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A 6 page paper discussing the second chapter of the book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, by Barbara W. Tuchman. The author has gone beyond good reason in the amount of information she has put in the one chapter that deals with the Trojan Horse. Her thesis appears to be that this ancient story is a foundation for all stories to follow and that all of the aspects human nature can be found in the classic tale. Following the paper is an excerpt from the Encyclopedia Britannica that describes one specific character, Orestes, who was mentioned, but not described sufficiently in the chapter under examination.
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this book, titled "Prototype: The Trojans take a wooden horse within their walls," Tuchman states that, "All of human experience is in the tale of Troy" (36). By describing, in
detail, all of the characters, and their individual histories, Tuchman attempts to illustrate that the emotions, reactions, and actions of these people are endemic of people in general as well
as perhaps government systems both past and present and that somehow this story is the foundation of all stories to come.
With the thesis of the chapter on the Trojan horse the reader is, as mentioned, exposed to the many details of the characters of this ancient
story. She tells of all the interwoven relationships between them and illustrates their motives. At first Tuchman explains a bit about the evolution of the story as it goes from
one generation to the next. She describes how not until Virgils "Aenied" did the story become largely the one we know today: "We must take the story of the Wooden
Horse as it comes, as Aeneas told it to the enraptured Dido, and as it is passed, with further revisions and embellishments by Latin successors, to the Middle Ages and
from the medieval romancers to us" (37). In the next stage of emphasis Tuchman gives the reader
the background of the main characters. It is the opinion of this writer that she involves far too many people in the story to make it enjoyable, much less understandable.
In a matter of a few pages she mentions King Priam, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Poseidon, Apollo, Zeus, Hector, Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax, Thymoetes, Capys, Laocoon, Sinon, Pliny, Emperor
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