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The Heroic Hero In The Iliad

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The Iliad is an epic poem written by Homer. The story is about Trojan War in mythology begin with the argument between the main characters Achilles and Agamemnon. In the story, there are many hero throughout the plots and they follow the same heroic code. For example, heroes needs to have enough physical skills to have a higher status in the community and warrior society. Those heroic code guides all the hero character’s destiny in the story. As each character has their own personality, there will also be some characters who are less heroic than others.

The character who probably counts the most heroic is Hector, one of the prince in the Trojan city. His reputation in both community and army is high in general, one of the reason is …show more content…

Compare to Agamemnon in the Achaean side who takes any prize women he wants to and have the biggest amount of share prices, even though Hector also takes a lot of price as he is the best warrior in the city, he is a really good leader. Aside of this, though he is strong and his leadership is strong, he knows a day when Troy will be destroyed, but he keep fighting for his people: “Honour - for in my heart and soul I know/ a day will come when ancient Ilium will be perish.” (J, 161~162) The quote appears during the conversation between him and Andromache. Hector tells Andromache that he knows Troy will be burned to ground, but he still needs to fight to protect his family and his city and try to avoid the day when Achaean crushed Troy. His enduring heart keeps him going forward and being brave and finally calmly face his death in the end of the story. Everyone is not perfect and so as Hector: “Hector pulled at the corpse: now to behead it/ and give the trunk to Trojan dogs!” (N, 3~4) After Hector killed Patroclus, he doesn’t think of how to take care of the body, instead, he wants to cut Patroclus’ head off and give the body to the dogs. But aside this, Hector is the most heroic hero in the whole The

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