Excessive Pride
Krystiana Turner
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EXCESSIVE PRIDE
Dangers of pride and having excessive pride can be harmful. Both the book the Aeneid and the play Medea are some good examples of why pride can be harmful. The Aeneid was written by one of the greatest known roman poets during the Golden Age of Rome, Virgil. Virgil was requested to write the aeneid by Octvious because he wanted Virgil to write Rome a history. Virgil wrote a 12-book epic that tells a story about a love story about a queen named Queen Dido and a man named Aeneas. The main focus in Book IV of the Aeneid was Virgil gives specific details about why Aeneus has to leave Queen Dido right after they marry. On the other hand the play Medea was written by Euripides in 431 B.C. Medea was about a sorcerer named Medea and her husband named Jason who decided to leave her. The theme for the Aeneid was “Duty to you gods before personal desire”. As for the play Medea the theme was “To think rationally in difficult times”. Both essentially resulting in death for instance the killing Queen Dido’s self, and killing sons to seek revenge.
The epic “The Aeneid” and the play “Medea” both show why danger of pride and having excessive pride can be harmful. For example in The Aeneid, Queen Dido says, “Projects were broken off, laid over, and the menacing huge walls with cranes unmanning stood against the sky”. By her saying this she pretty much telling us about how in love she is with Aeneus, and how she is forgetting about her duties as Queen of Carthage. Meanwhile the play “Medea” the nurse says, “It’s a bad thing to be born of high voice and brought up willful”. Meaning that people are born spoiled and greedy causing them to feel like they are better then everyone else. In the end in both “The Aeneid” and “Medea death was the last resort. In “The Aeneid Virgil wrote about how Queen Dido killed herself, she killed herself due to the fact that Aeneus was leaving to found Rome and she could not bear to live without him.
Period.6
EXCESSIVE PRIDE
Dangers of pride and having excessive pride can be harmful. Both the book the Aeneid and the play Medea are some good examples of why pride can be harmful. The Aeneid was written by one of the greatest known roman poets during the Golden Age of Rome, Virgil. Virgil was requested to write the aeneid by Octvious because he wanted Virgil to write Rome a history. Virgil wrote a 12-book epic that tells a story about a love story about a queen named Queen Dido and a man named Aeneas. The main focus in Book IV of the Aeneid was Virgil gives specific details about why Aeneus has to leave Queen Dido right after they marry. On the other hand the play Medea was written by Euripides in 431 B.C. Medea was about a sorcerer named Medea and her husband named Jason who decided to leave her. The theme for the Aeneid was “Duty to you gods before personal desire”. As for the play Medea the theme was “To think rationally in difficult times”. Both essentially resulting in death for instance the killing Queen Dido’s self, and killing sons to seek revenge.
The epic “The Aeneid” and the play “Medea” both show why danger of pride and having excessive pride can be harmful. For example in The Aeneid, Queen Dido says, “Projects were broken off, laid over, and the menacing huge walls with cranes unmanning stood against the sky”. By her saying this she pretty much telling us about how in love she is with Aeneus, and how she is forgetting about her duties as Queen of Carthage. Meanwhile the play “Medea” the nurse says, “It’s a bad thing to be born of high voice and brought up willful”. Meaning that people are born spoiled and greedy causing them to feel like they are better then everyone else. In the end in both “The Aeneid” and “Medea death was the last resort. In “The Aeneid Virgil wrote about how Queen Dido killed herself, she killed herself due to the fact that Aeneus was leaving to found Rome and she could not bear to live without him.