Helen

HELEN:"CAUSA BELLE and VICTIM OF WAR". Homer creates Helen as a complex and suffering figure with a good mind, who strives for autonomy, expression, and belonging, within and despite the many constraints to which she is subject.Helen appears in only six encounters in the Iliad, with a different audience in each. As the encounters progress, she reveals more and more aspects of her personality and becomes increasingly assertive, increasingly her own person, and increasingly a part of the

absolutely nothing about Helen of Troy nor of Ancient Greece or its beliefs or values, I just always wanted to visit. What I learned is that I do not categorize her as a femme fatale. A femme for certain but I do not believe that she fits that fatale archetype. Per myth, her father was Zeus or Tyndareus, her mother was Leda or Nemesis. Her father, now King Tyndareus (not Zeus) had to create the Oath of Tyndareus due to the overwhelming number of suitors that wanted to marry Helen. Fast forward to Paris

Exam 2 Essay Helen, twenty-two year old of a wealthy family, is a group of people. The group is most likely lead by two men, Allen and Mark. They hold Helen captive for many weeks, abusing her, threatening her with bodily harm, and failing to provide necessary nutrition and sleep. Helen observes what she thought to have been Allen attempt to murder Mark, injuring him greatly, and is then forced to finish Mark off. If she failed to kill Mark, her life would have surely been taken sooner or later

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

A major tragedy that last more than 10 long years, took the lives of many and consumed an entire city. The focus of this paper will be proving the innocents of Helen. I will be presenting convincing evidence on to why Helen should not take the blame for the war against the Trojans. As I analyses the different dramatic settings I will use example from different text and source to help convey my argument clearer. The form of this paper will consist of quotes, example, and personal thought from three

lessons.The most beautiful woman in Troy was Helen. Helen hasn’t been seen by anyone today, but we still imagine what she looks like. Helen has a mystic power to attract men wherever she went. She had suitors follow her everywhere and harassed her. There where thousands of men out for her hand in marriage among these she picked Menelaus. When Menelaus was away she fled to Troy with Paris. Paris got killed for fleeing and she indirectly started the Trojan War. Helen married his brother Deiphobus who she

The story of Paris and Helen is captivating in that they both play different roles and accumulate different levels of blame in each different retelling of the story. In some, they are the destructive lovers, whose all-consuming desire obliterates Troy and costs many great Greek warriors their lives. In others, Helen is the victim of Aphrodite’s enchantment and Paris’s lust; and in some, Paris is portrayed as a generally weak man who tries to do the right thing, and often fails miserably at it. One

In the epic The Iliad, Helen is one of the main characters. Helen is brought into the epic when Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena are arguing over who is the best and most beautiful goddess. This fight comes up when they see the apple that says “to the fairest” on it and they all think they deserve the apple. When Zeus is asked who is the best, he cannot decide and doesn’t want to get involved in an argument, so Paris is asked to make the decision. All three of the ladies state their great qualities to

Kristin Russell Helen of Troy 28 April 2016 Art History 210 Research Paper “Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight,” these are the words of Marilyn French. One name that most people recognize from Greek history is Helen, better known as Helen of Troy . Well known— this woman was considered a beauty beyond

been around for many years. To some, like Edgar Allan Poe, Helen is a beauty beyond words, constantly praised. To others, like Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), she is a curse bestowed upon Greece. As thousands of years have passed since the Trojan War, through their uses of speech, diction, imagery, form, and tone, the two poets display their contrasting views of Helen in their poems “To Helen” and “Helen”. Edgar Allan Poe writes an ode “To Helen”. Starting from the title it is seen that he is talking directly