'Circe and Nausicaa in the Odysseys Essay\r'

'These quartette characters all shake the same role in spite of appearance the Odyssey and the Aeneid as they be all put in place as obstacles to the hero’s betoken. Odysseus and Aeneas two establish arduous journeys to undertake and these characters are merely temptresses, there to pr until nowt the heroes from fulfilling there quests and in my prospect pose a greater threat to the ut well-nigh of the journeys then the physical dangers both heroes rush to endure. all the same although within these epics the characters have negative roles to play they themselves are victims of fate.\r\nWithout each heroes underlying mission spurring them on it is reasonable to assume each of these women would have a good chance of having a long-term birth with either Odysseus or Aeneas (indeed each character with the elision of Nausicaa engage in a brief human relationship with the hero of there respective epic) and the fact these relationships have to be discontinued or unexplor ed seems foul to the so called ‘temptresses’ and therefore causes the reader to evoke savvy for the characters. These women, although play identical roles, are in real various circumstance and are real different characters and therefore the level of sympathy we finger for them varies and I believe it is fair to say that it is Dido we feel the around sympathy for:\r\nAn meaning(a) feature of why we feel so much sympathy for Dido is the fact we deal so much of her place setting. In book 1 of the Aeneid we make up ones mind out Dido is an exile from her home city of Tyre after her br other(a) Pygmalion killed Dido’s preserve Sychaeus ‘In blind lust for his gold’ (Sychaeus was plain ‘the wealthiest of the Phoenicians’). Dido, by the advice of her dead husband, rounds up the men ‘goaded by savage hatred or ready fear’ of Pygmalion and sets sail for a new home. This background is important as it gives the reader a understanding of attachment with the character that doesn’t seem to reserve to the other characters, the fact that Dido has such a debauched past means we sympathize with her from a very early stage, which gives her ultimate down fall even to a greater extent tragical i.e. this is a character we sleep to attempther rather then an other faceless characters that is sacrificed for the quest (such as Palinurus and Elpenor).\r\nThe female characters of the Odyssey just wear out’t come with this tragic background; The familiarity the interview would have of Calypso’s and Circe’s background would be through legend, which regardless of how tragic just about legends may be, are fantastical, which means the consultation wouldn’t relate to them like they would Dido’s background and doesn’t give the goddesses the sense of vulnerability you get with Dido. Nausicaa is a schoolgirlish princess of Phaeacia, so although her background isnâ⠂¬â„¢t mention in any great gunpoint in the odyssey, as the princess of a paradise it is tall(a) to be negative.\r\nAnother impotent sympathy actor is the characters motivation for falling for their respective hero. Calypso and Circe have the least kindly motives as they are only looking for a companion (a modern phrasal idiom we would use is trophy husband) and as goddesses have more then potential had many companions before Odysseus. Nausicaa barely has a crush on Odysseus, and therefore her mad attachment to him is not very high, the fact they neer engage in a relationship likewise means their attachment isn’t as maturate as the other characters. Nausicaa and Dido do have whiz thing in common however as they are both victims of divine interposition. Nausicaa’s intervention by Athene (improving his appearance) however is not as direct as the intervention Dido endures (being forced into bonk by Cupid); as a result the audience doesn’t get the same s ense of the rigorousness of fate with Nausicaa that we get for Dido.\r\nProbably the most important aspect of the characters for which evokes our sympathy is the aftermath of being permit down by our heroes. Although Dido is the only character whose mend continues after the hero leaves we can still make an educate guess as to what would happen to the other characters. Circe and Calypso are both goddesses and are likely to find other companions after Odysseus, both as goddesses are in control of there emotions when confrontation Odysseus which means they should be much more collected upon his departure (the fact Calypso takes Odysseus against his will shows she should picture possible heartbreak in the future).\r\nNausicaa as a young girl is much more penetrable to heartbreak however as a young girl she has her whole life a matter of her which means she is much more likely to find another man, and the fact no commitment is make means she is simply loosing a crush apposed to a lover which means her heartbreak will be less then that of the other characters. Dido as the most vulnerable (lost her husband and livelihood) has the furthest to fall, and assuming the educated guesses as to the outcome of the other characters are correct, by committing suicide Dido suffers the slash fate by far. concur 4 of the Aeneid dictates the devotion and downfall of Dido; Dido lets her civic duties playground slide due to the distraction of Aeneas and the City of Carthage’s winding grinds to a halt. Dido states in her speech to Aeneas that her people have lost all respect for her, and as a result she feels the only way to regain some respect is to kill herself.\r\nBook 4 could near be a tragic play; Dido’s hubristic act of sleeping with Aeneas before marriage leads to her harmful downfall; a downfall which can be said to be entirely down to the inclemency of fate and the gods. Dido is the most vulnerable with the most in addition loose, and as far as we know comes to the worst end so for me is far more sympathetic a character then the female characters of the Odyssey.\r\n'