Waking up to dead men hanging above you after a great night of celebration, probably not a situation you want to be in. Grendel’s mother’s way of getting revenge for killing her son Grendel was this. Beowulf leaps up fuming, no one ever told him about a mother. Beowulf being the hero that he is agrees to kill the mother. Beowulf goes into battle on his own.
It would seem that in Odysseus’ absence, suitors have been courting his wife Penelope and occupying his home. The belief is that Odysseus is dead. Telemakhos, his son, wants the suitors gone, but he is helpless in the matter. Athena steps in by reshaping herself in the form of Odysseus’ close friend, Mentes, the ruler of the Taphians. She assures Telemakhos that his father is still alive and instructs him to go to Pylos and Sparta in search of news of his fate.
2. In your opinion, does Achilles’ loyalty to his friend Patroclus justify the way he treats Hector? Yes, Achilles’ loyalty to his friend Patroclus justifies the way he treats Hector because once he struck Hector through the neck, he asked him if he thought he could kill Patroclus and be safe. Right after that conversation they had Achilles tells Hector that the dogs and kites will rip his body, while Patroclus will lie in honor during his funeral. Achilles tells Hector he will have no bed of death, nor will he be laid out and mourned by her who gave him birth, basically showing his incredible hate for Hector doing this heinous crime to his best friend.
Penelope , in Greek mythology, wife of Odysseus and the mother of Telemachus. In Homer's Odyssey she is pictured as a chaste and faithful wife. When Odysseus was away, she was surrounded by suitors who tried to persuade her that he would never return. She agreed to choose another husband when she finished weaving her father-in-law's shroud, but this was never done, for she unraveled by night what she wove by day. At last her strategem was discovered, and the suitors were enraged.
As Guinevere and Lancelot departed from each other, she blamed herself for betraying her husband and did not want Lancelot to take the responsibility for both of their actions. Book tells that Arthur dies on the end of the novel fighting with Mordred, but in the movie it shows that the Lancelot dies and Arthur stays alive. As Arthur lay dying he orders that his sword, Excalibur, be thrown into the
Also, The Iliad ended with Hector’s funeral and the grief of the Trojans. Hector seems to put war aside when it comes to his family and devote his attention and love to his family. As for Achilles, his only family is his mother, Thetis, and his only close friend is Patroclus. Achilles only goes to his mother to whine about a situation not going well for him. Later on Hector killed his close friend Patroclus, and Achilles seeks revenge on Hector.
Shield of Achilles In the Iliad the shield of Achilles was used to fight Hector, the greatest fighter of Troy. Achilles had lost his armor to his closest companion, Patroclus, whom Hector killed in a battle. Patroclus was wearing Achilles armor so they were ripped to shreds. Achilles felt horrible for lending his armor to Patroclus so he decides to fight against Hector. Achilles’ mother asks the gods to provide replacement armor for her son.
Odysseus was widely known to the ancient Greeks for helping defeat Troy with his idea of the Trojan horse to get King Menelaus’ wife, Helen, back from Paris, the prince of Troy. It took Odysseus ten years to win the war and ten years to reach his homeland, Ithaca, and return to his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus. During these twenty years, Odysseus has chosen to make many bad decisions and choices yet he was blessed by the gods and helped by his mentor Athena and safely reached Ithaca but lost all his comrades and friends. Odysseus reached Ithaca to find his home occupied by ruthless, arrogant suitors! Aggravated, Odysseus carefully planned a trap with the help of two loyal men and killed all the suitors.
This action of Paris creates rivalry between the two cities and the Trojan War strikes in. Atreus’s sons have vowed that they will bring Helen back home and in order to win the war, Agamemnon sacrifices his own daughter to gods. Oresteia depicts number of sins
“I never loved you”… after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house just as if it were five years ago (Fitzgerald 125) Gatsby didn’t know when to move on. For the matter of fact, he didn’t want to move. In the end he didn’t get daisy because daisy left him for Gatsby. Gatsby obsession led to his tragedy when he took the blame for killing myrtle for the sake of daisy. His obsession killed him, and it’s a corruption the American