Love can drive people to do crazy things. It can cause you to lose hope and act irrational. There is no better story to prove this than the Aeneid. At the time of Caesar Augustus being emperor in 27 B.C., there was no national epic to rival that of the Greeks. Setting out to write it, Virgil wanted to tell a different side of the Trojan War story, than the one that was portrayed in the Iliad. He told the story through Aeneas, a man who was at the Trojan war and went to Carthage during a shipwreck. There he met Dido, the queen, and the two of them fell in love. After a few months of marriage the couple had to depart from one another due to Zeus sending Hermes down to tell Aeneas to leave and found the Roman Empire. While trying to leave Dido
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Dido herself is first attracted to Aeneas based on his looks and shows this when she says, “How princely, how courageous, what a soldier.” (Virgil 13). Through this you can see looks mean a lot to Dido and that it was the first thing that brought Aeneas and her together. Along with that lust can get confused for love when you first meet someone. In these instances people like their partner more based on look than on anything else. “A lot of people find themselves committing to another individual in the form of a relationship simply due to a mutual physical attraction which is mistaken for love.”(Yeboah). Liking someone simply based on looks causes problems down the road when the physical attraction wears off because lust does not last forever. When lusting after someone, the personality is one of the last things that is thought about, therefore little information is shared. In that retrospect loving someone with an unknown personality is impossible. “A lot of people who are desperate to be loved, find themselves committing to a relationship once they come into contact with a person who does an unusual thing or two to sweep them of their feet. Relationships like these are rushed into because the couple doesn’t take the time to study one another and really find out if they are compatible for one another.”(Yeboah). Without figuring out compatibility, there is no way to know if the relationship …show more content…
Before the relationship start to go sour, couples enter a phase of all together happiness. “Oftentimes, when you first start dating someone everything is perfect. You might think of this as a sort of ‘honeymoon phase’” (Northern Star). The “honeymoon phase” only lasts for so long people start to realize that the relationship is not going anywhere because there is not anything substantial. A marriage cannot be expected to last if the couple does not leave the “honeymoon phase” and join the real world. When said phase wears off, complications can arise such as not wanting to be in the relationship anymore. Aeneas shows this when he says,“I never held the torches of a bridegroom,/Never entered upon the pact of marriage.”(Virgil 443-444). After being told by the gods to go to Rome, Aeneas tries to leave Dido by saying they were never married in the first place, therefore, it should not matter if he leaves. When Aeneas says this, Dido becomes very depressed about their ending relationship. All of these can lead a person to go a little crazy and have a mental
Dido herself is first attracted to Aeneas based on his looks and shows this when she says, “How princely, how courageous, what a soldier.” (Virgil 13). Through this you can see looks mean a lot to Dido and that it was the first thing that brought Aeneas and her together. Along with that lust can get confused for love when you first meet someone. In these instances people like their partner more based on look than on anything else. “A lot of people find themselves committing to another individual in the form of a relationship simply due to a mutual physical attraction which is mistaken for love.”(Yeboah). Liking someone simply based on looks causes problems down the road when the physical attraction wears off because lust does not last forever. When lusting after someone, the personality is one of the last things that is thought about, therefore little information is shared. In that retrospect loving someone with an unknown personality is impossible. “A lot of people who are desperate to be loved, find themselves committing to a relationship once they come into contact with a person who does an unusual thing or two to sweep them of their feet. Relationships like these are rushed into because the couple doesn’t take the time to study one another and really find out if they are compatible for one another.”(Yeboah). Without figuring out compatibility, there is no way to know if the relationship …show more content…
Before the relationship start to go sour, couples enter a phase of all together happiness. “Oftentimes, when you first start dating someone everything is perfect. You might think of this as a sort of ‘honeymoon phase’” (Northern Star). The “honeymoon phase” only lasts for so long people start to realize that the relationship is not going anywhere because there is not anything substantial. A marriage cannot be expected to last if the couple does not leave the “honeymoon phase” and join the real world. When said phase wears off, complications can arise such as not wanting to be in the relationship anymore. Aeneas shows this when he says,“I never held the torches of a bridegroom,/Never entered upon the pact of marriage.”(Virgil 443-444). After being told by the gods to go to Rome, Aeneas tries to leave Dido by saying they were never married in the first place, therefore, it should not matter if he leaves. When Aeneas says this, Dido becomes very depressed about their ending relationship. All of these can lead a person to go a little crazy and have a mental