Consider Aeschylus’s use of imagery and other figurative language throughout the trilogy.

The use of Imagery in Oresteia is like a darkness imagery. When Clytaemestra kills her husband, Agamemnon, she uses words like “spattered” and “Violent driven rain” creating a horror image of her and the room being covered in blood. Another example of imagery is in The Libation Bearers, Clytaemestra had a dream of giving birth to a snake which turns around a bites her. The snake resembled Orestes, her son, and that he is coming to get revenge for her killing his father. The torches light up in the house as a sign that he is coming. A form of irony is Clytemnestra tries to keep Electra, her daughter, in the city preventing her from getting revenge. Ironically, this backfires when Orestes returns and Electra helps him on a way to sneak into the palace so that he can murder Clytemnestra.