Electra

Electra has had no peace since her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aigisthus killed her father Agamemnon. While Clytemnestra and Aigisthus shamelessly live out their new relationship and rule unrepentantly at the head of the state, Electra seeks bloody revenge. Her sister Chrysothemis refuses to take part in her sister's murderous plans; she has resigned herself to the new ruling conditions and puts the new peace above personal revenge. Elektra's only hope is to wait for her brother Orest's return and hope to find in him their father's longed-for avenger. The news of Orest's death leads Elektra to carry out the murder of her mother herself.

Sophocles places Elektra's pain at the loss of her father and her isolation at the center of the drama.