Three stages of Achilles Achilles is a great warrior who faces many different situations in his life. These scenarios changed him into who he has become in his life according to the Iliad. Throughout the Iliad his emotions range anger‚ rage‚ and compassion. When he gets angry it’s because of Agamemnon taking Briseis from him. He gets rage from when the Trojans kill his cousin. Achilles becomes compassionate when the King of Troy comes to ask for his son’s body back. At the beginning of the war
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poem‚ The Iliad. Hectors fatal mistake was that he chose pride over his own well being in the battle with Achilles. He could have taken safety within the walls of Troy‚ or disappeared into a mass of his comrades‚ but Hector chose to stand his ground and confront Achilles. "Ah for a young man all looks fine and noble if he goes down in war...he lies there dead...but whatever death lays bare‚ all wounds are marks of glory." If Hector had salvaged his pride and
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The Trojan War was one the largest and most important matters in Greek Mythology. The war itself took place in the city of Troy which happened in the Bronze Age. The war lasted for approximately ten years. Ancient Greeks treated the Trojan War as a historical event and dated it back to 1194-1184 BC. The Trojan War was fought between the Greeks and the defenders of The City of Troy. Most of the Trojan War was siege and the city was able to hold off the invaders for such a long time because the fortifications
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Helen of Troy I. CHARACTERS Major Characters: Achilles- Stanley Baker Agamemnon- Robert Douglas Andromache- Patricia Marmont Hector- Harry Andrews Helen of Troy- Rossana Podestà MenelausNiall MacGinnis Paris- Jacques Sernas Patroclus- Terence Longdon Priam- Cedric Hardwicke Ulysses- Torin Thatcher Minor Characters: Aeneas- Ronald Lewis Polydorus- Robert Brown Alpheus- TonioSelwart Andraste- Brigitte Bardot Andros- Eduardo Ciannelli Cassandra- Janette Scott Cora- Barbara Cavan Dancer- George
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attentively in the film will understand and capture the idea of character Achilles. Aside Achilles there are other important characters in the film such as Agamemnon – ruler of Greece‚ Menelaus – king of Mycenae‚ Paris – prince of Troy‚ Hector – brother of Paris‚ and Helen – the cause of great war. Each character has strengths and weaknesses. Agamemnon was a proud and aggressive king because of that hundreds of his men died and they’re defeated by Trojans‚ an apparent weakness
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friend‚ Patroclus‚ becomes distant as he struggles to remain emotionally intact‚ being unable to grasp onto the warrior and the leader he once was. Similarly‚ Priam’s better judgement and role as the King of Troy are clouded by the slaying of his son‚ Hector‚ acting irrationally‚ by conjuring up a precarious journey virtuously from a vision as a result of the trauma he has experienced from witnessing Achilles actions on his son. Consequently it takes the proceedings of Priam ransoming his son’s body to
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out upon the body of Hector‚ where he would leave it out to rot and let nature’s wrath plague Hector’s body. Unlike a normal being‚ Achilles was never given the tools to cope and deal with his emotions‚ “never permitting himself to betray to others what he felt “‚ instead he was always told to keep then locked up inside. When he could no longer control his emotions‚ everything that was inside‚ everything that was locked away from the world‚ came out. Taking his rage upon Hector was at the time the
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Andromache’s father and seven brothers fell to the hands Achilles when their town was taken by him; her mother‚ ransomed at a high‚ and was slain by Artemis. During the Trojan War her husband was slain by Achilles‚ Andromache dealt with Hectors death pretty well‚ she believes that "Better death than life in bitterness. No pain feels death‚ which has no sense of ills: but who is prospered‚ and has fallen on woe‚ forlorn of soul strays for from older bliss" (Hurt-Wilkie‚ 245). Andromache’s
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because‚ if Paris does not get into the war‚ all the people will say that “Helene look at your coward husband‚ he did not take risk for you at the battle field”. On the other hand Helene said that all the war occurred because of her. When talking with Hector she told that “I wish all the happened things did not happened”. She did not realistic in this situation because when they escaped from her husband’s country they know what will be their action’s results so her words are not realistic. Her words
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during the Trojan War. Trojans and Greeks fight in the war‚ which begins because Paris steals the beautiful Helen away from Menelaos. This angers Menelaos and sparks a war. During the battle‚ the demigod Achilles will eventually kill the Trojan leader Hector. Achilles is the real tragic hero of The Iliad for several reasons. Achilles’s ignorance results in his downfall. All tragic heroes have a major personal flaw‚ and for Achilles‚ it is his ignorance. In Book I‚ Achilles and Agamemnon get in a fight
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