The War for Honor

As I started to read chapter 22, I had a hard time understanding what was going on. But, as I kept reading, I began to understand more the myth. Chapters 22 and 23 were about Troy, The Trojan War, The Trojan Horse...etc. When I began reading, I thought of the story. About Paris and Helen, then how Menelaus got jealous, and went to Troy. About Aquelles, Ullises, and Hector, very important heroes in the story of Troy and in Greek Mythology. But, as I read I started to think about more things than just the story, I thought about jealousy, and unloyalty, which caused a war. Because of Helen's unloyalty to king Menelaus, she ran away with pronce Paris. And then Menelaus jealousy and anger due to Helen's unloyalty, made him askhis brother Agamenmon help to start a war with Troy. After reading this, I thought of how human emotions can lead people to do horrible things such as war. Many innocent people's life was taken away in the war, just because the rulers decided to fight.
"Paris, aided by Venus, persuaded her to elope with him, and carried her to Troy, whence arose the famous Trojan war,..."-chapter 22, letter a.
This quote made me think on how unfair it is for regular people in life sometimes. For example in Troy, many people died in the Trojan War. And the cause according to Greek Mythology of this war, was Helen's unloyalty to King Menelaus with Paris, and his jealousy and anger, his human feeling of revenge, made him go to Troy and start a war in which many innocent people were victims of. This also made me think about human feelings, the way the pervade someone's mind, and make that person make terrible decisions. After finishing reading both chapters, I realized that we humans have to control more our emotions. This is because without noticing, we can later cause great devastations, just by a making a decision using our emotions.