Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Project Chapter 1: King Agamemnon's Stubbornness of Heart..


The King of Mycenae, the king with great disgrace

A first example would be when Agamemnon not honored Chryses,  Agamemnon wouldn't give back Chryseis when asked. And when he was in a position where he had to give back Chryseis, he said he wanted to take Achilles' prize, Briseis. This shows how gluttonous Agamemnon is because he has no right to take Achilles' prize just because something came up and he had to lose his. Also, Agamemnon is always wanting something and expecting something, thinking that he is the best of the Achaians. Because of this, Apollo started the plague on the Achaians. Many of them died only because of Agamemnon's morally unacceptable ways. 

Another example is his indignity would be that after the plague started, Agamemnon  seemed like he didn't want his fellow Achaians to know why it happened. After he made the mistake of letting the plague happen, he should of have at least let them know, but it had to be said by Kalchas, because Achilles made a deal with him. When Kalchas told everyone the truth, Agamemnon was furious, when he should have been the one telling them first. 


Why Didn't Nazi win in World War 2??


I think, it was the personality of Adolf Hitler,  after the disaster of World War 1, and the failure of the new German democratic republic, he wanted to "get his own back" or take his revenge in Europe as soon as possible. In Mein Kampf, you can see that he wanted re-unification of Germany to include Prussia, Pomerania, the Sudetenland and parts of Austria. Such a re-unification would have been possible in time, in the same way that the original formation of Germany.

Hitler's haste, and his anger, brought about the failure of the third Reich. He is a case study of the perils of leadership based on anger, revenge, hatred and impatience. These Hitler combined appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public.