Ajax, an ancient tragic play, takes place in the middle of the Trojan War and explores themes of honor and pride. The hero Ajax is enraged because he was not given Achilles' armor, and vows to take his revenge upon Odysseus and the other Greek leaders. Athena, friend to Odysseus, instead tricks him into believing a herd of sheep are his enemies, and Ajax proceeds to kill and torture them. Upon realizing what he has done, Ajax, ashamed and humiliated, commits suicide.
Rage The founding stone of The Iliad Rage is the emotion around which the story of Iliad revolves The story goes ahead because of rage to certain extent Honor was of utmost importance to the Greek people No man would give up his honor at any cost No gifts and prizes could be enough to compensate for lost honor and pride When a man who looses his honor or feels that he is disrespected he is filled full of rage And this is exactly what happened with the God like Achilles when Agamemnon dishonored
Odysseus and Aeneas are two of the most prominent characters in Greek Mythology They are considered to be two of the greatest heroes of their respective races Obviously these two characters have several similarities and inevitably some differences as well for several reasons First as a similarity theyre both survivors able to keep going when everything is stripped from them At first Aeneas is wandering the Mediterranean as the Aeneid opens with everything that remains of his past loaded into hi
ENDINGS IN RENAISSANCE TRAGEDY Among the various definitions of tragedy the one most commonly proffered is a play that treats at the most uncompromising level human suffering or pathos with death being the usual conclusion According to Aristotles Poetics the purpose of tragedy is to show how humans are at the mercy of fate and to cleanse the audience by provoking extreme emotions of pity and terror The tragic actions on the dramatic stage cause the audience to experience these extreme feelings