Revenge and Violence to CassandraIn "Mycenae Lookout", Seamus Heaney tells the story of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Cassandra after the Trojan War. "Cassandra" is the second part of "Mycenae Lookout" and tells of Cassandra, the unfortunate prophetess of Apollo, who is captured by Agamemnon at the end of the war and brought back to Mycenae as a slave. The fate of Cassandra and the House of Atreus collides with Agamemnon's return to Mycenae, where his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus plot his murder. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra both seek revenge: Clytemnestra for the sacrifice of her daughter and Aegisthus for the overthrow of her father and for the sins of Agamemnon's father, Atreus, of whom Aegisthus was the only survivor. While Heaney probably drew on many classical sources for his poetry, the section entitled "Cassandra" seems particularly drawn from Aeschylus's work Agamemnon. Heaney compresses the events of Agamemnon into just 64 lines but still retains, partly through the play's use of binaries, the classic and timeless story of revenge and a violent vicious cycle. "Cassandra" begins with the description of Cassandra. She is described as she might look like a prisoner of war, "dirty" (4), "ravaged" (6-7), and "overrun by the camp" (12), rather than marble-smooth and serene, as one might expect from a classical Greek. figure to appear. Heaney focuses on her appearance and describes her clothes, "her little breasts," and the state of her head in lines four to ten. It is only when she gets to line 11, however, that she comments on what may have happened to her while she was a prisoner of the Trojan War. “Camp-fucked,” with its sense of sexual violence, implies that, along with physical abuse and bondage, Cassandra also suffered rape (12). In lines eight through thirteen, Heaney chooses words like "punk," "char-eyed," and "gawk" to succinctly illustrate Cassandra's position in the House of Atreus: she is an alien, traumatized by the destruction she has witnessed and stunned. to the embarrassment of her descent from princess of Troy to slave of Mycenae. The speaker says, “People / might feel / a lack / truth” in Cassandra (14-17). This paragraph gets to the point with the word “focus,” which is used as a verb.