ELEKTRA is a tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, about murder and revenge. Agamemnon, the father of the house, was killed by his unfaithful wife, Clytaemnestra, with the help of her sinister lover, Aegisthus, as retribution for having sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods. Meanwhile, her son Orestes was spirited away by their faithful servant Tutor in order to safeguard him against a similar fate. Though Clytaemnestra's weak-willed daughter, Chrysothemis, has made peace with the situation, her defiant sister, Elektra, still bemoans her father's fate. Elektra awaits the return of the grown Orestes in the hopes that he will avenge their father's death.
