Helen ran away with Paris and thus bears some of the responsibility for the deaths of so many of her countrymen. Unlike Paris, she does not take her role in the carnage light. She is presented here in the light of her own struggle, the struggle of a virtual prisoner who claims that she would like to be reunited with her original husband Menelaus.her weaving a robe covered with images of war, Greek and Trojans, shows that she undoubtedly realizes the magnitudinal nature, the war has taken because of her. It torments her so much that it must be expressed in her handicraft. His labeling of herself a ‘hateful creature’ and her admission that she wishes that she had died the day Paris brought her to Troy demonstrate her shame and self loathing. Her remorseful reflections upon the homeland that she left behind as she surveys the Achaian ranks arranged beneath the walls of Troy further reveals her
Helen ran away with Paris and thus bears some of the responsibility for the deaths of so many of her countrymen. Unlike Paris, she does not take her role in the carnage light. She is presented here in the light of her own struggle, the struggle of a virtual prisoner who claims that she would like to be reunited with her original husband Menelaus.her weaving a robe covered with images of war, Greek and Trojans, shows that she undoubtedly realizes the magnitudinal nature, the war has taken because of her. It torments her so much that it must be expressed in her handicraft. His labeling of herself a ‘hateful creature’ and her admission that she wishes that she had died the day Paris brought her to Troy demonstrate her shame and self loathing. Her remorseful reflections upon the homeland that she left behind as she surveys the Achaian ranks arranged beneath the walls of Troy further reveals her