| Orest appears on stage early so he can survey the dysfunction of his ancestral home before accomplishing his matricidal act. |
| From the matrixial angle, matricidal phantasy is akin to suicidal phantasy. |
| The Tories had not recovered from their treacherous act of the matricidal back-stabbing of Margaret Thatcher, a Prime Minister who had led them to three victories. |
| The matricidal vengeance taken by Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is mentioned in passing, and the work ends with Athena's establishment of mortal justice and her conversion of the Furies into the more benign Eumenides. |
| They aren't, however, in a military vein and range in diversity from the carnage caused by a marauding horde of escaped circus animals to a matricidal five-year-old. |
| Physically too, when Elektra urges her to join the matricidal plotting. |
