Irony, Hindsight, and Regret By Joshua Evers
The Irony and detailed Hindsight presented in Book II specifically caught my eyes the moment my neurons registered its presence. Aside from the general enjoyment in laughing at someone else's mistakes and immediately seeing where they messed up, I was quickly reminded of myself in nearly every situation where I managed to royally mess up.
Here is a quote from page 42 on lines 325-329.
" There on the very threshold of the beach
It jarred to a halt four times, four times the arms
In the belly thrown together made a sound-
Yet on we strove unmindful, deaf and blind,
To place the monster on our blessed height."
They then speak of doom that's fate is sealed on the unsuspecting Trojans and the destruction of Troy quickly follows.
This is my life. I will be completely unmindful of an event and only recover my awareness after colliding with a massive iceberg. Thankfully, my miniature icebergs are me tripping on the sidewalk or forgetting to save a file. The Trojans, losing many of their loved ones, saw this as more than a defeat or simple mistake. They betrayed their fellow Trojans, men who were very skeptical of the horse, and proceeded to put their entire city in the hands of their enemy due to their ignorance. On top of a defeat and a betrayal, the Trojans literally threw all their success in defending the city completely out the window by bringing in a large and obviously hollow foreign object. The deep pain and heartache is even blatant in the Trojan Hector, as he is contrasted from parading into Troy wearing the armor of Achilles, and now standing as a depressing man covered in the blood of his homeland. I have no doubt that the surviving few Trojans are not willing to take any chances after they suffered such a loss. This entire memory sours their minds and absolutely every detail that remains in their mind pertains specifically to their failures that led to the loss of their brothers and sisters of the city.
P.S. I commented on the posts of Zelda and Moriah.
I mentioned this in my blog post, but, in lines 59-63 of Book two, The Trojans are basically being mocked and made fun of for accepting the hollowed horse as a gift. The trojans themselves did not realize it was a bad idea to accept the gift. I honestly do not think they stopped and thought through the repercussions of accepting the gift. Personally, I don't know how I would feel if an enemy who I was just at war with showed up with this ridiculously large wooden horse. I mean, if you think about it, the horse would have to be hollow because of how big it was. Them Trojans definitely should have thought things through better.
ReplyDeleteI kind of tend to be like to be like the Trojans at times. I make mistakes that in hindsight I should have seen coming from miles away. One good thing that comes from the comparison is that the Trojans do recover from their mistakes in the book and go on to found Rome.
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