evident in the play Agamemnon. This is also not the first time I've seen a wife kill a husband, or a man come back from war victorious being killed. As for the matricide, this is seen in the movie Chicago, in fact the very idea is celebrated in the song and dance sequence "Cell Block Tango", the idea of murdering ones husband over a wrong against them is a very common theme running through different facets of performance, and or life itself. In Hamlet we see revenge as a very logical idea, because of the reasons behind it, his father was killed so to get back at those that had wronged him and his father, he takes it upon himself to seek revenge. In Kill Bill, the very title tells you the plot, which in a lot of ways is very similar to Agamemnon. Sometime ago Bill with the help of his army supposedly killed her family and her baby girl. We of course later find out the baby is alive, but the point still remains the baby girl, the love of Beatrix Kiddo's life was thought to be murdered before she was conceived. And so Beatrix seeks revenge, and to achieve this revenge she has to kill her lover Bill. In actuality we also see some of the Electra myth as well in the fact that Bill is a father figure. But there are countless examples of current media in our daily lives that has some resemblance to Agamemnon.