Fate In The Achilles

Hector fights for his own kleos and for the glory of Troy, and leaves his family behind for it. His desire to leave his legacy behind is greater than his love for family. However, he realizes that there is more than one way to leave a legacy behind. Despite leaving his family behind, he hopes that his son will supplant him praying to Zeus “Zeus, all you immortals! Grant this boy, my son, may be like me, first in glory among the Trojans, strong and brave like me, and rule all Troy in

Hector feels as though it is his job to kill Achilles and to protect his

Hector on the other hand, is a more sympathetic hero than Achilles. Hector is the leader of the Trojan forces in this epic poem. He is driven by the idea of protecting his home and his family; he is driven by a sense of responsibility. While Achilles is stuck on the idea of having his ego hurt, Hector is focusing on more important things, demonstrating his selflessness. When Hector, comes to see his son after battle, the child screams with horror at the sight of the armor. Hector understands his child in an instant and takes off his helmet, with its giant horsehair plume, then bends over, picks his boy up and embraces him, while Andromache looks on happily. Hector goes on to say…

    Fate seems to defy humanity at every turn.  A man may have his life planned out to the last second, but then some random force intervenes and he dies the second after he has completed his life plan.  Some believe in fate, believing that our lives are predetermined from the moment we are born.  Other people believe that everything is random, the result of some god rolling the dice in a universal poker game.  Still other people believe that each and every person is in total control of his or her destiny, every step of the way.  Who is to say which viewpoint is false?  Every culture has a unique perception of the role of fate in our lives, and no group has the "right answer," simply a

The battle with Achilles eventually causes Hector’s death, and this causes a massive amount of suffering. Many people suffer because Hector dies but, his father, his mother, his wife, his child and Helen suffer the most. His parents suffer when Hector’s body is dragged by Achilles’s chariot, “Watching this from the wall, Hector’s

Achilles and Hector are similar in a few ways but are different in many more. Both men are renowned warriors and some of the best fighters for their sides. And unfortunately, both men are fated to die. Both men are human, although only barely in Achilles’s case, who can only be wounded if hit in a small spot on his heel. But despite these few similarities, Achilles and Hector are more different than they are alike. Achilles let’s himself be ruled by his emotions while Hector has a more steady and calm temperament. Hector has a wife and a son and is capable of showing love towards others, Achilles on the other hand only speaks to his mother when he needs something: revenge, or armor.

His actions are merely an echo of what the gods encourage him to do. Apollo persuades Aeneas to go up against Achilles, even going as far as to tell him to “invoke the deathless gods yourself (20.124).” He is also saved from death

The transformation of Achilles comes when his best friend Patroclus is killed by the best Trojan warrior Hector on the battle field. When Achilles is brought word of his best friends? death he begins to weep aga in and his hatred turn from Agamemnon to Hector. Once again his mother hears his cries and comes to his rescue. After this internal defeat, Achilles returns to the battle field in search of ?Man Slaying? Hector. Hector was circling the walls of Troy when the goddess Athena appears to him being an ally named Deiphobus and convinces him that together they defeat Achilles. Fueled with this ?fire?, Hector then turns to Achilles. Achilles feels that this is his moment to be happy. This is his moment to avenge the man who killed his friend. They both throw their spears and they both miss. Hector then turns to Deiphobus to ask for a lance and he is gone, and at this moment Hector knows that the gods have deceived him but this has

Although many characters and relationships throughout the Iliad tend to come across as inhuman or unrealistic, Hector’s relationship with his family portrays a rare sense of humanity from a Trojan perspective during the war. Over the course of the first 9 or so books in the Iliad, the Trojan people and its soldiers are characterized predominantly as the enemy, granted that the story is told by a greek poet. From the start, this has the immediate effect of making the Trojans seem rather barbaric or even bestial, and ultimately prevents them from being viewed as humane. When Hector visits his family during the war however, the opposite becomes true of him. His relationship with his family within the safety of the city walls embodies humanity

Achilles out of rage kills Hector to avenge his friends death, however he did not stop there. Achilles didn’t just kill Hector and walk away, instead he mutilated the body and bragged throughout the streets. This may come across as a celebration to Achilles, but to others like the King it comes across as disrespectful and hurtful. As a result of this Zeus “runs to mommy” and tells Thetis that she needs to control Achilles and get him to accept a ransom. When King Priam and Achilles talk, Achilles realizes that he took things too far and willingly accepts the ransom and allows for burial. Oddly enough this situation reminds me of a rule in football. The excessive celebration rule has been put in place to prevent players from essentially rubbing it in other peoples faces when they achieve an accomplishment. The rule doesn’t only prevent bad sportsmanship, but it also prevents fights and hurt feelings. I feel like this fits the situation well because Achilles bragged about his accomplishment so much that he hurt Apollo and the King’s feelings, which definitely earned him a

itles, not emotions, define the value of an individual in a society. In Ancient Greece, a man’s worth is measured more by his status in war than by reactions to humanity. Therefore, emotions are worthless to hero; only class and rank are of any importance. The main theme in Homer’s the Illiad is horrendous consequences of war; however, those consequences would not exist without emotions. Achilles encounters two leading components of war in the Illiad: rage and death. The aspect of rage is a term associated with a hero, while death is the fate of all humanity. Achilles’s dilemma with rage and death is especially difficult since he has the misfortune of being a demigod: an individual more powerful than a mortal, but less powerful than a god (Merriam-Webster, 2011). The anatomy of Achilles can be divided into two sections.

Achilles is showing revenge. Heroism can sometimes be related to revenge, because it leads to the expression of more defined heroic qualities in people. We often see them more defined, because this drive leads to more strength and wisdom. We see all of the mercy and humanity leaves the soul. This latest stage of Achilles' resentment devours the hero in a paroxysm of self-destructiveness. His fiery fury plummets him to the depths of brutality, as he begins to view the enemy as the ultimate Other, to be hated with such an intensity that Achilles can even bring himself to express that most ghastly of desires, to eat the flesh of Hector, the man he is about to kill.Achilles doesn’t just want to kill Hector, but he also wants to humiliate his body

Have you ever wanted to take a look into the life of the gods and goddesses? Meet Achilles, demigod, son of a mortal king and a goddess. The king of Myrmidons, and the mightiest of the Greek warriors. Achilles and Hector have been at war with each other for years. Hector, terrible Hector, murdered Achilles closest friend. This couldn’t be brushed off, revenge must be had. Achilles sought to avenge the wrongful death of his dear friend. Hector didn’t know what he was in for, until it was too late.

Instead, his values are deeply rooted in honor and glory. Hector is a man “possessed by courage” and ultimately this courage is what is going to kill him in the end. This being said, Hector still cares about his family, but his worry stems off of their lifestyles after he passes away, not in the current state they are living in. He worries in the future of who will be their “protector” and how they will be taken care of, since he knows that he will ultimately die in battle. Hector sees his fellow Trojans and those in his militia as family. He values his death with them as more important than staying close with his family and helping them survive. Looking at it from afar, you can distinctly see that Hector values his courage and fate on the battlefield over his wife and child. This courage is not special to Hector. Many men of this time seem to follow suit with the lifestyle that Hector is

In the Greek myth of the Trojan War, Hector had to say goodbye to his family, knowing that he may never be able to see them again. His wife, Andromache, begged him to stay, as they had just had a new baby boy, Ajax. At the sight of Hector, Ajax bursted into tears in fear as he was wearing a helmet, and he didn’t recognize him right away. As soon as he took off his helmet, he clung to Hector acting as if he had never been apart from him. Hector knew what he had to do, so he walked away with tears in his eyes. Sadly there wasn’t a happy ending, Hector died in the war, and his wife was later separated from their son, as he was brutally killed.