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Abstract
This thesis is a comparative analysis on the roles of women in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. The first chapter focuses on Clytemnestra through Hélène Cixous’s concept of “bisexuality,” as described in her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa.” The second chapter focuses on Tamora, Queen of the Goths, through the same lens. The third chapter focuses on the violence and sexual violence inflicted upon the young female characters of Lavinia, Cassandra, and Iphigenia, and how they succeed or do not succeed in making their stories heard and believed by the male characters around them.