Book 2: The Fall of Troy
- Created by: Amelia Louise Harris
- Created on: 08-03-16 20:00
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- The Fall of Troy
- Aeneas' character.
- "death was the only thing I could hope for" (at his house)
- "ready to follow me" the people have faith in him.
- "I shall not leave your side till I see you safety standing on the threshold of your fathers door "
- "my mind recoiled in anguish when you asked"
- "mindlessly I put on my armour [...] Frenzy and anger drove me on and suddenly it seemed a noble thing to die in arms"
- he forgets his family, he knows nothing but furor, the gods are what make him great nit his own actions.
- while he becomes the leader of the Trojans he fights with he gives them no hope "let us die" he tells them. adding "madness to their courage"
- he wants to kill Helen, he allows Furor to take over him.
- "I shall take pleasure in feeding the flames of vengeance"
- he didn't realise his wife was gone. he worried only about his father and son
- "I shall take pleasure in feeding the flames of vengeance"
- "I yielded "
- "he is a reluctant leader, he doesn't want to be responsible for these people.
- Laocoon and the prisoner.
- "he went on with his lies, cringing with fear as he spoke"
- "the day of the abomination was soon upon us" - Sinon
- "listen now to this story of Greek treachery and, from this indictment, learn the ways of a whole people"
- Sinon means snake.
- "i am afraid of Greeks, even when they bare gifts" Laocoon
- "two serpents [...] coil upon unmeasurable coil [...] they seized his two sons [...] feeding on their helpless limbs.
- "like the bellowing of a wounded bull shaking the ineffectual axe out of its neck as it flees from the alter"
- The ghost of Creausa.
- "I was paralysed. my hair stood on end. my stuck in my throat"
- he is afraid for the first time, maybe beaus he has confronted what he has already lost
- her last words are "do not fail in your love for our son"
- emphasises the family theme. she dies, the importance is on the makles and continuation of the line
- emphasises the family theme. she dies, the importance is on the makles and continuation of the line
- Aeneas does love her as he goes back for her but he is told there will be another wife.
- Creausa is already gone, she was not important to Rome
- she refers to herself I the third person ad in past tense
- "I was paralysed. my hair stood on end. my stuck in my throat"
- The family and Fire baby
- "flames seemed to lick his soft hair and feed round his forehead without hurting him"
- "Father Anchises looking joyfully up to the stars of heaven and raising his hands palms upwards, lifted his voice in prayer"
- Juxtaposes the fear of the parents.
- very much about family, we almost forget that there is a war going on outside of the walls.
- "if the gods in heaven had wished for me to go onliving they would have preserved this place for me "
- they all remain pious
- "my own right hand will earn me my death"
- "her cries of anguish were filling the whole house when suddenly there was a great miracle"
- believe it is a sign from Jupiter that they are all ment to leave and survive.
- they all remain pious
- The gods/ fate.
- "the engine of fate mounted our walls"
- The serpents that attacked Laocoon were sent by Athene.
- "it is Jupiter himself who us rousing the gods against the armies oif Troy"
- "Illium has come to an end [...] Jupiter has given everything over to Argos"
- "they would have been carried off by the flames [...] if my loving care were not defending them" - Venus protects Aeneas' family.
- Cassandra tries to tell them but she will never be believed.
- "if divine fate, if the minds of the gods had not been set against us [...] Troy would still be standing"
- "four times it stooped on the very threshold of the gate, and four times the armour clanged in its womb"
- "the weapons parted and the flames drew back before me"
- The Greeks.
- "with blood you must find a way to return" - Sinon
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- "brute force made the breach"
- not skill, the Trojans may have been defeated but they hold the high ground
- "sometimes [...] Greeks were cut down in their hour of triumph"
- "filling the vast cavern of its womb with armed soldiers"
- the give birth to nothing but violence and hatred.
- "fatal offering"
- "pity me in my great sufferings" - Sinon
- dramatic irony.
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- The Trojans.
- they trusted Sinon and pitied him. they are the victims.
- the ones who hold the power are often reffered to as snakes the only time a Trojan is reffered to thisway is when they are defeating the Greek Andrgoeos
- "they saw the end was near, and these were the weapons they were preparing to defend themselves with in the very moment of death"
- "unmarried girls and boys sang their hymns"
- everything about the Trojans suggests innocence.
- They are, in some ways, nieve. "we had never met villainy on this scale before" (Sinon's story)
- The fall of Priam.
- "Hecuba and her daughters were sitting flocked round the alter, like doves driven down in a black storm"
- juxtaposition, they are doves and he is the black storm.
- "reached his father and his mother, and vomited his lifes blood before their eyes"
- Barbarian like cruelty
- "a corpse without a name"
- emphasises how far troy has fallen, Priam is now just another casualty.
- "he was dragging Priam to the very alter, his body trembelling as it slithered thrugh the pools of his sons blood"
- Barbarian like cruelty
- "Hecuba and her daughters were sitting flocked round the alter, like doves driven down in a black storm"
- Aeneas' character.
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