Justification of Actions

Clytaemestra was justified in her actions because she was wronged. Her daughter was killed and no legal justice was going to be given to her. Women are not given the same social standing as men, so they must find other ways of justice. For instance, in those times, if a woman is being beaten by his wife, then instead of going to the authorities, she might poison him. The laws of those times were not meant to protect women. So women had to be conniving and look out for themselves. Women could not defend themselves physically so they found other venues of defense. The contradiction of Clytaemestra is she spent all of Agamemnon avenging her daughter, claiming to love her daughter but in The Libation, she had enslaved her other daughter and never retrieved her other son after she sent him away. She killed her husband because of her love for her daughter then denies her other children their birthright.

I think if the law does not protect a group of individuals then that group of individuals has to protect themselves. The law that doesn’t govern them normally would not agree. The law that doesn’t protect a group of people always seems to judge or punish them harsher then the laws they do protect.

The laws need to initiate a harsh and stable set of laws that reprimand vigilantism. That way people will feel less inclined to take matters into their own hands but still feel a sense of justice for how they were wronged.