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    Mean and hateful‚ Troy Maxson may shock most from his affectionate ways. Troy can appear to be a very stubborn man who doesn’t listen to a thing that anyone says. He is this person. Troy is also someone who does have some feelings in his heart. He doesn’t want to show his caring feelings towards anyone for fear to lose his masculinity. Despite how Troy treats all of the people he cares about‚ he shows how he is both a sympathetic and non-sympathetic character. He does this by showing what is really

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    Helen of Troy I. CHARACTERS Major Characters: Achilles- Stanley Baker Agamemnon- Robert Douglas Andromache- Patricia Marmont Hector- Harry Andrews Helen of Troy- Rossana Podestà MenelausNiall MacGinnis Paris- Jacques Sernas Patroclus- Terence Longdon Priam- Cedric Hardwicke Ulysses- Torin Thatcher Minor Characters: Aeneas- Ronald Lewis Polydorus- Robert Brown Alpheus- TonioSelwart Andraste- Brigitte Bardot Andros- Eduardo Ciannelli Cassandra- Janette Scott Cora- Barbara Cavan Dancer- George

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    Troy Maxon Troy is a interesting character full of emotions which make him who he is. he can be a bitter character and sometimes quite unbearable. he is confident and sometimes overly confident and boasts a lot‚ showing impressions that he is trying hard‚ to hard‚ to impress people and this might make people think he is actually insecure and covers it up with overly strong opposit emotions. For some of the readers of this book‚ i can imagine that troys

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    The Movie Helen of Troy The movie Helen of Troy shows the important details before and inside the book Iliad. This movie helps the readers to understand this book. Also‚ it shows how the Trojan war started and how Troy has fallen. Like in the book‚ because Helen was taken by Paris‚ the Achaeans demanded to take her back Premium 490 Words 2 Pages Helen of Troy The movie Helen of Troy shows the important details before and inside the book Iliad. The movie helps us

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    Helen of Troy (Movie Review) CAST: Sienna Guillory-----> Helen Matthew Marsden---->Paris Rufus Sewell---->Agamemnon Stellan Skarsgard----> Theseus John Rhys-Davies---->King Priam of Troy Maryam d’Abo---->Queen Hecuba Emilia Fox---->Cassandra James Callis----->Menelaus Daniel Lapaine---->Hector Nigel Whitmey---->Odysseus Joe Montana---->Achilles     Helen of Troy is going to polarise audiences. As with any film based on a well-known work‚ there are

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    Here is a list of differences that I gave between the Iliad and the movie "Troy" from a past question: The movie was only inspired by Homer’s Iliad‚ not a completely accurate depiction of what he wrote. The movie script took many liberties with the poem and the characters. Here are some differences between the movie and the poem: - Homer’s Iliad was greatly influenced by the gods. In the movie "Troy" the gods played no role in events that took place.  - In the movie Hector kills Menelaus

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    sense of nationalism and determination uncommon in many other cultures. The greater good of Rome was always put before individual desires. This was not an idea forced onto the people of the time‚ it was something ingrained in Roman culture. At the fall of Troy Aeneas‚ the son of Venus‚ was instructed to go and found a new empire. His destiny could not be stopped by romance or even his own family. Aeneas was fated to not only found Rome‚ but bring values to the soon-to-be empire. As the city around

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    while her husband Troy‚ presents the theme of betrayal and is tearing their family apart. While all of these over line themes are incorporated in the book‚ betrayal is the one that Wilson expresses the most. Rose was always nagging Troy to build the fence and he never really understood why she wanted it.”Go on‚ Troy! You / supposed to be putting up this fence” (1.3.980). The fence for Rose meant security. It would be an easier way for her to keep her family together‚ especially Troy and Cory. Even

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    August Wilson’s play “Fences”‚ he presents a misguided yet accomplished character. The play’s protagonist Troy‚ creates conflict with every character because of his judgmental nature and contrived haughty perception of himself. Through numerous stories that he re-cants Troy embellishes his experiences to cast himself in a righteous light. Contrary‚ to the stories he tells‚ his behavior expose Troy as a foolish man that does irrational things. One moment he is lecturing his family members on how they

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    Major Differences between the Homer’s Iliad and the film Troy. It is very apparent that the film Troy‚ directed by Wolfgang Peterson‚ has been heavily influenced by the epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ a work commonly credited to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. Both the film and the poem have the same overall plots‚ such as the siege of Troy by the Greeks‚ the feud between the warrior Achilles and the king Agamemnon‚ and these events being triggered due to the Trojan prince Paris “stealing” Helen of Sparta

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