He is an arrogant person that only sees what is best for him and does not care for others. ... Although Agamemnon says he does not deserve this, he allows her to complete this long introduction to his post Troy life. That is a flaw, but it is not the one to doom him. ... By his decision, it is clearly visible that he is proud and wants nothing more than victory. ... With Agamemnon, death is what comes to play. ...
She, too, appeared in public proudly displaying the body of her victim. ... She despised her mother and wanted her to pay for the murder of her father, but maybe the gods will call it upon her to avenge her mother's death by murdering her brother. ... When Clytamnestra hears her son is alive and is coming after her, she requests the axe so she can kill him before he gets her, but when he approaches her when Clytamnestra tries to convince her son not to kill her; she nearly persuades him, but Pylades convinces Orestes that the oracle must be obeyed. ... As we have come to realize the d...
Once he is king, he gives a proud and proper burial to Eteocles, but puts out an order to everyone in Thebes that no one is to burry Polyneices because he was seen as a traitor. ... She also does not want his rotting corpse to offend Zues, the ruler of all the gods. So she set upon her journey praying she is not discovered while committing the act. ... He pleads with his father to spare the life of Antigone, but is not successful. ... Eurydice, at this point in the story, is shocked and sorrowed by the death of her second son. ...
"He would not fight the orders of Athena" because if he did, he would not gain what he wants (109). Although spiritually he respects the gods" decisions, Achilles displays a fault in his proud spirit through his decision to stay out of the war. ... When his mother Thetis reveals to him his two fates, "hold out and lay siege to Troy, [and] glory never dies [or] voyage back to the fatherland [and] glory dies," Achilles chooses death. He has a will so strong that he chooses death to gain the glory that he continually seeks. ... Through his patience, wit, and trickery Odysseus keeps from death and...
Clytemnestra is introduced in the play, following the death of her daughter, Iphigenia. ... Since she felt that her daughter's death was not justified, she was determined to avenge it. ... After the murder it seems like Clytemnestra was proud of what she had done and wasn't afraid to let the entire public know of her actions. ... It is her confidence and determination to avenge the death of Iphigenia, which leads to the tragic death of Agamemnon. ... Even her daughter had to accept her death silently. ...
Since both men were proud, they refused to step aside so the other could pass. ... It started with Oedipus promising that the person responsible for Laios death will be driven out of Thebes. ... Oedipus was in shock and could not accept this. ... The falling action begins with Iocaste's death because she could not handle the truth that she married her own son. ... On the other hand, Iocaste chooses death to end her problem. ...
Since both men were proud, they refused to step aside so the other could pass. ... It started with Oedipus promising that the person responsible for Laios death will be driven out of Thebes. ... Oedipus was in shock and could not accept this. ... The falling action begins with Iocaste's death because she could not handle the truth that she married her own son. ... On the other hand, Iocaste chooses death to end her problem. ...
Since both men were proud, they refused to step aside so the other could pass. ... It started with Oedipus promising that the person responsible for Laios death will be driven out of Thebes. ... Oedipus was in shock and could not accept this. ... The falling action begins with Iocaste's death because she could not handle the truth that she married her own son. ... On the other hand, Iocaste chooses death to end her problem. ...
Not until the death of his beloved companion, which he was an indirect cause of, does he decide to return to the battlefield. ... Achilles feels guilty about Patroklos" death and wants to avenge his friend's death more for personal reasons than anything else. Achilles feels that if he kills Hector, Patroklos" death will be justly avenged, and Achilles will not carry such a heavy weight on his chest feeling like he was the cause of his friend's death. ... The antagonistic relationship between Agamemnon and Achilles appears to be on a subconscious level because both men are very prou...
They were the first democratic society in a tumultuous world of kings and emperors, and they were proud of their ideology. ... Agamemnon is a great warrior, but not a great family man. ... The chorus predict his downfall: "The gods fail not to mark those who have killed many. ... It is not that he is a bad man; his motive is both self-less and selfish. ... Her reactions illustrate how easy it is to upset a nation's stability when its entire system of rule can be overthrown by the deaths of a king and his children. ...
He is there by himself because his strategy not to retreat the day earlier led to many Trojan deaths, and now he is embarrassed and thinks that fighting Achilles is the only way to prove himself. ... Priam uses death as his main threat. ... Even though these two have been together as friends for a very long time, Prometheus is too proud to stop criticizing Zeus and admit that he may have been wrong. ... The fact that his fight with Achilles will almost definitely end in death does not seem to bother him. ... Without these people, as the story shows, death and destruction are likely to take...
Not until the death of his beloved companion, which he was an indirect cause of, does he decide to return to the battlefield. ... Achilles feels guilty about Patroklos" death and wants to avenge his friend's death more for personal reasons than anything else. Achilles feels that if he kills Hector, Patroklos" death will be justly avenged, and Achilles will not carry such a heavy weight on his chest feeling like he was the cause of his friend's death. ... The antagonistic relationship between Agamemnon and Achilles appears to be on a subconscious level because both men are very prou...
Agamemnon is infuriated that Achilles, the great Greek warrior, does not bow to his power. ... This is not the first time Agamemnon has shown himself to be a haughty leader. ... He further accuses him of causing the deaths of thousands of Trojans. ... Through his actions and beliefs, Hector shows that he is a proud, dutiful, wise, and honorable man, once of the most noble in the entire poem. ... In truth, Achilles' real opponents are not Aeneas and Hector, but Ares and Apollo. ...
He proclaimed his name proudly as if he was a god, "I would not have you speak through messengers, and therefore I have come hear you-I, Oedipus who bear the famous name" (7-9) When Creon first appears in Oedipus the King, Creon is shown to be separate from the citizens of Thebes and not wanting any type of power but, when Oedipus life disintegrates, Creon takes to the throne immediately. ... Oedipus did not understand. ... Was he not able to solve Tiresias's riddles because his arrogance wouldn't allow him to, or did he recognize the answers immediately, his vanity not allowing him...
Thomas Gould states, "We are not "free," and we cannot blame anyone for anything: a man's character is made for him, not by him, and his every act is already determined before he is born" (52). ... (OR 1182-1186) The power of fate is further emphasized as Oedipus is able to escape his ordered death, and he begins his controlled life in a world where he can still kill his father and marry his mother. ... At a feast, a drunken man tells Oedipus that Polybus is not his real father. ... There are times when a feeling comes to the surface that even the gods cannot - or must not - influenc...
She is not a typical Greek woman because she posses a powerful role and has a dangerous reputation for cleverness. ... What she does she does consciously, deliberating at each step -- but not in the logical way we usually deliberate; rather, governed solely by her emotions at the moment. ... To the reader Medea sees as a proud character. ... She decides to kill her sons, not because she didn't love them, but because she hates Jason more than she loves them. At the end of the play it is no surprise that Jason dies a figurative death, un-graced by the murder of his family and c...
Rising action of the poem is Hector's assault on the Achaean ships; the return of Patroclus to combat; the death of Patroclus. ... Virgil died in 19 B.C., before he finished revising The Aeneid; it was published after his death. ... Aeneas wins, and, after considering sparing his enemy's life, he decides to kill Turnus to avenge Pallas's death. ... Also, when Turnus kills Pallas, Virgil foreshadows Turnus's own death. ... Their paths would be guided not by normal order, and not by the consequences of their actions, but by the directing of fate. ...
