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This passage occurs at the very end of the play, after Orestes leads Aegisthus into the palace to kill him in the exact place of Agamemnon’s murder, leaving Electra alone with the chorus. This quote is important because it again refers to the curse of the House of Atreus and implies that it is to blame for Electra’s suffering. However, the chorus also implies that Electra is free, both from her grief and from the confines of ancient Greece’s sexist gender roles. As the “seed of Atreus,” and therefore his direct descendant, Electra is still vulnerable to Pelops’s curse just…