He didn’t want to lose his title as the best barber in town. The barber was a coward because if he had slaughtered Torres, then he would have saved the lives of many while only taking one. Torres was a man who killed a group of people called ‘rebels’ because of their beliefs of their culture. The barber would have only had to dispatch the Captain to set the lives of all the other rebels free. Take one look at another murderous fiend, Hitler.
Either Grendel would be killed or Beowulf would die. In Beowulf, before he goes off to get revenge for Hrothgar’s kinsman against Grendel’s mother, he declared that he would kill her and revenge In today’s society, there is no particular leader that we expect to provide us with shelter, food, and protection. It is more individualism rather than society as a whole. Today, we value our own life more than anything else. For example, on airplanes, the emergency instruction states to the passengers to get the masks on you before assisting anyone else.
Do you know the soldier’s draw?’ Michele’s father has got an idea that because they decide to kill Filippo and just need one man to do it and that will help others get in to the safe place. Michele’s mind was fight in his heart, family with friend, family with justice, family with compassion, and friend with friend. Anyway the fair and commiserate are the final way he does chose, because in his mind the justice and compassion’s value are more than family that because he has a hero that called Tiger Jack to show him how to do. Justice and compassion beat the family, and friend beat his family. That’s the
The feud between Agamemnon and Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors, was depicted at the beginning of both works and was very important in creating the epic hero. Since Achilles despised Agamemnon, he refused to fight the Trojans and join the war, which resulted in many deaths among the Greeks (Spark Notes: The Iliad). Achilles rage towards Agamemnon swifts towards the Trojans when Patroclus is killed by Hector; the mightiest Trojan warrior. In the poem, Patroclus is Achilles’ friend, but in the movie, he is Achilles’ cousin. Even though the bond between a family member is usually closer than a bond between a friend, the bond depicted through both works was notably the same; strong, close, and loving.
As readers can see, he had been regarded as hero once. He leaved Corinth in order to protect who he had believed to be his natural parents; he figured out the riddle and saved the Thebes; he ruled the country sincerely; when the country suffered from disease, he tried his best following the oracles given by Apollo’s shrine. However, because of these good deeds Oedipus have done, he gradually found out who he really was and finally realized the oracle given when he was born came true; the oracle mentioned that he would kill his natural father and married his natural mother. As a result of discovering all of the horrible prophecies have been fulfilled, Jocasta, Oedipus’s wife and his wife as well, hanged herself. Oedipus discovered Jocasta’s body, but already died.
They seek glory on the battlefield, to die a hero, to be honored in death by their people yet they were depicted as very different men who had come to a time in their lives where their ultimate reasons for the war were very different. Achilles was considered the warrior-champion of the Achaeans and came to live his life by violence, defending his people and defeating and or attacking his enemies. He was not a family man instead he is portrayed as a man fighting for his own self-satisfaction. When Agamemnon, also a warrior chieftain, shamed Achilles by claiming Briseis, Achilles war prize he is humiliated and his anger brews and he tells Agamemnon “Far better to head home with my curved ships than stay here, unhonored myself and piling up a fortune for you.” (111) and with that he leaves to back to Phthia. He had decided to kill Agamemnon but Athena came to him, sent by Hera, and told him to get his anger under control.
In book three, after Paris’ responds to Hector’s criticisms, Paris offers to prove himself in a fight with Menelaus in order to settle the war. Hector announces this offer to the Achaeans as he moves forward in the Trojan ranks, into no man’s land. In doing so, Hector leaves himself vulnerable and open to Achaean attack. However, Agamemnon orders a cease fire, protecting Hector. It is significant to note that this first glimpse into the character of Hector demonstrates that he would rather try to prevent a war than go into combat.
Sample Legal Brief Citation: Kreon vs. Antigone Facts: Kreon, uncle of Antigone, who is now the king of Thebes, the very moment he became the ruler he pronounced to follow Thebes’s death rule of burying his own nephews. He proclaimed and was honored to bury Eteokies because he wanted to fight for the city, but he forbids to have a burial ceremony for Polyneikes because Polyneikes was the one that wanted to destroy the city Thebes, and Kreon did not like the fact someone like him wanted to destroy his own city. Antigone in the other hand, is the very opposite of her uncle, she declares to bury her own brother. Antigone does not care what will happen to her. She is eager to break the rules of Thebes for her own brother.
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.
At some point in life humans will realize the reality of death, and they will want to find a way to escape it. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu dies leaving Gilgamesh shaken and scared. Gilgamesh says, "For Enkidu, I loved him dearly, together we endured all kinds of hardship on his account, for the common lot of man has taken him" (p98). He fears that he will have the same fate as Enkidu and die. He decides to embark on a journey to find Utnapishtim, who survived a terrible flood and is the only mortal to gain immortality.