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Trojan War: Helen
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The soul of “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place!” was its acting. Convincingly ditzy and self-involved, Geraldine K. Prasuhn ’09 brought a vapid Helen to life. As her foil, the war-weary Hector, Christopher J. Carothers ’11 embodied the disillusionment and despair that Giraudoux associates with war. Carothers infused his character with just the right combination of masculine pride and unwavering dedication to family. The stark contrast between Carothers and Prasuhn spoke to the struggle between the themes of fate and free will that dominated the play.
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According to the Iliad, the Trojan War was about the return of Helen, an Argive woman, to her legitimate husband, Menelaus, an Akhaian lord. However, be this as it may, the success of a Danaan onslaught on Trojan territory seems to have been due not so much to its enormous numerical supremacy, but, rather, to a Trojan front fraught with the weaknes of internal dissention: an elite Trojan political and social hegemony, of nordic ("Pelasgian") stock superimposed—over a lengthy period, perhaps several centuries—on a number of autochthonous tribes.
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In the war, Paris was the best archer in the Trojan forces, though his records were unimpressive; he managed to wound Diomedes. After ten years of war, many Trojan would have gladly return Helen to the Menelaüs, but each time, Paris refused, with his father support. During the single combat between Paris and Menelaüs, Aphrodite spirited him away when his life was in danger. Paris only claim to glory was killing Achilles, the arrow guided by Apollo to pierce his only weakness, his heel.
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Homer first wrote of the Trojan war in The Iliad, a story filled with enduring characters: Helen, Paris, Achilles, Hector and Odysseus, to name but a few. And it ends with one of the great misdirection moves in the annals of martial affairs.
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Unfortunately, Paris, a young Trojan warrior, knew nothing of the vow. The minute he and Helen saw each other, they fell in love and risked everything to be together, sparking ancient history's greatest war.
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