The reading “The Aeneid Book 1”, is a very interesting poem of Aeneas. He belongs to Troy, after the Trojan war the city is destroyed and therefore he is in the journey to find another land. Homer’s poems always start with the influence of muse, but in Aeneid he waits and starts with himself then continues to call muse. This was very different for me because all of his reading till now, have always started with muse’s influence. The gods in this poem seemed to play more roles rather than the main character. In my opinion, Juno the goddess has shown too much anger towards Aeneas throughout Book 1. The Prophecy is believed to be true and at the end no matter what the fate always wins. In the poem we can clearly see that even though the gods try to change the fate even they can’t do anything. It was really amazing to experience the journey of Aeneas, even though he struggled and received so much problems from the gods at the end he got what his fate had for him.
Always the main character has their fate and the gods or the situations affects them, tries to manipulate or weaken them, but they do get what was written in their fate. I feel this very surprising because no matter what the gods or the man tries to do they can’t change fate, so why not just accept their fate and go with it. If they knew they have a bad fate like Oedipus he could have just taken his life after he knew the Prophecy. But again thats his fate so he can’t change it even though he tried, its a little confusing but I think he could have taken his life rather than suffering so much. Moral of the poem: Fate always Wins.
I think you are confused. The poem is by Virgil not Homer. Even though the gods can not change the fate of the mortal, they do try and help them in any way they can. Other than that, I like how you gave Oedipus as an example to prove your moral.