<br> It all began when Agamemnon stole away Briseis, Achilles’ woman. To ease the <br>anger Achilles had for Agamemnon, Thetis asked Zeus to provide honor for her son, <br>Achilles. Zeus granted her request by promising that the Achaeans would suffer enough <br>losses to force Agamemnon to come begging for Achilles’ help. <br> The first major change in Achilles was caused by his rage toward Agamemnon. <br>Achilles, the great warrior, allowed his wrath to infest his desire to help his own comrades <br>in the battle against the Trojans.
Achilles's rage: Portrayed Through Painting and Story The Iliad by Homer depicts a story of Achilles, an enraged Demigod who is pronounced the greatest warrior of all time and a hero to many. A vase painting depicts the savagery and brutality of Achilles's rage and springs from a story in the Iliad when King Priam's eldest son Hector mistakenly killed Patroclus. Achilles's brother in arms and dear friend Patroclus had foolishly worn Achilles's armor and led his Mymidon army into battle. Hector, thinking Patroclus was Achilles, killed Patroclus only to soon discover that he made a grave mistake that would cost him dearly. The vase painting depicts the charged scene from the Illiad in the moments after an enraged Achilles sought revenge and killed Hector.
He had decided to kill Agamemnon but Athena came to him, sent by Hera, and told him to get his anger under control. With that he left in anger and stayed by his ships drowning in sorrow. Here was the fearsome warrior brought to his knees by the loss of a woman, a prize, a piece of property, taken from him by another. He did not fight in the war for a time due to his anger and humiliation but when his best friend Patroclus was slain by Hector he was driven by revenge and rejoined the fight. Hector was considered the warrior-champion for the Trojans, who had persuaded the Trojan warriors to leave Troy and the safety it provided while Achilles was not taking part in the battle.
On the hand, there lies Claudius. The reader has just learned that he was willing to kill his own brother to become king. Murder is a horrible thing, but killing your own brother for your own selfish needs is far beyond horrible. When learning this, in combination with feel bad for Hamlet, the reader is left hating Claudius for what he has done. Additionally, this is a very important scene in the play.
It is here that Achilles ends his withdrawal from battle, and it is the shield and armor forged for him by the smith-god Hephaestus that enables him to seek revenge against Hector for the slaying of his dearest friend and comrade Patroclus. Awash in the agony of his grief, Achilles determines to ignore the warnings of his goddess mother Thetis that his own death will follow quickly on the heels of his revenge. Once the mortal Achilles is newly armed in the armor fashioned for him by the immortal Hephaestus, the events that will ultimately lead to the destruction of Troy and the defeat of her protector Hector are set in motion. Since Hephaestus cannot “hide him away from death and its sorrow,”3 he agrees to make Achilles a set of armor so fine “that any man in the world of men will marvel at through all the years to come – whoever sees its splendor.”4 However, the imagery that Hephaestus selects to place on Achilles’ shield is not that which the audience would have 1 Simone Weil, "The Iliad, Poem of Might," in The Simone Weil Reader, ed. George A. Panichas (New York: David McKay Company, 1977).
Revenge must begin with a motive. In the play Hamlet, Fortinbras and Hamlet both seek revenge for the death of their fathers. Hamlet desires revenge because he is ordered to do so. Also he develops a hated for the new marriage of his mother and Claudius. Old Hamlet informs his son that he was murdered by his brother.
His aggression leads to his own “untimely death”. In Act 3 Scene 1, “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries/ That thou hast done me. Therefore, turn and draw.” Tybalt would not accept Romeo’s peace and decides to challenge him to a duel, only to mortally wound Mercutio. His actions spur Romeo into impetuous thinking which saw him kill Tybalt in an act of revenge. Tybalt, indeed, had a serious impact on the lives of Romeo and Juliet, by killing Mercutio.
In Agamemnon, Aeschylus uses his characters to express his political opinion on war. In lines 49-54 Agamemnon and Menelaus’s war cry, at the outset of the Trojan War, is compared to that of eagles stricken with agony after they lose their young and their homes. Aeschylus’s statement is one of doom and destruction on many levels. Troy is destroyed, many Greeks die, and the House of Atreus is destroyed. On line 437, the chorus is speaking and they say that the god of war was the “money changer” of dead bodies.
Through Hagen’s actions of sinking Kriemhild’s treasure in the Rhine River and attempting to kill the monk to void the Nixes prophecy are both examples of Hagen’s desperation after killing Siegfried. The scene where Hagen kills prince Siegfried is a very controversial one. In the end, he stabs Siegfried in his weak spot that Kriemhild unknowing marked with a cross. After Hagan committed his crime, he realized that he would be dead if Kriemhild used her monetary strength to build an army of her own to revenge her husband’s death by killing Hagen. To stop her from retaliating, he later discards her treasure in the Rhine River so it could not be used to build an army against him.
Aeneas's not-so-nice side reveals itself again in Book 10 and Book 12, when he kills various guys (including, finally, Turnus), who are surrendering and begging him for mercy. OK, so you were really angry that Turnus killed Pallas, but still, don't you remember your father telling you to "spare the conquered"? Is that really the example you want to be setting for your son Ascanius and the countless generations of Romans who will come after him? That was the non-technical sense in which Aeneas is a tool. Interestingly enough, the technical sense makes the non-technical sense seem not as bad.