Achilles and Aeneas is both half god warriors who knew they going to die in the war and have someone they care about get kill by their enemy; however, they both have different qualities that make them both different from each other. This essay will analyze how Achilles and Aeneas is unlike in the epic poem. It will explain how dissimilar their personality and the way how they handle thing during their stories. Achilles is the most powerful warrior of all the Greeks and the best fighter. Achilles is obsessed with his personal glory. He takes offense easily and reacts with anger when his pride is injured. When he prides is injured, he abandons his comrades and pray that the Trojans kill his comrades, all because of his leader of the Greek
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Aeneas is humble, honest, proud, but he is not arrogant. He is capacity of great love and sympathy and instead of abandoning his comrades in a time of need, he rallies them with a motivation speech. He is more willing to bow down to the pressures of the gods. As much Aeneas want to stay with Dido and live happily ever after with her, but he has to go found Rome as he duty for the Gods. Aeneas does what fate wants, not what he wants. He does show sympathy, kindness, and have second thought about killing a person; for example, Aeneas was not going to kill Turnus until he saw Pallas's belt on Turnus' shoulder and kill him. “Aeneas, ferocious in armor, stood there, still, shifting his gaze, and held his sword - arm back, holding himself back too as Turnus’ word began to sway him more and more… when all at once he caught sight of the fateful sword-belt of Pallas, swept over Turnus’ shoulder, gleaming with shining studs Aeneas knew by heart. Young Pallas, whom Turnus had overpowered taken down with a wound, and now his shoulder flaunted his enemy's battle- emblem like trophy. Aeneas, soon as his eyes drank in that plunder—keepsake of his own savage grief— flaring up in fury, terrible in his rage, he cries…” (Virgil 1072). In conclusion, Achilles and Aeneas may have some similar with each other but they is very different in their characteristics. They have different personalities and different ways how they
Aeneas is humble, honest, proud, but he is not arrogant. He is capacity of great love and sympathy and instead of abandoning his comrades in a time of need, he rallies them with a motivation speech. He is more willing to bow down to the pressures of the gods. As much Aeneas want to stay with Dido and live happily ever after with her, but he has to go found Rome as he duty for the Gods. Aeneas does what fate wants, not what he wants. He does show sympathy, kindness, and have second thought about killing a person; for example, Aeneas was not going to kill Turnus until he saw Pallas's belt on Turnus' shoulder and kill him. “Aeneas, ferocious in armor, stood there, still, shifting his gaze, and held his sword - arm back, holding himself back too as Turnus’ word began to sway him more and more… when all at once he caught sight of the fateful sword-belt of Pallas, swept over Turnus’ shoulder, gleaming with shining studs Aeneas knew by heart. Young Pallas, whom Turnus had overpowered taken down with a wound, and now his shoulder flaunted his enemy's battle- emblem like trophy. Aeneas, soon as his eyes drank in that plunder—keepsake of his own savage grief— flaring up in fury, terrible in his rage, he cries…” (Virgil 1072). In conclusion, Achilles and Aeneas may have some similar with each other but they is very different in their characteristics. They have different personalities and different ways how they