3. Wars do not only claim many lives but also spoil/destroy a man's character. Do you agree with this statement? Cite details from the book to prove your answer.
In my opinion this statement is true but not entirely. Yes war has more of a destructive effect than it has a constructive one, but we can not say that it can only bring suffering and destruction. Yet still amid all the chaos it still can bear fruit to something good. Good, because in war we could see the things that we had done wrong that caused the war. In war we would be able to realize ones capacity to do something bad. We would be able to see the obscure and criminally insane tendency of the human capacity because of vengeance, wrath, anger, greed, lust, pride, and a lot more. In war we could see the ugly truth of the human nature, and how it can traumatize other people. Yet because of all this madness, discord, and darkness, we would be able to change for the better, because even with all of man’s ill-naturedness the only thing that is certain is man’s capacity to change for the better. We could say that because mankind have experienced war that they desperately thrive to prevent it from happening again.
In the Iliad, the person that I saw that changed for the better was King Agamemnon. He changed because of having so many men die in the war and was at the verge of being defeated. He change in a way that he was able to realize that his greed has given him this ill-fate right in front of him. He was able to realize the bad thing that he did to Achilles. He was able to realize that he will not be able to win without the help of Achilles. Lastly, because of all this King Agamemnon gave peace offerings to Achilles to appease Achilles.
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