Meaning cannot be created without a reader to thus ‘create’ it, nor can a reader do so without a text to first activate a reading. Ground-breaking feminist thinkers such as Judith Butler can provide us with a rough framework by which we may explore gender identity in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Her exploration of the difference between biological sex and gender identity lay a foundation by which gender can be defined – namely, as a historical situation rather than as a natural fact (Butler, 1988). Butler’s exploration into performativity and its subsequent relation on gender formation can offer a richer, better-supported analysis of Clytemnestra and Cassandra as two characters that stand on conflicting ends of a fluctuating gender
Meaning cannot be created without a reader to thus ‘create’ it, nor can a reader do so without a text to first activate a reading. Ground-breaking feminist thinkers such as Judith Butler can provide us with a rough framework by which we may explore gender identity in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Her exploration of the difference between biological sex and gender identity lay a foundation by which gender can be defined – namely, as a historical situation rather than as a natural fact (Butler, 1988). Butler’s exploration into performativity and its subsequent relation on gender formation can offer a richer, better-supported analysis of Clytemnestra and Cassandra as two characters that stand on conflicting ends of a fluctuating gender