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The Aeneid - Online Term Paper

The Aeneid

It was an early summer mourning when the ship of Aeneas washed up on the
shores of Carthage, an event that would effect the queen of Carthage forever. When a
love affair breaks out between Aeneas and Queen Dido the great queen has an internal
conflict between passion and responsibility. This is shown through guilt, lack of
confidence by her people, and tragedy.
Didos guilt shows her conflict. Throughout the beginning of book 4 Didos sister
Anna is telling her to leave Aeneas alone and to be faithful to her deceased husband. On
page 88 Dido says, “My love has gone with Sychaeus; let him keep it, keep it with him
forever in the grave” talking about her husband, and the conflict she ...

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don’t have a leader and are being left to fend for themselves.
They feel Dido is not paying any attention to her city, only Aeneas. The effect of this is
that the reader feels that Dido should stop goofing around and pay attention to her city. It
makes the characters look down on the queen, and begin to loose faith in her. Virgil was
trying to rub it in even further that Roman men are irresistible to women. People are
loosing faith in Dido and all she cares about is Aeneas.
This conflict ends with tragedy in Didos life. Near the end of book four Aenaes
decides to leave Carthage and finish his mission. When this happens Dido is so
distraught she has a funeral pyre built and commits suicide. This causes the people to
become sorrowful for Didos death. It also leads to guilt of Aeneas because he thinks it is
his fault. Also it causes the reader to feel sorrow for Didos family and city. When Virgil
wrote this section he wanted to show how dedicated Roman men were by ...

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Added: 2/3/2005 02:08:50 PM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 490
Pages: 2

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