What I Feel for the Fall of Troy

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.” Based on Aeneas sorrowful story, Trojans suddenly lose their power, position, own city (Troy), king, etc. It might not happen if there was no traitor to Trojans whose name is Sinon, the Greek youth. For me, being traitor to somebody was only a part of his cleverness to defeat you, so I don’t trust anyone much.

Having highly elevated and strong walls for city of Troy was a very good idea but the problems with Trojans are being very kind-hearted and feel pity to the youth from the opponent even though they were at the middle of the war. This became one of the ways of Greeks, Trojans’ opponent, to make their plan successful. As I read the Book II of Aeneid, I felt sympathy for Trojans because they accepted and welcomed Sinon for their side very well. Because of feeling pity for Sinon, they never thought that this youth would be one of the causes why Troy will fall.

One of the problems of Trojans is also accepting the Greeks’ gift, wooden horse, easily. I believe that most of them never thought that it would be used to trick and defeat them. At this time, I wasn’t able to feel sympathy for them, instead, I felt angry to their stupidity because they took the wooden horse to display in their city as their pride without thinking that it might be a trap or something. But, as I imagine how the Troy falls and how Greeks attack the sleeping city of Troy, I really felt sympathy.

The Trojan Horse inside the walls of city of Troy

When I put myself on Aeneas’ point of view, I knew the feeling of relinquishing own native land and through encouraging myself by thinking that gods and goddesses have better plans for me, such as building a new hope by building a Roman Empire, made me to realize why I was forced to do that.

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