In The Book of The City of Ladies, there are many of female characters are appeared. As Lady Reason persuades Christine, the characters are very brave, intelligent, and tough. For example of the Queen Semiramis in Book 1,
One time, Semiramis was sitting in her room surrounded by her land-maidens,
who were busy combing her hair, …She Jumps immediately and swore on her
kingdom that the half of her hair which had not yet been plaited would remain
loose until she could avenge this outrage and take country back into her control.
In fact, usually during the time that Christine actually wrote this book, women were supposed to be LADY figures that always are neat and nice especially in higher rank society. However, Queen Semiramis did not care about her appearance and took care of her kingdom(we should say queendom).

Each of the female heroes were giving answer to Christine’s dilemma that why the world looks down on female, and all of the information(books) informs about female as God’s imperfect creation. So the Amazon Queens were enough to compare to the great kings or even braver than them. One particular example of Nicpstrata, who invented Latin alphabet ABC and various types of science. This particular character is giving a big answer to Christine that women are intelligent.

She gave this knowledge and this alphabet to the people, in the hope that they would            become universally known. It was truly no small or insignificant branch of knowledge            that this lady invented, nor should she receive only paltry thanks for it.

So, after her invention of new branches of learning, now the descendants of her, could learn about Christianity and science that men’s job to do as men thought.

The ineluctable fate is well known in most of literature.

In this old text, The Iliad written by Homer also addresses the particular topic.

In the book Ⅸ, Achilles refuses to re-join the war between Greek and Trojan due to several reasons and he does not want to fight for the glory and honor of being a Greek. Therefore, he had no reason to fight with the Trojan.  Moreover, Achilles knows that he would face his dark death which is his fate if he participate the war. Therefore, he refuses to re-join the war against his own fate.

In addition Achilles underestimates Hector’s honor which is his priority of war. Achilles assumes that “Hector wouldn’t come out farther from his wall than the oak tree by the Western Gate.”(Homer Ⅸ. 363-364).     As the result of Achilles’ absence in the war and underestimation of Hector, Achilles’ beloved friend Patroclus faces his death by Hector who is fighting for his glory and honor, so Achilles re-joins the war with his rage which is the reason of participating his last war and dies.

Hector also knows that he would face death if he defeats Patroclus because the greatest hero, Achilles would chase him down. However, he did not deny his fate even after his parents’ persuasion.  “Now what? If I take cover inside, …. I’ll be much better off facing Achilles, either killing him or dying honorably before the city.”(Homer. XXII. 115-125). At the end of his fight, he is defeated by furious Achilles.

The two heroic characters face their fates differently. Hector chooses to die for his honor and reputation while Achilles choose to fight for Patroclus.  Achilles seems like he is a individualist and selfish because he only cares about his own personal life and feeling towards the war and Hector seems more heroic to the public in Iliad.