When reading Euripides Trojan Women, the story focus on what occurs after the Trojan War when the city has been destroyed by the Greek Army. The story is from the perspective of the Trojan women Hecuba, her daughter Kasandra, Hector wife Andromache and Helen of Sparta. After the fall of Troy the Greek generals capture these women and they our given as trophies to the generals of the Army. During this time Hecuba queen of Troy is distort when she finds out her daughter Kasandra as priestess to the god Apollo has been selected as a bride to the Greek King Agamemnon. Kassandra a priestess who has the gift to see the future during this time does not seem as upset as the other women when finding out her fate, she acts happy because she knows she
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Kassandra is predicting terrible fates for the Greek army in her rage and anger and because of this she angers Talthybios a herald of the Greeks as he fights back against her, she says to her mom is a criticising way “This man is a clever lackey. How do these men get their titles “Heralds”?... they are mere minions, creatures attached to tyrants and to cities” (423-426). This action of Kassandra show she lack of fear and how the madness of anger has taken over her judgment talking back to a man who could hurt her and not caring for the actions of her words . After she finds out the fate of her mother who is going to be a slave to the General Odysseus and she tells to Talthybios to tell him that his future “Unhappy man, Odysseus does not know what suffering await him. The day will come when he will look back on my suffering . . .as a golden age” (431-432). This showing how little care that Kassandra has for the actions of words tell stating what she feelings is true with little care for the actions even though her mother and her could be greatly hurt based on what she says. As she turns to Talthybios she not only mocks the Greeks but threatens them as she says “You commander of danaids not Danaans, of women not men, you fancy that all you accomplishing some magnificent feat…And I…will
Kassandra is predicting terrible fates for the Greek army in her rage and anger and because of this she angers Talthybios a herald of the Greeks as he fights back against her, she says to her mom is a criticising way “This man is a clever lackey. How do these men get their titles “Heralds”?... they are mere minions, creatures attached to tyrants and to cities” (423-426). This action of Kassandra show she lack of fear and how the madness of anger has taken over her judgment talking back to a man who could hurt her and not caring for the actions of her words . After she finds out the fate of her mother who is going to be a slave to the General Odysseus and she tells to Talthybios to tell him that his future “Unhappy man, Odysseus does not know what suffering await him. The day will come when he will look back on my suffering . . .as a golden age” (431-432). This showing how little care that Kassandra has for the actions of words tell stating what she feelings is true with little care for the actions even though her mother and her could be greatly hurt based on what she says. As she turns to Talthybios she not only mocks the Greeks but threatens them as she says “You commander of danaids not Danaans, of women not men, you fancy that all you accomplishing some magnificent feat…And I…will