Running away was another option he quickly took up. As explained, "As Hector sees, unusual terrors rise, Struck by some god, he fears, recedes, and flies. He leaves the gates, he leaves the wall behind" (Homer 647). Immediately as Hector sees Achilles coming up from the distance does his courage go away as does he. Naturally, his survival instincts kick in, but that does not mean he still does not have a plan. Hector quickly thinks up a new plan to instead run around the wall and try to get closer to it so Achilles can be shot by the archers set out above. This itself is a sign of a honorable warrior, always prepared with a backup plan when events turn around. Though this might be seen as pure suicide for Hector to risk so much, he does say "Propitious once, and kind! Then welcome fate! 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and admire" (Homer 654)! He accepts death in the moment and says how what he did was a mighty deed instead of a cowardly act. This is true, for even confronting Achilles in the first place can be seen
Running away was another option he quickly took up. As explained, "As Hector sees, unusual terrors rise, Struck by some god, he fears, recedes, and flies. He leaves the gates, he leaves the wall behind" (Homer 647). Immediately as Hector sees Achilles coming up from the distance does his courage go away as does he. Naturally, his survival instincts kick in, but that does not mean he still does not have a plan. Hector quickly thinks up a new plan to instead run around the wall and try to get closer to it so Achilles can be shot by the archers set out above. This itself is a sign of a honorable warrior, always prepared with a backup plan when events turn around. Though this might be seen as pure suicide for Hector to risk so much, he does say "Propitious once, and kind! Then welcome fate! 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and admire" (Homer 654)! He accepts death in the moment and says how what he did was a mighty deed instead of a cowardly act. This is true, for even confronting Achilles in the first place can be seen