How Is Dido Portrayed In Book 4 Of The Aeneid

Throughout Book Four of the Aeneid, the evolution of the epic's plot revolves around the relationship between Dido and Aeneas. Aeneas comes to Carthage, and Queen Dido is extremely infatuated with him as soon as she sees him. Book 4 is set off with our first passage from lines 20-29 in which the audience gets a sense of Dido's overwhelming love for Aeneas. As the book continues, Aeneas finds himself in a difficult position as Dido thinks they are married, but he is to leave Carthage in order to pursue his destiny. Ultimately, Dido feels betrayed and rejected, and she consequently decides to continually condemn Aeneas in lines 320-330. Initially, Book 4 is introduced with a happy tone, and Dido has now found her new love. After she has taken a vow to not marry again as a result of her former husband's death, she considers breaking the eternal promise when she meets Aeneas. Lines 20-29 begin with Dido's confession to her sister Anna. She tells her sister that Aeneas has now driven away her
In the first two lines of the passage, it is immediately evident that Dido tries to blame Aeneas for all of her problems with an anastrophe involving the repetition of "te." (Te propter Libycae gentes… te propter eundem). She blames Aeneas as the sole reason why the chieftans and the people are resentful towards Dido for taking kindly to the foreign Trojans. The phrase "…sidera adibam" is used by Dido in order to make Aeneas feel guilty because she was "approaching the stars" either in fame or immortality, and Aeneas is supposed to feel guilty for hindering this achievement. She starts to describe herself as deserted and trapped, and her last request of Aeneas was for her to bear his child, so she could raise him and be reminded of Aeneas. She says that having a "tiny Aeneas" would be the only thing to make her feel less captured and