This arrogance leads him to becoming slightly obsessed with retaining his pride and not letting anyone slight his bravado. To uphold his name and pride, he mauls his opponents without remorse, heroically takes on the river Xanthus, and even sacrifices twelve Trojan men at Patrocius’ funeral (Cook, 57). Though finally in the final chapter, Achilles shows his remorseful side when he’s reminded of his father when Priam asks for Hector’s defiled body back (Cook, 48). Achilles encompasses many traits immanent in the culture of his time period, mostly of honor and glory for his name, but he also relinquishes those traits with a forgiving side of remorse and grief, even though it usually ends in intense anguish. On the contrary, Hamlet embraces several of these characteristics in the form of a very different character.
On the page prior to the last page of the book, Alison refers to her life as an “inverted oedipal complex”. This refers to how she both estranges and identifies herself with her father through the concept of their shared tribulations brought on by their homosexuality. Though her father often seemed distant, he was an equally loving father some of the time. The most obvious reference to Greek mythology, and the most blatantly apparent in the final page of the story, is that of Daedalus and Icarus. In this myth, Daedalus invents a pair of wax and feather wings in order for he and his son, Icarus to escape from the labyrinth, another invention of Daedalus’s. Even after Daedalus warned Icarus not to, Icarus flew too
Caesar was given a crown three times and the people wanted him to have it, but all three times he rejected it to look good in front of the people. Brutus never wants a dictator for the republic because his father worked hard to keep Rome a republic: “My ancestors did from the streets of Rome the Tarquin drive when he was called a king” (Shakespeare 56-57). Cassius’ father was a noble man and when someone tried to put himself as a king, the fathers of Cassius and Brutus ended up killing him. Cassius wanted to do the same ‘heroic’ deed as his father in killing Caesar. Because of the uprising led by Brutus’ father, Cassius and Brutus conspire to do the same thing.
Likenesses between Love through comradery and truning the way that they fight into a lifestyle. Both are profound organizations, and warriors with timeless sacrifice to back up their incredible reputation. There are some extreme differences between the two. But still on the opposite spectrum there is much in common with these powers. For a Spartan and a Marine, defending and fighting for those they Love was never really a choice for them, it's what they were born to
Pelos’s sons fought because they both wished to rule to the city of Mycenae. Only one who could get the Golden Fleece (soft fabric) from the ram would be selected to rule the city. Atreus wins the challenge and is handed over the Golden Fleece from the goddess Artemis. But, the Golden Fleece was secretly given to Thyestes by Atreus’s wife who is Thyestes’s lover. Later Arteus kills his wife Aerope and fights with this brother and wins the city.
He killed his wife's suitors and finally got to see his son, Telemachu, that he left when he was just a baby to go fight in the Trojan War. He killed and fought his way through the wrath of Poseidon to get home to the ones he loved and that is why he is an epic hero. As you can see he has plenty accomplishments there are more and better than
To save Percy, Beckendorf sacrifices his own life while Percy dives overboard. When Percy wakes again, he is in his dad’s palace resting with his half-brother Tyson, a Cyclops. The palace is under war with the old seat Titan, Oceanus. Percy pleads his father to let him help, but Poseidon sends his son back to Camp Half-Blood. At Camp Half-Blood, Chiron allows Percy to hear his “Great Prophecy.” Afterwards, he informs the Camp of a spy for Kronos, but they put that aside as they have much bigger problems such as the impeding war against the Titans.
If he keeps fighting he would die and be famous and almost and be known as a great warrior. While Achilles is deciding what to do Zeus sent Patroclus, Achilles best friend, back into battle and he died at the by Hector. Achilles is mad. He went back to fight very angry. Achilles did not go for his glory this time.
In fact, some of the monsters in the story knew he was an epic hero, such as Circe in Book 10 (Line 56) “ ‘ What champion, of what country, can you be?’”, Odysseus finally justify himself to Poseidon, who finally let him return to home. As soon as he got home, he needed to conquer one last challenge. In order to see his wife, Penelope again, he had to kill the army of suitors that were waiting at his front door for Penelope’s hand in marriage. He killed each and every single one of the men. For this reason, Odysseus have had proven himself to be an epic
He returns to fight Scar and the Hyenas with his friends Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa. From this an intense battle happens between Scar and Simba. Simba overcomes Scar and becomes the leader of Pride Rock and restores it back to dominance. Sundiata follows almost the same story line as this. When Sundiata's father dies he is supposed to be the next king, but Dankaran does not allow this to happen.