Unbarring Love

During the fall of Troy, the Trojans were attacked by soldiers that came out of the wooden horse. Most of them were drunk so the Greeks easily defeated them. On that part of the story Aeneas prepares to fight the Greeks because they were out powered and about to lose at that time. Meanwhile, his wife Creusa disagrees with his decision to fight. His wife begs him to consider her and his son Ascanius first. This part of the story is somewhat similar with one of the scene in the story of Illiad. It was when Andromache pleased hector to fight with Achilles. I read that Hector killed Achilles’ best friend who was Patroclus. Hector wasn't pleased by Andromache and he fought with Achilles, man to man until he was killed

The two scenes are common. First of all because of the characters they were both couples. It also shows an unpredictable love of a wife for her husband. Creusa and Andromache both stopped their husbands from entering a dangerous situation. The two of them showed much love and affection for the one that they love. Unfortunately, the affection that they showed were not enough to make things alright.

The scene might seem the same but there are still differences. One of those were the reason and purposes of Aeneas and Hector. Another is that Creusa was able to pursue her husband but Andromache wasn’t. There are more differences. But like what I have said a billion times ago Aeneid is a good story and this scene added more and I also think the scene form Iliad also acted like that. 

Ultimate Defeat and Terrible Loss

The story Aeneid really do showcase lots of “Ultimate Defeat and Terrible Loss”.  The story of Aeneid has shown many the fact of no longer having something. In terms of extreme deaths or literally losing something. It also exhibited ideas relating to being defeated or beaten.  Aeneid really supports this ideas.

Some details that we can refer to are, first of all the fall of Troy. It showed loss in terms of losing your own land in Aeneas’ and the other Trojan’s part. They were defeated violently by the Greeks. Some more parts are when Aeneas repeatedly lost all of his love ones all throughout the story. Another was when Dido lost Aeneas. Lastly, when Turnus got defeated by Aeneas as well as Juno. There are more details that can support this idea since Aeneid is quite long.

I am one hundred percent confident that a bunch of details from Aeneid supports that this story has the theme related to ultimate defeat and terrible loss. Also because of this theme the story became more interesting and adventurous. For me this two themes collaborated perfectly with the other themes to make one great masterpiece.  

Special Sympathy

It is hard to imagine that the fall of Troy was just because of an apple. It may sound simple but there’s a deeper story behind all of that. A simple happening that caused wrath from a goddess. I will not state the whole story anymore, I’ll jump to the part where it will happen. In the part where the soldiers came out of the wooden horse to attack the Trojans I felt pity for them.

While reading, I imagined the scene. Thinking that many soldiers, women and children will be attacked unprepared the scene looks horrible. I pity them more because they thought that the wooden horse was a gift but instead they were betrayed. I think almost everyone hates that feeling. So for short I really hated the Greeks for doing that, but what can I do they have their own reasons and purposes.

Even though I know that Aeneas will be able to find a new city my feeling towards that part of the story didn’t changed. It changed when I realized that if Troy will not be defeated there will be no story for the Aeneid. Still, I felt pity for the Trojans because of what they suffered. Even they found a new land many of them had shed blood. For short I really felt sympathy for the Trojans.