Ilektra1962/I

Elektra:
[eulogy to Aegisthus] You, treacherous assassin. You, who threw both of us into a dark solitude, speak up and tell me, what did we do to you? Coward. You kept yourself away from battle to crawl into a stranger's bed. What did you think? That a woman who dishonors her husband can remain faithful to another man? But you knew, you and my mother, that your love was stained with blood, and you lived together as criminals, deceiving each other. And wherever you went, people said, "There goes Klytaemnistra's man. Here is her toy, her slave. SHE is the ruler of her household." But you were so insignificant that you didn't feel humiliated to be the toy of a woman. You threw yourself into the pleasures of life and walked round as an important man. You only thought about dancing and the women who you seduced with your libidinous eyes. You pretty-boy. Didn't you ever think that everything comes to an end, and that a man's character is his only help when Fate rolls the dice? Get lost, you fool. The way you lived brought forth the way you died.