The Corruption Of The World

In, “This was just, and the Trojans would have agreed if Athena, at Hera's prompting, had not interfered. Hera was determined that the war should not end until Troy was ruined. Athena, sweeping down to the battlefield, persuaded the foolish heart of Pandarus, a Trojan, to break the truce and shoot an arrow at Menelaus,” Mythology page 192, it is perspicuous that these two goddesses are meddling in the affairs of mortals. They want Troy demolished, Paris dead, and Aphrodite defeated, and the way the go about this is through humans. Athena coaxes Pandarus to loose his arrow at the Spartan king, knowing the Greeks will be peeved at this and resume the battle. During the onslaught, Olympians are wounded alongside men. Aphrodite is hurt by Diomedes, brave because of Hera, and the Greek’s spear, guided by Athena, also strikes Ares. Such actions prompted by these two goddesses are clear evidence that the Olympians are involved in the Trojan War. In addition, the consequences of the behavior of Eris show this particular type of violence. Sly and sneaky, the goddess of discord was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and was naturally angered by this. She flung an apple, marked For The Fairest, into the party. The events that occurred afterward would become legendary. Olympus became divided over Troy,

The movie The Trojan Women (1971) is a successful and compelling contemporary adaption of the tragedy The Trojan Women, written by Euripides. Overall, the film follows the whole plot very well and depicts the main characters of Euripides’ work expressly, especially characters like Cassandra, Andromache, and Helen. Although the director of the film has made a few slight alterations, audience can feel Trojan women’s grief and pain and comprehend the plot with no trouble.

The Iliad by Homer and the Women of Troy by Euripides are both Greek works of literature that look at the Trojan War from different perspectives. Book 6 of the Iliad illustrates that the ultimate glory is to fight for the city with no regard to the impact on the family. The Women of Troy focuses on the negatives that war causes, especially towards the soldier’s wives and children. Whereas the Iliad focuses on the battle itself and centers on the warriors, the Women of Troy focuses on the wrath the war brings upon the families left behind. The central theme in both the works is the Trojan War and they both offer perspectives of the duty of a person, the role of predetermined fate, and the role of women.

In the early ages of Greek mythology the Trojan War was battled between the Greeks, and the guardians of the city of Troy in Anatolia, around some time in the late Bronze Age. The Trojan War began as a way for Zeus to consider reducing the enlarging population of humanity, and a way to reclaim Helen, also known as the wife of Menelaos. Helen was captured by Paris, and taken as his prize for choosing Aphrodite as the most astonishing goddess in a competition between Athena and Hera. Menelaos and the Greeks came to an agreement to get Helen back, and attack the Trojans.

At the beginning of the story, the gods are debating what to do with the Greeks after they pillaged Troy, but more specifically, violated Athena’s shrine. Athena asks for help and says to Poseidon, “I want to help the Trojans who were my enemies, and make the Greek army’s homecoming a bitter one.” (Euripides 63). To which Poseidon replies, “You’re so fickle. Your mind leaps here and there: now you hate, and now you love, and both in excess.” (Euripides 65). Even Poseidon admits to the “fickleness” of the goddess since her allies during the war were the Greeks. This lends itself to show that Helen could be telling the truth about the goddesses having an argument about the beauty of each other and Aphrodite forcing Helen to run away with Paris. Helen also helps her argument by pointing out that the fight was preordained by the gods based on the prophecy about Paris, and then blames Paris’s mother and father for letting Paris live, rather than slaying Paris and trying to stop the prophecy from coming true. Through the many effective arguments, Helen shows that she did not ask to be carried away by Paris and that she liked Menelaus. Menelaus seems very weak compared to Helen, especially since he seems to not be able to make up his mind whether to kill her or not. In the end, Menelaus seems to decide on letting her live, though he still tells

Upton Sinclair’s book the Jungle  was about a Latvian family who decided to immigrate to America. They believed that America was a place to go and build wealth and thrive. When they arrive, they quickly realize that the great America is not all it’s described to be. The men in power are corrupt, the living conditions are deplorable, the area is overpopulated and there weren’t enough jobs for everyone. The jobs that were available were hard, and the factories were filthy. People often became ill and did not have enough money for doctors because they were underpaid. Sinclair wrote this book to open the eyes of the American public, and to finally incite change for the poverty stricken immigrants.

Troy lies in ruins after Greek armies win the Trojan War and ransack the city. The Trojan Women is not to a great extent a tragic account; however a depiction of a tragic situation of the horrors of war and its aftermath, whereby Euripides dramatizes the hardships of war and to some extent is an ironical illustration of hope. Euripides often uses unconventional views of Greek society, particularly the life of women and slaves; in the “The Trojan Women” we establish that the slave women encompass a nobility state of mind that stands in unusual contrast to the inhumanity of the victorious Greek warriors. The terrors of war have hardly changed within thousands of years. We can say the same about war now, Euripides was trying to say with his play

Furthermore, throughout the play, words in different languages such as “la guerra” are used by the chorus of the Trojan women, which could represent the applicability of the grief and suffering that occurs after the Trojan War, to all wars on a global and timeless level. In The Trojan Women, Euripides emphasizes Homer’s underlying criticism of war, present in The Iliad, and the play highlights the senselessness and absurdity of war. For example, Hecuba and the chorus of women speak about how pointless it was that the Greeks fought in Troy for ten years, just because of Helen, while their children grew up without fathers. The absurd brutality of the war is highlighted when the Greek soldier (presumably Achilleus’ son) throws Astyanax down the walls of Troy and afterwards brings the dead baby, drenched in blood, back to the women of Troy, as

Hera offered him a kingship, Aphrodite offered marriage to Helen, and Athena offered him victory in war. Helen was the most beautiful women, so he chose Aphrodite. Helen was married to the king of Sparta. Paris and Aphrodite went to Sparta, and kidnapped her. This kidnapping started the Trojan War because the king wanted Helen back, so he declared war on Troy. Hera and Athena were on the side with the Greeks, and Aphrodite on the Trojans. Ares was Athena’s half-brother. They were war gods, but Ares was more violent while Athena involved skills over violence. They were enemies because they both fought during the Trojan War, Athena with the Greeks, and Ares with the Trojans. While in battle, Athena wounded him. Ares ran back to Zeus, and he healed him. Since that day forward, Ares and Athena have been enemies, and helped opposing sides in the Trojan war. Athena gave the idea of building the Trojan horse to Odyssey. It was a huge wooden horse that could secretly hold soldiers inside of it. The gift was from Athena, and the Greeks left it outside of Troy, and they pretended to sail home. At night, the Greeks slipped out of the horse, and attack Troy. From this attack, the Greeks were able to win the Trojan War. Athena was able to help the Greeks

In essence a tale of warfare, Homer’s Iliad presents the Trojan War as a traditionally male-focused conflict. However, embedded in the story is the inescapably female-centered core of the battle. While not fully explored in the frame of the epic narrative, the cause of the war is wholly feminine with its origins in the jealously and the rivalry of the goddesses. Primarily, Thetis and Hera are the most influential during the ongoing action that directly or indirectly controls the flow of the war, empowering each to weave and construct the events that unfold in the epic. The behaviors these characters’ exhibit throughout the war is where their differences come to the forefront.

The Trojan War was a long grueling battle between the Achaeans (Greeks) and the city of Troy. It is believed the whole war began because the young prince of Troy, Paris, stole the King of Sparta’s wife Helen, as a prize for picking Aphrodite in the most beautiful goddess competition. After hearing the news Menelaus, convinced his brother, Agamemnon and other Greek heroes to retrieve his wife from Troy. After the first couple of failed attempts to reach Troy due to disfavor from gods, Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter to appease the curse. After these events, the Greeks finally set sail for Troy and set up one of the greatest wars in Greek Mythology.

“But now, Troy is no more. Nothing will ever rise from this mound again. Sacked. Gutted. A smoldering ruin” (Euripides 41). This description of Troy from Trojan Women by Euripides is perfectly embodied by Michael Cacoyannis in the 1971 film, The Trojan Women. With screams of terror, dust in the air, and chaos throughout the ruined streets of Troy, Cacoyannis paints a violently surreal portrait of the sorrowful Trojan women, ripped apart by the lengthy war. Although some artistic liberties were taken with the recreation of this ancient play, I believe Cacoyannis’ choices expand upon the legends of Helen and help to further illustrate the brutal tales of Troy. The overall plot is devout to Euripides original Trojan Women and contains practically

In order to refire the war, Athena appears disguised as a Trojan soldier, and shoots Menelaus. She means only to wound him, but only wants the Achaeans to go after the Trojans for trying to “kill” Menelaus. Were it not for this, the war probably would have simply ended, which is what Zeus wanted, as it was his opinion that Menelaus won the duel, so the deal that Paris and Menelaus made should still stand and the war should end. However, Hera wanted to see the fall of Troy, so Hera sent Athena down to rekindle the

The Trojan Women by Euripides describes the aftermath of the Trojan War and follows the fates of Hecuba, Andromache, Kassandra and the other women of Troy after the Greeks destroyed the city. Following their surprise attack on Troy and victory of the war, the Greek army has returned to capture the women as slaves and servants for their masters back home. The Trojan Women emphasizes the reactions and feelings of all the women who have watched helplessly as their husbands and sons have lost their lives in battle. It portrays both the mental and emotional distress of the women as they say goodbye to the ruins that they once called home and await their new life where they must serve at the will of a Greek master. Although there are many themes in the play, the central one is the horror of war.

At this point in time the United States had corruption and disorder throughout many of its major cities. Uncontrolled, they influenced majority of crucial decisions and exploited the influx of immigration States had in this period. In 1904 it was said that one in three people were to the point of death from only starvation in cities alone. But with government involvement, many political machines were restricted and even halted to help not only the economy but the american people as well. The progressive movement aided the end of mass corruption and prompted the government to of political machines.