Rachel's Road to Truth

 Faithful Fate              As the story of The Aeneid comes to an end, readers are left wondering why the book even matters in the first place. With a rather abrupt ending to the story readers are left with an incomplete feeling, as we aren’t given the resolution we had hoped for. Instead of a happy ending where all of our characters receive closer, we are left with Aeneas in battle, and we are left with a cliffhanger ending. This ending leaves the question, what is the point of this book? The point of this book was to teach readers to be loyal, faithful, and trust that it will work out for us all in the end, no matter how terrible our situation seems.         Aeneas is the main character of this story, and he is a very devout man. He is very loyal to his gods, and he does what they want from him even when it is hard for him. Aeneas leaves queen Dido when the fates tell him to, and in return the fates help him leave. “Heaven...

 Heroes vs Villains         In Virgil’s The Aeneid, we see the story of Achilles’ enemy Aeneas unfold after he is forced to leave his beloved city of Troy. Juno, the queen of the gods,  will stop at nothing to destroy the Trojan race, as they are fated to destroy her favorite people, Carthage. As the story continues, we see exactly what Juno is doing to keep her land in power, and while readers might interpret Juno as a “bad” god, we can also see how Juno and Aeneas are alike and how they differ. Enough evidence in the text suggests that Aeneas and Juno are not all that different, with some common characteristics, and neither one is a villain or a hero.              Juno is the queen of the gods, and she is also the wife to Jove, the king of the gods. In the very first book of The Aeneid, we see that Juno favors the land of Carthage and does all in her power to keep Carthage a strong nation, as Carthage is her favorite ...