Achilles Tragic Hero Essay

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I will be trying to explain what it's like to be counted as a true hero. We all ponder, what makes a true hero. All tragic heroes experience a physical or spiritual wound. How the hero ended up smart and learned from his mistakes, what his weakness were, and how he had to make a big decision that could have cost him his own life. I predict that you will learn how Achilles, Hector, Beowulf, and Hamlet are considered as heroes.
All heroes have weaknesses that brings them to fail. Achilles weakness all started when born. His mother dipped him in the river Styx so no one could harm him. Achilles returned to Troy after Hector’s funeral to exact further revenge for Patroclus death. Later, a poisoned arrow, guided by Apollo, pierces Achilles’ foot. If he got dipped all the way into the river Styx he would have survived that poisoned arrow. Like Achilles, …show more content…

Many of these heroes went through the same thing, but in a more tragic way. Achilles was spiritually hurt by his friends. Achilles chose not to fight in the Trojan war that much, but he gave his armor to his friend Patroclus to pretend to be their Achilles. The plain went well until Apollo went searching to find and kill Patroclus to take out revenge. King Hector’s wish for Patroclus to be dead. Once Patroclus’s death Achilles went back to Troy to Kill Hector. This shows that Achilles was spiritually wounded because someone killed his best friend. Hector experienced both physical and spiritual hurt. When Hector stood against the wall trying to figure out if he should walk back into the city with shame and live with his family, or stand up and fight and die as a true hero. Beowulf fighting Grendel became his trial and being killed was his own punishment. Hamlet went through his father’s death which became his major trial. His punishment for this trail came to be the death of many people he cared for and the only woman he truly

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