Effects Of Violence In The Iliad

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Brutality of War
(An Evaluation of three types of violence while looking at the Iliad by Homer.) Violence is something that seems to be simple. It is the process of hurting someone else, but how? Of course you see violence when people become physical, but in reality there are so many ways to look at the word violence. The way people speak to each other or treat the people around them is a form of violence. Every day teenage children go to a place, called high school. They enter an area meant to be used for learning, but instead find an environment filled with cruelty. Girls make fun of other people because of how they look, talk or because they are just different. The boys walk around with an attitude of ownership because they feel they are …show more content…

Both Achilles and Hector enter the war knowing that they are going to die. This is the war that will end their life. “Sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed…” Achilles was going to die and there was no way to change the outcome of his life. Hector who was fighting for the other side also knew that he would die in the war, fighting for his family. These men knew that if they went to the war they would die, but they went anyway. Their fate was already laid down. Each day there are students who wake up and know that they are doomed. Bullies have tormented them every day and in their heart they know that the pain will come. They want to run; they want to hide from their pain. However, deep down their pride has stopped them. When they show up at the school after being ridiculed and abused, maybe they will be able to find a way out of their misery. They show up, but their fate has already been decided. The Comics have already chosen what is to …show more content…

For centuries people have used sex has a weapon. When you conquered a city you won their women. The women would never be a wife, but instead they were raped. It showed their dominance and their victory, but in the end it didn’t mean anything. It was used to make women submissive and something to brag to their women. “The other girl, just now the heralds came and led her away from camp, Briseus’ daughter, the prize the armies gave me.” It was never about loving Briseus, but it had everything to do with pride. They wanted to assert their dominance over her and others. They wanted their reward or prize which was a girl that they could rape. Within the wall of a High school, people still see sexual violence. Boys will have sex with girl, just to say that they did. It had nothing to do with liking the girl or anything about the girl, but about the conquest. On the other side women will at times use sex to manipulate men into doing what they way. No matter how you look at it, sex is used to degrade or get what someone

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