Warfare an Intoxication Inferno
The Iliad
Anger has always been the downfall of humanity. For generations man, had fought in war for many reasons, some claiming to be their rights. What right does any man has sent innocent people to their death? Anger has brought men to make careless decisions without caring for the consequences of their action, even giving their back to their own people. Men that fought courageously for their country, but no one will ever know their name. So many countless tears mothers have cried for their fallen loved ones. Many innocent lives lost because of selfishness and greed. In the Iliad, Homer’s descries the moment when brave warriors enter the battlefield and hey yell the cry of war, the same cry that men …show more content…
In some countries, people do not have the freedom to choose their own path. Many people live in places with so much conflict and destruction that they are forced to follow the orders of a political lieder and force to make decision that are not in accordance to what they believe, but they do it because they are loyal to their country, family and friends. Pauline M. Kaurin provides a scenario of a soldier killing civilian people that they confused with a suicide bomber, then she asked, “When is killing murder and when is it a legitimate act of war? Whom can one legitimately kill in war (Kaurin 41)?” She argues that during combat distinction from the enemy and civilian should be relevant to preserve the essence of true morality. In the contrast to Achilles the essence of true morality is irrelevant when he claims that no Trojan should keep their life, he swore death to all Trojan (Homer bk XXI). During the war, is important to accept the fact of the situation and accept the consequence. Having faith and believing in that faith is what a person need to continue living and accepting the consequence of their …show more content…
Who is the winner of the war, when so many lives had been lost? Not just life is being lost, many soldiers return home heroes or in dishonor. As described by Lawrence A. Tritle, the experience of war, culture and survival is the same during the Greek society and todays wars. “The idea of heroic virtue, however, is by no means limited to ancient times. The Idealized nature of heroic conduct continues onto the present, in the form of the expected Courage Under Fire, as the recent Hollywood film puts it, and the corresponding shame of not meeting this standard-of playing the part of the coward (Tritle 35).” Today’s heroes just like the Heroes of Homer and the Greek era believed that to be brave you must create bravery in the mind signifying you are the best. A fearless man believes that no one or nothing can get in the way of their quest. For to fail is to bring shame to oneself, family and society. To fight a battle people, develop courage it does not matter where it comes from, what matter that it is