Dido And Aeneas Flaws

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Virgil depicts the animosity between Rome and Carthage through the unfortunate and disastrous romance between Dido and Aeneas. This is done by vilifying Aeneas and exposing his character flaws to mutually illustrate both Aeneas’s human and Roman characteristics. This is also accomplished through the downfall of Troy, consequently, bringing his compatriots’ apprehensions and worries to the audience’s forethought. Aeneas exudes a sense of apathetic pitilessness and disregard towards Dido in her very obvious

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