QUOTE : Do you really think it is we who decide? If so, you are out of touch with reality. The whole army is waiting for Iphigeneia. They have seen the knife made, they have labored to erect the altar and make the processional way. The one thing that has kept them going, kept them cheerful and joking among themselves, is the prospect of this colorful and unusual spectacle, a king’s daughter on the slab. They may believe this will bring an end to the wind, but that is an abstract matter. It is the prospect of the show itself that has held them together, given them something to look forward to. They are only human, they have to have some color and excitement in their lives. If we cheat them out of it now, we’ll have a full-scale mutiny on our hands. No, let’s face it, if we want to save our own skins, she’ll have to be sacrificed now.