Homer’s Odyssey and Vergil’s Aeneid both follow heroic Greek tragedies that center around a group of wars spanning many years. Achilles, a ghost in the Odyssey, and Creusa, a ghost in the Aeneid, both appear to people they care about in their respective stories but have different opinions on death. Achilles feels it is a long walk after an eventful life that remains extremely uneventful. Whereas Creusa believes death to be acceptance and understanding of the lives and environment around her. While both of these characters feels a sense of acceptance with their fate, Achilles feels more resigned and hopeless about his sentence than Creusa, who feels light and peaceful towards her own death.
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Achilles specifically calls upon images of war and battle to insight passion in his audience, only to tear them down in line 12, “Throng’d with pale ghosts, familiar with the dead?” to display his feelings of resignation. Contrastly, Creusa displays images of hope and love in lines 17-18: “[w]here gentle Tiber from his be beholds / The flow’ry meadows, and the feeding folds.” Achilles understands his fate is based on the actions he took while alive, but his choice of imagery shows regret towards the bitter eternity he knows he must suffer. Creusa also knows her actions dictated her fate, but she is more controlled and welcoming to the change, as apparent in her light and fond images shared with her husband. Achilles laments and resents his afterlife, causing his description to vastly reflect a bitter and unforgiving tone. This description connects to Creusa because she describes the life of her husband without her, yet she does so with hope rather than despair. This contrast tremendously contributes to her exaggerated
Because Achilles and Creusa both appear to those they cared about and who cared about them during their time on …show more content…
Achilles specifically calls upon images of war and battle to insight passion in his audience, only to tear them down in line 12, “Throng’d with pale ghosts, familiar with the dead?” to display his feelings of resignation. Contrastly, Creusa displays images of hope and love in lines 17-18: “[w]here gentle Tiber from his be beholds / The flow’ry meadows, and the feeding folds.” Achilles understands his fate is based on the actions he took while alive, but his choice of imagery shows regret towards the bitter eternity he knows he must suffer. Creusa also knows her actions dictated her fate, but she is more controlled and welcoming to the change, as apparent in her light and fond images shared with her husband. Achilles laments and resents his afterlife, causing his description to vastly reflect a bitter and unforgiving tone. This description connects to Creusa because she describes the life of her husband without her, yet she does so with hope rather than despair. This contrast tremendously contributes to her exaggerated