“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
A love so pure and unadulterated that you will be compelled to open yourself to a new horizon, this bright world of hope and love. Prepare yourself for this full spectrum of emotions where your heart will leap out of joy and at times gut-wrenching sobs will escape your mouth. An unforgettable experience wherein no matter what your beliefs are you will accept that “true love does exist.”
Introduction
Book – Song Of Achilles
Authors– Madeline Miller
Genre – Romance/Historical fiction
Language – English
Spoiler Alert!
Achilles the best of all the Greek champions, the legend of the Trojan conflict was the child of nereid Thetis and Peleus, ruler of Pythia. It retells the account of Greek's most noteworthy saint from the mark of his companion, wartime friend, and sweetheart Patroclus. Through the eyes of Patroclus, we saw everything and could feel the wave of each feeling.
The feelings painted by him were crude and striking. He was banished and shipped off Pythia at ten years old to be cultivated there in return for his weight in gold and be raised to masculinity. While Achilles was solid, quick, shocking, and enticing Patroclus was his inverse, an abnormal, banished ruler. They were united by destiny and fortified together by affection.
Thetis being an ocean goddess despised humans. She once sees Patroclus kissing Achilles and doesn't think about Patroclus as a reasonable friend so she sends Achilles to dominate Chiron. In any case, Patroclus follows and they spend their young years under ace Chiron's tutelage at Mount Pelion being prepared in medication, war and there they become darlings.
Helen was kidnapped by Prince Paris of Troy thus ruler Agamemnon sibling of Menelaus who was her significant other plans a conflict against Troy. Thetis was told a prescience connecting with Achilles' life. Thus, to hold Achilles back from doing battle, Thetis conceals Achilles away on the island of Syros and camouflages him as a young lady while simultaneously making him lay down with lord Lycomedes' little girl who becomes pregnant with his kid.
Odysseus finds Achilles and lets him know that assuming he doesn't go to the conflict, he will carry on with his life as Lycomedes and keep on becoming old and wilt away along these lines putting down his wonder for eternity. Achilles consents to battle and Patroclus goes with him. Achilles tries not to kill Hector, child of Priam and Troy's most noteworthy champion as there was a prediction that Achilles will pass on at Troy however not before Hector, bites the dust.
At a certain point, Patroclus requests that Achilles guarantee a caught young lady Briseis as a conflict prize to secure her. Nine years into the Trojan conflict, there is an occurrence where ruler Agamemnon guarantees the little girl of an esteemed cleric and won't bring her back. It enrages God Apollo who sends a plague and many individuals get impacted by it.
At the point when Agamemnon is told by Achilles to return the young lady to stop the plague, he requests Briseis consequently which shows incredible irreverence towards Achilles and he chooses not to battle in the conflict any longer. Achilles plots with his mom to have Zeus power the Greeks to lose gravely so they could understand his significance and Agamemnon will come asking for his absolution.
At the point when the Greeks are losing gravely, others attempt to haggle with Achilles yet he requests a statement of regret. The Trojans before the long assault the camp and paying attention to individuals impugning their advantage in Achilles, Patroclus accompanies an arrangement to save Achilles' everlasting wonder.
He chooses to take on the appearance of Achilles so he should be visible as aiding in the conflict while as yet having the option to make a highlight Agamemnon. Notwithstanding, Patroclus is killed by the hector.
To retaliate for Patroclus Achilles joins the front line and kills Hector. Later Achilles gets killed as was prophesized, by Paris. Achilles' 12-year-old child joins the battle and requests that Achilles' burial place be for himself and not Patroclus because of which Patroclus couldn't enter the hidden world. Patroclus' spirit searches out Thetis and offers his memory of Achilles with her. Thetis, at last, gives him an entombment marker, and Patroclus and Achilles are brought together in the hidden world.
About The Author
Madeline Miller grew up in Philadelphia, has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Latin and Ancient Greek from brown university, and has been teaching both languages. She has also studied at the yale school of drama, specializing in adapting classical tales for a modern audience. She lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. The Song of Achilles is her first novel.
Self Analysis
Love is far greater and bigger than any human-made paradigm. It does not differentiate; it does not falter. The story of Achilles and Patroclus is a story of love that cannot be terrorized and that cannot be bound.
Achilles cherished Patroclus above anything and any other person. His demise destroyed him and ingrained in him the inclination to deliver retribution and no god could intercede in it. A delightful story of pride, wonder, disdain, war, and love will entrance you.
Famous Quotes
"In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way, his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
Bottom Line
Love transcends death and Achilles and Patroclus conquer every challenge laid in front of them. When Patroclus says "I am made of memories". It struck a chord in the strings of my heart because, in the end, we are all just memories.
My ratings for the book - 5 on 5
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