“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.
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| 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.
Blog 4.1
Blog 4.1
