Electra

Electra is Sophocles' tragedy centered on the daughter of Agamemnon, who continues to mourn him while living under the authority of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. News and apparent evidence of Orestes's death deepen her isolation before recognition transforms despair into renewed action. The siblings' revenge answers a long-standing demand for justice but does so through further killing within the family. Electra's uncompromising speech gives the play much of its emotional force. Sophocles concentrates on the cost of sustained grief and the narrowing of a life around a single obligation.