What Is Helen Script

Pearl Harbor lives on to be one of the most devastating attacks on US soil. Pearl Harbor was a major US naval base in the twentieth century, located in Hawaii. It was docked with some of the strongest and most important ships in the US Navy. On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. This attack was devastating to the US, as it killed thousands and sank multiple important military ships.

Also, Athena was there for Telemakhos on his journey, even though he didn’t know it. The second quote talks about how Penelope was trying her best to wait to see if her beloved husband would return home. So she told the suitors that when she was done with her weaving she would marry, but every night she would unravel what she weaved.

At which time, Helen, daughter of Zeus and wife of Menelaus, enters the room and gazes upon her husband 's visitors, her proclamation, directed to Telemachus, confirms Nestor 's beliefs:

Though the Greek hero overcomes many hardships in his twenty-year journey back, he shows no mercy to the young women who slept with the suitors. Heroes, who are expected to be the gleaming, godlike examples for humanity to aspire to, should not penalize miscreants with death. Instead, like Apollo required Hercules to perform twelve labors, Odysseus might punish the maids with difficult intellectual or physical tasks or actually forgive them of their ‘sins’. The ‘hero’ also spares no thought to the fact that the maids are forced into sexual relations with the suitors, rather than being willing participants in them. Time and again, Homer establishes the unruly behavior of the suitors, who “after [putting] aside desire for food and drink…set their minds on other pleasures,” making a sly reference to their harassment of the maids who carouse with them (82). Yet, Odysseus still refuses to acknowledge the result of coercion that clearly merits forgiveness. Furthermore, the maids are unmarried, but Odysseus sees their relationships as a breach of his own relationship with the maids, though he was not reluctant to have adulterous sex with Circe. Odysseus “[mounts] Circe’s gorgeous bed,” quickly, and without any visible qualms (241). While readers might argue that Odysseus needed to sleep with Circe in order to return home to Ithaca, his maids, and ever-faithful Penelope, Odysseus exhibits tells that show he in fact, wanted to stay in Aeaea amid his comrades, “feasting on sides of meat and drafts of heady wine” until a year “had run its course”

There are various accounts for why Helen left Sparta and to why Paris abducted Helen. Some attribute the abduction as a means to power and politics. According to Strauss, Anatolia was a place that offered women more political freedom (Strauss, 16). Freedom and power alone could have enticed Helen to leaving her husband and running off with Paris. Homer heavily

      Penelope and Helen are the real human women who can steal men's hearts with their own feminine ways and they never let their man go.  Helen stole the heart of Paris and later married Menelaus-the love that Paris had for Helen began the long Trojan War.  Even with her shaded past, Helen is able to live her life as a proper adjusted middle-class matron.  Penelope and Odysseus were only together for a few years before he was sent off to war and, while he was gone for over twenty years, his love for her lasted.  Penelope is the symbol of marital fidelity, of trust, honor  and devotion.

Paris then took her back to Troy. Menelaus heard and the ex-suitors of Helen made a deal with Agamemnon saying that If the princess of Grease won that Menelaus would get Helen back and Agamemnon would get Troy. Rumors have it that Odysseus the king of Ithaca, was sent on a journey to find you and persuade you to join the war between the princes of Greece and the Trojans. Odysseus was a great persuader , and with you thirst for adventure and glory, he talked you in the joining the fight and you sailed for Troy. You took 50 ships, each carrying 50 men of your best men from your private army, the Myrmidons. Is it true that Agamemnon and you had a falling out and you withdrew from the conflict? and that the quarrel started after you had taken two women in one of your raids? and that you gave one of the women to Agamemnon. But, the girl’s father offered a ransom for the girl’s safe return. and that Agamemnon refused because the girl was a priestess of Apollo, and that the god was unhappy with this decision and sent a plague to wreak amongst the Greek camp. and that Agamemnon eventually gave back the girl, and to mourn the loss, he took your woman from you? and without you, the Greeks were fearful of loss and the Trojans gained confidence of winning from your absence, even reaching close to the walls of the Greek camp in their attacks and managing to set a few Greek ships on fire. what was your thoughts when your great friend Patroclus begged you to re-enter the war or at least allow him to lead out the Myrmidons in battle? and when you agreed was it hard to give him your armour made of gold, silver, and enamel, and the graves were of shining tin and army? and why did you make him promise only to engage in defensive action and not pursue the Trojans back to Troy? To my understanding you killed Troilus and were very smitten with Priam's daughter Polyxena. Priam decided

Helen of Sparta’s portrayals in many different accounts of mythology and history are extremely dissimilar. Helen was said to be the daughter of Zeus and Leda (Queen of Sparta), and was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Helen was abducted by Paris of Troy and when Menelaus came to retrieve Helen, the Trojan war began. In “The Odyssey”, Helen is shown as living happily with Menelaus after he brought her back from Sparta. She is portrayed as an intelligent person who sees things for what they truly are, but is mostly reserved to wifely duties. In “Trojan Women” by Euripides, Helen is shown as a person who was used by the gods as a reward for Paris with nothing else in mind. However, she fights vehemently for her own innocence in the

I pursue the idea that while Penelope faces oppression at the hands of her son, her suitors, and her social obligation to remarry, she remains free and powerful. Both her freedom and power are manifest in her cunning and deliberate ways. I argue that this is the manifestation of a femininity characteristic to her, and to the tradition of misogyny. Her deliberation marks her presence/power/femininity not despite her veil but because of it. When she tricks her suitors by unraveling Laertes' shroud after each day at her loom, when she tests Odysseus with questions about their bed, when she announces the contest of the bow, when she refuses to recognize Telemachus' impending adulthood, she shows, in veiled ways, her deliberate nature, her presence/power/femininity.

Helen first insults Paris for being a coward and not fighting Menelaus,, as he ran from battle, following up with a plea for Paris to go back and fight Menelaus. However, Helen has a sudden change of heart and asks Paris to stay because she realizes that no matter how much she doesn’t like Paris, her sexual affairs with him is all she has. Like all the male characters in the Iliad, Paris completely disregards her self interests and instead takes her to bed; he only thinks of his desire to be with her and takes her to bed without hesitation. Despite her scorn for Paris, she soon realizes that without him, she would be stranded between two opposing forces, so she decides to keep whatever she has and please Paris and keep him as

The Iliad, an epic poem written by Homer, concerns a deadly war between Greek and Trojan mortals and immortals. Throughout the battle, the characters try to impose their will onto the war by expressing their own agency. Agency is a character’s ability to act on their own free will without any emotional or physical constraints stopping them. However, the characters do not always have the luxury of doing whatever they please. There are many factors that come into play that does not allow the them to act freely. In Book Three, we can see Helen, the prize of the Trojan war, having trouble expressing her own will. Helen challenges Aphrodite’s command when she tries to convince Helen to join Paris in his bedroom and Helen shames Paris when they finally meet. In this particular scene, lines 3.428 to 3.524, Helen is able to assert herself through speaking, but she still has no capability to act and must follow the orders of Aphrodite and Paris. Helen’s verbal resistance against Aphrodite and Paris shows how the social hierarchy set within the Iliad limit mortal women from being able to act on their own accord.

I didn’t expect my day to end like this. I am Antinous, leader of the Suitors. Today I broke into Penelope’s house. I see a strange man standing there. He looked very old. Telemachus told me to greet him as well as offer him food. I greeted him in such an unmannerly way. He started speaking with me, I got slowly annoyed. I spotted a stool, directly aiming at his right shoulder hitting him perfectly! I nearly broke it. “DAMN YOU!” He shouted. Penelope happened to be in the room, standing in the corner, seeing everything. “DO YOU TREAT GOD LIKE THAT?!” She bawled at me. My green eyes are filled with anger. “My apologies my queen.” I said. “You show no excellence here in Ithaca.” She cried out.

Helen and Aphrodite fight about Paris, how Helen feels disgraced and shamed to be seen around him. She claims the women would scorn her for sleeping with someone as pathetic as Paris, as he does not stand and fight and he is seen as the lesser prince if considered a prince at all. Aphrodite, who cherishes and favors Paris, claims he is honorable and manly, but only because he chose her as the most beautiful. Nonetheless, when it came down to it, Aphrodite would not leave Olympia to be with Paris either, he was simply not worth it. Through the rest of The Iliad, many characters point out how selfish and unmanly/unhonorable Paris is, and how he should be more like Hector and stand and fight.

Before I start the chronological analysis of Helen by Gorgias .I will give a brief statement of what the text is about. Gorgias text is about a beautiful women by the name of Helen. Helen was the daughter of Leda queen of Sparta and Zeus. She was married to Agamemnon, but ran away with the young prince of troy Paris, Starting a war between Greece and Troy that lasts ten years. After the war Helen returns to her husband and many issues and questions arises as to Helen being the soul blame for the war. In Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen, Gorgias tries to defend Helen and refute the blame and shame from Helen of Troy. By setting us up with four reasons as to why Helen would of rain away with the young prince of troy Alexander. With this four point

Paris, once a noble prince, now humbly herds his sheeps uptop Mount Ida due to his father sending him away as a result of an oracle. This oracle foretold that he would be the ruin of his homeland. Paris recalled little from his short time in the kingdom but always dreamed of what his life would be like and remembers why he was sent away and the details of his fate. While Paris lived on Mount Ida, his actions illustrated how intelligent and honest he was. His characteristics resulted in Zeus believing he would be an excellent judge for the dispute between the goddesses