Idols In Christa Wolf's Cassandra

In the novel Cassandra by Christa wolf, we are told the story of Cassandra before she is murdered by Clytemnestra after she got captured and enslaved after the fall of Troy. Being already regarded as an outsider, Cassandra begin to isolate herself from her own family as we move through the novel and also cuts herself off from the society she lives in through the idols that the Trojans dearly believe in. These idols served as a way to take hold of the Trojans and make them believe in something thus, giving them all a purpose in life. As the belief grows stronger, more idols such as “Helen and the Trajan horse” also beginning to surface to give the people a purpose which is like believing in deception, made up idols in order to empower individuals
The more she kept arguing and fighting about revealing what Helen truly is, what it serves for and the true story behind it, the more they drove apart from each other. All due to her disbelief and her desired inability to conform to the false idols, she is perceived as mad and the Trojans even stated that “she’s crazy, that one”. Moving on throughout the novel, the author begins to outline the irony in Cassandra being labeled as mad when in fact, she is the most clairvoyant of all since she was cursed by Apollo with the gift to prophesy. Therefore, despise all, Cassandra still remains the mad women who can see things that the rest can’t seem to see; the truth. In conclusion, the novel Cassandra by Christa Wolf is focused and centered on the idea of even false idols serving their purpose which is to give people the strength and faith to pursue a specific as well as common goal. Furthermore, the irony presented in this novel highlights the idea that although Cassandra has less tolerance and is less acceptant of the false idols thus making her a mad woman in the eyes of everyone else, she still remains the one and only ready to accept and welcome the