Brutality In The Aeneid

Aeneid has gone through The Fields of Mourning, where he his greeted by his former lover Dido. Once Aeneas sees Dido he begins to break down with emotion expressing, “Did I bring only death to you?” (602). Aeneid goes onto proclaim to Dido that although he was unwilling to leave her, the gods had a mission for him to execute. Continuing on with his expedition he also sees the decease combatants of the Trojan War. A pivotal moment in the walk is when Aeneas sees a dismantled Deiphobus, sadden by his presence, Aeneas is heartbroken, and the two share a heartfelt conversation (660-724). In the middle of the conversation Sibyl forces Aeneas to move on with his expedition, there he witness a “fortress encircled by a triple wall and girdled by a rapid flood of flames”
(727-729).
Aeneas halts in fear, and this begins a forum for terror against criminals. Tisiphone depicts a graphic image of the kind of brutality saying, “lashing them in her left hand she grips her gruesome vipers” (755-757). After seeing the terrible torturing, Aeneas moves on to the Groves of Blessedness. The Groves of Blessedness is described elegantly mentioning, “Here was the company of those who suffered wounds, fighting for their homeland; and of those who, while they lived their lives, served as pure priests” (874-876). A special moment arises when Aeneas sees his father Anchises in the green valley. Aeneas inquires about the various aspects of journey to his father, in this dialogue Aeneas wants to understand the value of the different notions of the underworld. After Anchises explains the concept, he rushes to the point of Aeneas’ expedition. Anchises illustrated to Aeneid what will come for the future of his
journey to Rome.