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Essay Galaxy - Being a Hero
Being a Hero
Thesis: Despite his accomplishments and the glory associated with his life,
Aeneas only achieves the status of hero through divine intervention, and this
god-given position causes him just as much grief as it does splendor.
What is a hero? We would like to think that a hero is someone who has
achieved some fantastic goal or status, or maybe someone who has accomplished a
great task. Heroes find themselves in situations of great pressure and act with
nobility and grace. Though the main character of Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas, is
such a person, it is not by his own doing. He encounters situations in which
death is near, in which love, hate, peace, and war come together to cause both
good and evil. In these positions he conducts himself with honor, by going
along with what the gods want. Only then goes on to pave the w....
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Number Of Words: 1508 |
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