We progressively learned more about the world as the characters became more equipped in their roles. Jennifer Saint had a unique way of doing her world building.
Elektra is the youngest daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, she still holds the innocence of thinking that her father can do no wrong and then does not have the understanding of her mother’s depression, therefore causing resentment to grow in her.
Nevertheless, Cassandra’s story was of a woman who is a black sheep and trying to find where she belongs in the world. Cassandra, she was unnecessary to this story and I think it would have been no different without her, just the story of a mother and a daughter. She is a woman, a queen, who is having to deal with the grief of a terrible action committed by the one person who should never have done it. The characters here are very complex and I am sure have a lot more depth than the original Greek stories that they took part in. Elektra longs for her father to return from war and have her life go back to the way it was before Helen was stolen and the Trojan War. Cassandra can see visions of what will happen to her city but no one will believe her.
Clytemnestra is betrayed by her husband in the worst way possible. The book ‘Elektra’ tells the story of three women who are all seemingly connected by one war.
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