Who Is Alexander The Great A Hero
ALEXANDER THE GREAT: AN ANALYSIS Alexander the Great is a villain because he murdered thousands and thousands of innocent people and he would conquer civilizations against their will.
Alexander would set fire to cities, destroy cultures, torture and kill people, and he even killed his dad and his brother. According to Article Lined with gold, “Like Achilles, Alexander had a quick and wild temper. Alexander set fire to the town of Thebes, as a punishment for their revolt, much like Achilles and his army did to the Asian city of Troy. Alexander, in a fit of rage, once tied the body of an African who was fighting for the Persians, to his chariot and drove it around the castle that the African was protecting. (Calvin 5)” A hero is not someone …show more content…
But Alexander the Great did things way worse than this. He conquered civilizations against their own will, he killed anyone that didn’t agree with him and anyone he thought would stand in his way. According to ALEXANDER-THE-NOT-SO-GREAT, “According to legend, when Alexander the Great saw that his empire stretched across the entire known world, he wept for there were no more kingdoms left to conquer. By the age of 30, Alexander ruled over an empire spanning three continents and covering more than two million square miles (The John Maxwell Company 1) Alexander had conquered the whole world by the time he was only 30, he passed away when he was just thirty two, murdering thousands of thousands of people. When there were no more civilizations to conquer he broke down and cried. He was a cruel killer. He wanted to murder and he had already taken over the whole known world and he wanted more. This is not a mark of someone who is a hero. A hero doesn’t kill millions of people a hero is not selfish enough to break down and cry when there was nobody else to kill. He only thought about himself since he would kill anybody that he thought might get in the way of anything he was
Alexander would set fire to cities, destroy cultures, torture and kill people, and he even killed his dad and his brother. According to Article Lined with gold, “Like Achilles, Alexander had a quick and wild temper. Alexander set fire to the town of Thebes, as a punishment for their revolt, much like Achilles and his army did to the Asian city of Troy. Alexander, in a fit of rage, once tied the body of an African who was fighting for the Persians, to his chariot and drove it around the castle that the African was protecting. (Calvin 5)” A hero is not someone …show more content…
But Alexander the Great did things way worse than this. He conquered civilizations against their own will, he killed anyone that didn’t agree with him and anyone he thought would stand in his way. According to ALEXANDER-THE-NOT-SO-GREAT, “According to legend, when Alexander the Great saw that his empire stretched across the entire known world, he wept for there were no more kingdoms left to conquer. By the age of 30, Alexander ruled over an empire spanning three continents and covering more than two million square miles (The John Maxwell Company 1) Alexander had conquered the whole world by the time he was only 30, he passed away when he was just thirty two, murdering thousands of thousands of people. When there were no more civilizations to conquer he broke down and cried. He was a cruel killer. He wanted to murder and he had already taken over the whole known world and he wanted more. This is not a mark of someone who is a hero. A hero doesn’t kill millions of people a hero is not selfish enough to break down and cry when there was nobody else to kill. He only thought about himself since he would kill anybody that he thought might get in the way of anything he was