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Piety plays a big role in the play. It sets the scene for who is faithful to the gods and revenge or who is just plain stupid. Piety, to Electra is very important. She surely would love to avenge her father’s death but she can’t do it by herself. She needs Orestes there by her side to do it since it is the duty of the son to avenge the death of his father. In this case, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus are the murderers of Agamemnon’s death. Electra, having hope in Orestes and a strong devotion to the gods, she lives mourning her father’s death. Electra says “Never shall I depart from sorrow and tears and lamentation” (231-232). No one, even her own sister Chrysothemis, cannot make peace with Electra for Electra has “fear of the gods and respect for men..”(250). Electra is pious throughout the parts of the play the class has read through so far. She is a woman who doesn’t give in easily with out a fight and will fight till the end. Electra reaffirms this as she is in a stichomythia with her sister. “I’ll fall, if fall I mu