Fate and a No free will
Dakota Parnell,
Sorry Aeneas, suck it buttercup you are not going to like what you were volun-told to do by the gods. A line that caught my eye in class and a theme that shall pop up later on in this book is where Aeneas speaks on how he wishes he could have died back in war in his beloved city. Aeneas has no free will. none. Zip. Later on in the book Aeneas speaks to a character, who shall not be named for spoiler reasons, that he does not want to go, but he must go. He can not even make a decision for himself at all. If I too were controlled by a pantheon of gods who seem really annoying ad fickle I would want to have had the honorable death in battle like my fallen comrades. All I'm saying is Aeneas is going to have to deal with a lot of problems that his foretold destiny creates and he has to deal with. He must deal with being a puppet to the gods for now. I guess this speaks to the ideal of Rome that it is for the betterment of the whole and it doesn't matter about one sole person as long as Rome succeeds. Aeneas is extremely relate-able to the individual, maybe he is depicted this way to show how the readers that no matter what you must sacrifice your comfort and what you want for the betterment of the whole.
P.s I have read this book before and its shines a new light on passages I have read before when thinking of how this book was written and how it played a role in its society.
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Sorry Aeneas, suck it buttercup you are not going to like what you were volun-told to do by the gods. A line that caught my eye in class and a theme that shall pop up later on in this book is where Aeneas speaks on how he wishes he could have died back in war in his beloved city. Aeneas has no free will. none. Zip. Later on in the book Aeneas speaks to a character, who shall not be named for spoiler reasons, that he does not want to go, but he must go. He can not even make a decision for himself at all. If I too were controlled by a pantheon of gods who seem really annoying ad fickle I would want to have had the honorable death in battle like my fallen comrades. All I'm saying is Aeneas is going to have to deal with a lot of problems that his foretold destiny creates and he has to deal with. He must deal with being a puppet to the gods for now. I guess this speaks to the ideal of Rome that it is for the betterment of the whole and it doesn't matter about one sole person as long as Rome succeeds. Aeneas is extremely relate-able to the individual, maybe he is depicted this way to show how the readers that no matter what you must sacrifice your comfort and what you want for the betterment of the whole.
P.s I have read this book before and its shines a new light on passages I have read before when thinking of how this book was written and how it played a role in its society.
Commented on Cody's ad Will's
Wishes he could die but the gods won’t let him... Has to travel to some land but doesn’t want to… Reminds me of Jonah. Jonah said “I’m not going to Nineveh. ...Whoops, nope, God is giving me no choice.” Then after he didn’t get to see Nineveh go up in flames he said “I want to die. God, kill me please. ...No? I have to live a while longer? Shoot.” So… no pantheon of fickle gods, no, but Yahweh has had a history of not giving people that kind of freedom if He doesn’t want to.
ReplyDeleteWill you're amazing. That is another great parallel I didn't even think of.
DeleteI honestly just skimmed over that when I read it, but now that you mention it, it makes sense to me, It's kind of funny to me that will mentioned it reminding him of Jonah because that exactly what I thought too. The only difference I thought of what that God uses people to glorify him, while the gods in this story just write history.
ReplyDeleteBut to be fair the point of the book is kinda to tell the history of Rome in a way tat glorified Rome as a whole and showed it was favorable and foretold by the gods.
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