Troy

[WCUgirl]

Originally posted by James
Well when Hecto died, I felt bad for Hector . . .

But I thought that wasa good scene. You could see that Hector didn't expect to win, he had mentally lost before he went outside.

You could kind of feel how bad that must have been.

What do you guys think of Paris running away from the personal conflict with menelaus? Was he a coward? Masculine virtues says he should have stayed and died, but perhaps women would see it differently? Maybe he just took the commom sense route?

I think, like Helen said, Paris is young. I think he was cowardly, but I think part of that too was he was so naive and inexperienced, that when faced with death, his emotions and human nature took over and his instinct was to run. I was a little upset w/ Paris after that scene, but as I mentioned earlier I wondered how he expected to realistically fight Menelaus and win if he had never been in battle before or even seen someone die. I felt that him challenging Menelaus was more of him trying to prove to Helen that he was a man, and that he was capable of protecting her, instead of actually trying to "do the right thing." I think he realized the error of his ways, and as I said I was disappointed to see the lack of character development on him, esp. after that fight and Hector's death, and by him trying to prove himself by practicing w/ the arrows I think was his way of making up for what he had done. His character grew through that and was able to kill Achilles at the end...I don't think he would have been able to do that had he not run from Menelaus and not had Hector there to protect him anymore.