Question

In an emotional speech, this character laments, “No mother did that for you. No nurse. No slave. I.” while cradling a funeral urn. This woman’s cries of “OIMOI MOI” are left untranslated in Anne Carson’s version of a play in which (-5[1])this woman often argues with her sister (-5[1])Chrysothemis. (10[2]-5[1])This woman (10[1])asks a chorus (10[1])of slave-women if it is right to ask (10[1])the gods for “one who will take life for life” (-5[1])before (-5[1])pouring (-5[1])wine onto a grave. (10[3]-5[6])Euripides (10[1]-5[2])parodied a scene (-5[3])in which a lock of hair and a footprint (10[1])lead this character (10[1])to recognize a man who has secretly returned (10[1])to Argos. (10[1]-5[7])This woman (-5[1])assists (-5[1])her brother in a plot to kill the king (-5[1])Aegisthus (10[1])and his wife. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this woman who helps Orestes (10[1])take revenge (10[2])on their mother Clytemnestra (10[3])in (10[1])The Libation Bearers (10[1]-5[1])from (10[1])Aeschylus’s Oresteia. (10[2]-5[1])■END■ (10[6]0[12])

ANSWER: Electra (The first two sentences refer to Sophocles’s Electra.)
<JK, European Literature>
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