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    Aeshylus Makes This Passage Effective by His Use of Dramatic Language

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    Aeschylus uses dramatic language and imagery to effectively summarize the aftermath of the Trojan War in Clytemnestra's speech. She describes the suffering of the Trojans in vivid detail, from the "cries in the crossfire" to women "kneeling by the bodies of the dead, embracing men and brothers." The Greeks are portrayed as relentless and brutal as they force the surviving Trojans into slavery. Clytemnestra's speech provides insight into the human cost of war and foreshadows her own fate.

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    Aeschylus uses dramatic language and imagery to effectively summarize the aftermath of the Trojan War in Clytemnestra's speech. She describes the suffering of the Trojans in vivid detail, from the "cries in the crossfire" to women "kneeling by the bodies of the dead, embracing men and brothers." The Greeks are portrayed as relentless and brutal as they force the surviving Trojans into slavery. Clytemnestra's speech provides insight into the human cost of war and foreshadows her own fate.

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    Aeschylus uses dramatic language and imagery to effectively summarize the aftermath of the Trojan War in Clytemnestra's speech. She describes the suffering of the Trojans in vivid detail, from the "cries in the crossfire" to women "kneeling by the bodies of the dead, embracing men and brothers." The Greeks are portrayed as relentless and brutal as they force the surviving Trojans into slavery. Clytemnestra's speech provides insight into the human cost of war and foreshadows her own fate.

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    Aeshylus Makes This Passage Effective by His Use of Dramatic Language

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    Aeschylus uses dramatic language and imagery to effectively summarize the aftermath of the Trojan War in Clytemnestra's speech. She describes the suffering of the Trojans in vivid detail, from the "cries in the crossfire" to women "kneeling by the bodies of the dead, embracing men and brothers." The Greeks are portrayed as relentless and brutal as they force the surviving Trojans into slavery. Clytemnestra's speech provides insight into the human cost of war and foreshadows her own fate.

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    Aeschylus makes this passage effective by his use of dramatic language, as well as dramatic effect.

    The first part of the passage is made effective by the use of a dramatic pause the citys ours . Its although Clytemnestra is making a triumphant war cry declaring the final victory. However shes not overboard on the triumph because she see the other side of the victory, with the killing and brutality that has taken place, in order to gain Troy.

    Pour oil and wine in the same bowl Oil and wine would separate because of their different viscosities. So this is a metaphor for how the Trojans and the Greeks are completely different- almost enemies and separate from each other. Clytemnestra goes on to say what have you friendship ironical what you get with this is a struggle to the end which is what troy is having.

    Aeschylus portrays Clytemnestra as a powerfully descriptive and visual person. I hear the cries in the crossfire rock the walls. She cant actually see any of this occurring, but she can imagine what is going on, and the suffering that is happening in Troy. This descriptiveness is akin to what she says earlier in the play about the journey of the flame. Its dramatically effective because of the use of emotive language as well as the alliteration criescrossfire

    The brutality of what has happened is then portrayed in the 5 lines proceeding this Kneeling by the bodies of the deadembracing men and brothers it is so powerful and dramatically effective because shes comparing the people that have been slaughtered, to the people of her own race. It gives a humanizing effect on the reader. The emotiveness of the language sobbing kneelingdead

    The yoke that constricts their last breath is another example of how Aeschylus presents the Trojans plight. Whilst the small children and the women are sobbing and mourning over their dead family their darkest hour- they are forced into slavery. Their last free breath is spent mourning a war that has been unrelenting for 10 years. It portrays the Greeks as being extremely unpleasant towards those who, as Aeschylus continues to remind the audience, are the same as themselves. These lines also portray a certain amount of foreshadowing on Clytemnestras part. Its indicating that she knows that Cassandra (the slave girl who appears in the play later on) is actually being captured by Agamemnon as they speak. This foreshadowing appears throughout the play, and gives the audience a subtle insight into what is to come.

    Another extremely powerful dramatic tool is when Aeschylus depersonalises the destructive nature of the Greeks. The labour of battle sets them down, ravenous, to breakfast on the last remains of Troy. In these lines, they cease to be human form, and instead are described in animal form. This is comparable to that of a dog. The reason that this is so dramatic is because of the stark contrast between her vivid descriptions of how the Greeks ravage the Trojans.

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