Abstract
Junker discusses Sophocles' Electra, which presents as its main character a woman, who is tortured by the remembrance of things past. In Sophocles' play there is considerably more interest shown in Electra herself and focusing results in a magnification of Electra's mourning for her father along with a sustained meditation upon how this mourning results in her inability to live, in any full sense, with the knowledge of his death.