Literature Class of 2014
Thursday, September 26, 2013
A True Friend
In the epic The Iliad a Greek warrior by the name of Achilles is out to seek revenge on a Trojan warrior named Hector, who killed his best friend and wears his armor. Achilles does what a true friend should do, when Hector wears the armor of Achilles friend that shows great disrespect. As the chase continues even the gods turn to help Achilles seek revenge. Suddenly Hector has no where to go and knows his time has come, and he choses to stand and fight, but Achilles will-power is to extreme for Hector. In Hectors last words he is pleading and begging for mercy, but Achilles takes it to the extreme of dragging him around the walls of Troy by a chariot . I think that standing up for your friends is ways a good thing, but maybe he took it a little to far , but ways of life change as well as punishment do too.
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I agree with you, Nathan. Hector should not have wore Patroclus's armor. I believe Achilles did the right thing by going after Hector; however, I do not think he should have drug him behind the chariot. I think Achilles showed that bad things happen to bad people when he sought revenge on Hector.
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