Juno And Turnus In The Aeneid

As we live throughout our everyday lives, most of us are constantly faced by struggles, and in the epic The Aeneid, a similar notion takes places in which Aeneas is portrayed as a hero who faces his own struggles. The interesting part of the poem is that Aeneas isn’t the only one who suffers from problems, but the characters that are causing Aeneas all these complications are also facing their own inner struggles. The Characters: Juno, Dido, and Turnus, are portrayed as characters who make bad decisions and try to tamper with the fate of Aeneas because of their own problems. One of Aeneas’s biggest issues is a goddess named Juno who is not happy with the destiny Aeneas is to fulfill. Because of Juno’s hatred toward the trojans, and her love …show more content…
Turnus, a Achilles like character, isn’t too happy with the arrival of Aeneas, and makes some bad calls because of his love for a women named Levinia. Levinia’s father, King Latinus, will only marry his daughter to a trojan who is to fulfill an old prophecy where a hero from far away is to marry his daughter. Turnus doesn't like this idea however, since he loves the women himself, his pride is hurt that another man is given the right to marry her. After being encouraged by some divine figures, Turnus builds up the wrath to set out for war against Aeneas. Aeneas’s, who knows that fulfilling his destiny wont be easy, is ready to fight the warrior and eventually kills him. The emotions that Turnus reveals before his death portray him to be a character just like Achilles. The characters makes a bad decision because of a women. Turnus knew that when the gods have decided fate, a mortal man can only do so much to tamper with it, but still the hero is conflicted by love and ends up encouraging his own death by trying to stop Aeneas from his