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A 3 page paper which examines who was more responsible for the death and carnage in Homer’s The Iliad, Agamemnon or Achilles. No additional sources cited.
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and the reader is really only getting a look into the final stages of the war, or at the very least a section of the great war. In this war
there are two characters who play very important, and violent roles. They are Agamemnon and Achilles. Both men are very different, yet similar in their need to war. They are
also two men who seem somewhat unfriendly towards one another. Yet, they are the two men who ultimately seem to push the war and drive it in one direction or
another. With that in mind the following paper examines who is more responsible for the carnage and death in The Iliad, with the ultimate argument that it is Agamemnon who
is responsible. Responsibility for Carnage in The Iliad While it is true that Achilles is a warring man, a man who is good at war and a man
who seems to enjoy war, he actually takes himself out of the battle for awhile and it seems that carnage rages wild in relationship to his side and losses, including
his very good friend Patroclus. It is only through the death of his friend, which was perhaps his responsibility, that he comes back into the war and rages, causing a
great deal of loss and death in his wake. But, he is not the power, the real power, behind the war and he really only seems to serve as a
man whom the other men respect and admire and wish to fight under and for. It is not his decision to continue the war, or to have fought the war
in the first place and so while he is responsible for some deaths and carnage, especially since he is such a good soldier, he is not the most responsible in
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