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Anonymous Mon Aug 23 13:40:47 2010 No.1067386 [Reply] [Original]

I need help choosing a character from The Iliad to write about for an English essay and I was wondering if I could get some help!

The eighteenth-century British novelist Laurence Sterne wrote, "No body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man's mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time." Choose a character from The Iliad whose mind is being pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences. Then, in a well-organized essay, identify each of the two conflicting fores and explain how this conflict within one character illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 23 13:44:47 2010 No.1067396 FUCK YOU, YOU DISGUSTING FUCKING UNDERAGE B& PIECE OF SHIT FUCKING HOMEWORKFAG DIE IN A GODDAMN FUCKING FIRE FUCK YOU

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 23 13:53:47 2010 No.1067411 watch troy

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 23 14:07:47 2010 No.1067441 Don't watch Troy, it has very little to do with the book. Just do Zeus in relation to Sarpedon, his son.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 23 14:13:47 2010 No.1067453 Homer? More like HOMO, am i right

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bookworm !!3hNE7/sJnkX Mon Aug 23 14:16:47 2010 No.1067458
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You could do Paris. He realises that his actions have brought the city he loves to ruin, but he still can't quite let go of Helen. Moreover, you could talk about the divine influence which keeps him in this struggle (e.g. Aphrodite pulling him out of battle when he's wounded).

That kind of sums up the Iliad, insofar as there's an internal conflict for a very human reason, yet we all know there's only one direction events can really go in, and that's left to the Gods. To back that up, you might want to use the early books of the Aeneid, where Aeneas is shown all of Troy's true fate - it's not being burnt by Greeks, but destroyed by the hands of the Immortals.

Ignore the fags who aren't up to the challenge of helping you. All you have to do is promise you'd do something in return for a /lit/ brother if you get the chance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 23 14:18:47 2010 No.1067463 >>1067458 Promised

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 23 14:18:47 2010 No.1067464 lol, so is this /lit/? kbythxs

>>	bookworm !!3hNE7/sJnkX Mon Aug 23 14:22:47 2010 No.1067468 >>1067463 Good. Now write that essay, and savour it. Greek epics are the shiz.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 23 14:26:47 2010 No.1067473 Ares - wanted to return to the war as his son, Ascalaphus, was killed in battle, but was urged by Athena to abstain (by order of Zeus)

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