Natalie Wilson

What Is Your Plea?       What is your plea? Guilty, not guilty, or insane? In today's society, this is the most important question in our criminal justice system. This is the question that determines your fate.(fate not capitalized for once) This also happens to be one of the greatest questions to be asked in The Oresteia. The character who is on trial is King Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra. Queen Clytemnestra does multiple things throughout the course of the book that can be considered controversial. First, she has an affair with her husband's cousin. Next, she kills her husband and his lover. The answer to the question is all up to how you interpret the book and relate to Clytemnestra.         There are a number of examples that show Clytemnestra should plead guilty. The example that stands out to me the most is found in the book of Agamemnon. As Clytemnestra tries to explain her reasoning for murdering her husband, she admits she had help and w...

Kids at Heart Kids argue. Kids cry.  Kids hold grudges. When you think of a kid you don't necessarily think of Roman Gods. However, in Virgil's The Aeneid, they do just that. They argue. They cry. They hold grudges. You'd think since they are gods they would have a more developed maturity level than a five-year-old. While the gods are powerful beings and looked up to as superior to humans, they are not as eloquent as they lead their followers to believe because they are very petty,  and they interfere in the fate of the humans for their own selfish reasons. Humans tend to be very emotional, impulsive, and passionate creatures. Although the gods in The Aeneid are regarded to be "better" than mortals,  there happen to be multiple instances of the gods making the same rash decisions as humans. For example, Virgil writes in book one, "No, not even now would the causes of her rage, her bitter sorrows drop from the goddess' mind. They festered deep wi...