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The Aeneid In Today's Society Research Paper

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The Aeneid and Today’s World
The epic story The Aeneid is very relevant in the year of 2016. The reason that it’s relevant is because it shows many similarities in today’s society. Some similarities that link this epic story to today’s society is the surprises attack on the Trojans. The attacks on the Trojans relate is related to the terror attacks we have in this world today. Another similar and relevant topic in the story is the fight between good vs evil. The last relevant topic is the belief in a higher being. All three of these topics are relevant to today’s society as they show that the world today is much like the world in The Aeneid.
In the story Aeneid, the Trojan warriors are defeated and are forced to leave their land. They were defeated by a surprise attack by the …show more content…

It shows that terrorism existed back then and is still occurring in history and today. By seeing all of this terror in the world makes one question if there will be a such thing as peace in this world? The world believes that the only way to stop terror is to fight terror. That maybe true but the problem is that fighting violence with violence will only lead another group to display more violence. Just by looking at The Aeneid story and the recent history of terror revels that fight isn’t getting us anywhere.
Violence will just lead to more violence as history shows. Vengeance is one reason on why we use violence to fight terrorism. Vengeance is a relevant theme that plays in the story of The Aeneid. It’s relevant because again it can be seen in our society. Vengeance is seen when Aeneas was about to let Turnus go but because of what Turnus did to Pallas, Aeneas decided to get revenge and kill Turnus instead. That same theme can be seen with America raging war against the Japanese for the Pearl Harbor attack or raging war against Al- Qaeda for

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