# Electra — Reading Questions & Answers

> Reading questions for Electra by Sophocles.

- [Why does Electra want revenge?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/electra_se/questions/why-does-electra-want-revenge.md): Electra wants revenge because she believes Argos lives under usurpers who killed her father. Clytemnestra’s reasons — Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia, his return with Cassandra — do not erase, for Electra, the fact of
- [Who kills Clytemnestra in Electra?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/electra_se/questions/who-kills-clytemnestra-in-electra.md): Orestes kills Clytemnestra. He returns secretly with Pylades, enters the palace on a pretext, and strikes after the trap against Aegisthus succeeds. Electra urges him on — famously encouraging him not to hesitate at the 
- [Who is Chrysothemis in Electra?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/electra_se/questions/who-is-chrysothemis.md): Chrysothemis is Electra’s sister, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the play’s voice of pragmatic survival. Where Electra chooses public mourning and open hatred of Aegisthus, Chrysothemis advises concealment: 
- [How does Electra end?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/electra_se/questions/how-does-electra-end.md): The play ends in triumph for the avengers and death for the rulers. Orestes’ party lures Aegisthus to view what he thinks is Orestes’ corpse; instead Orestes reveals himself and kills him. Inside the palace, Orestes — pr
- [What role does Apollo play in Electra?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/electra_se/questions/what-role-does-apollo-play.md): Apollo authorizes Orestes’ return and the killings through oracle. The divine command frames matricide as religious duty rather than mere private hatred, and it separates Sophocles’ Orestes from a spontaneous vigilante. 
- [Why does Orestes use disguise in Electra?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/electra_se/questions/why-does-orestes-use-disguise.md): Orestes uses disguise because he cannot enter Argos openly while Aegisthus and Clytemnestra hold power. The false story that he died abroad lets him approach the palace as a guest bearer of ashes, buying time to reconnoi
- [How does Electra develop the theme of Vengeance and Justice?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/electra_se/questions/how-vengeance-and-justice.md): Electra by Sophocles develops Vengeance and Justice across the chapters the companion marks for this theme.

The central plot revolves around Orestes and Electra's quest to avenge their father Agamemnon's murder, with th

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