Queen Dido's Emotions In The Aeneid By Virgil

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In a typical day, we see love and heartbreak, trust and betrayal happening right before our eyes. The author of the Aeneid, Virgil, uses the love life of Queen Dido and her 2nd husband Aeneas to show his view of human nature. The things listed earlier are things found in the story. I will be talking about how strong emotions like love, trust , betrayal, and heartbreak can drive human beings to do thing that they never would have imagined.
The first two emotions are love and trust. Depending on who you are, you might think that love and trust are important, but this is not what this essay is about. I'm here to explain how love and trust along with other things wrecking Queen Dido’s life. After Queen Dido’s first husband died, she swore to herself that she would never love or marry another man. Queen Dido tells her sister; ‘Of Erebus and the deep world of night! That man who took me to himself in youth Has taken all my love; may that man keep it , Hold it forever with him in the tomb’ (35-38). …show more content…

If she were to marry a man named Aeneas. She completes rituals and other things to bring her good luck with herself, her kingdom, and her love life. In the beginning she just wanted impress him so she could marry him, for the kingdom’s well-being. The Queen shows him her Sidonian wealth, throws him a banquet, and goes star gazing with him. While she was doing all of this, she starts to fall in love and trust him. In the story Vigil writes, “ She thought no longer of a secret love /But called it a marriage. Thus, under that name, / She hid her fault.” (IV 225-227). By this point Dido trusts Aeneas with her life and thinks that there will be a happy future ahead for

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