Sympathy for Aeneas
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- Sympathy for Aeneas
- Sympathetic
- Roman Audience
- Dido curses him and his future generations
- Controls his emotions and pain - 'struggled to fight down the anguish in his heart.'
- Shows self-control
- Sacrifices himself to fate and duty towards his son. Slave of fate, has to follow advice
- 'with many a groan and with a heart shaken by his great love, he nevertheless carried out the commands of the gods'
- Oak tree simile - the roots are his duty, the leaves are his love for Dido, the wind is Dido's passion and love.
- 'his mind remained unmoved and the tears rolled in vain'
- Hes an exile
- Anger of Juno
- We meet Aeneas as he is suffering
- He's pious - no need for his suffering, should not be punished for this
- used by Goddess - not his fault that Dido suffers as a result
- Modern Audience
- He stays with her for a year, gives affection and cares for her.
- Wants to console Dido and 'take away her pain'
- Isolated by his suffering; 'he showed them the face of hope and kept his misery deep in his heart'
- Aeneas has already lost one love, Creusa, he loses Dido swell
- Aeneas = 'against my will that i left your shore'
- Roman Audience
- Not sympathetic
- Roman Audience
- Neglects his duty, stays with her for a year and dresses like a Carthaginian.
- 'without a thought for the cities granted to him by the Fates'
- Could associate Aeneas with Mark Anthony. Reminds of Anthony's betrayal.
- Not honourable to Dido. Disregards her feelings.
- King Iarbus labels Aeneas a 'second Paris' reminds the Roman reader of their defeat at Troy and the cause of it.
- First impression of him, he seems quite weak
- 'groaning'
- 'his limbs went weak'
- Neglects his duty, stays with her for a year and dresses like a Carthaginian.
- Modern Audience
- Goes behind Dido's back as he prepares to leave, prepares the ships. Dido finds out through rumour and is heartbroken .
- A cowardly act
- Detaches himself from her as she begs him to stay 'never be sorry to remember Dido while I remember myself'
- 'my first concern would be to tend the city of Troy, those of my dear people who survived' = cold hearted, insensitive to her feelings.
- 'No griefs moved Aeneas' = heartless
- Unheroic first impression - 'groaning' , 'his limbs went weak'
- Goes behind Dido's back as he prepares to leave, prepares the ships. Dido finds out through rumour and is heartbroken .
- Roman Audience
- Sympathetic
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