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Helen and Andromache
According to our classic knowledge; there are lots of types of women and men. If we degrade those types of woman characteristics to number of two there will be in our pocket the woman who is struggle for her family and diabolic woman characteristic. In Trojan War first characteristic is more suitable for the Andromache and the second characteristic is for the Helene.
All the Trojan War occurred because of Helene and Paris’s love fault. In this situation Helene represents the woman’s passionate characteristic who leads men to the wrong ways. Helene associated with the devil side of the women. In my perspective; Helene wants Paris to get into the war for only her own honor because, if Paris does not get into the war, all the people will say that “Helene look at your coward husband, he did not take risk for you at the battle field”. On the other hand Helene said that all the war occurred because of her. When talking with Hector she told that “I wish all the happened things did not happened”. She did not realistic in this situation because when they escaped from her husband’s country they know what will be their action’s results so her words are not realistic. Her words were like shrive. She felt guilty herself so wanted to relieve herself. Furthermore, Helene cheated his ex-husband with Paris. Even if she has a daughter from the Menelaus she did not avoid cheat him with Paris.
On the other hand Andromache represents the intelligence side of the women. Classic family women role suits for the Andromache. When the hector came to the near of the Andromache, she did not spoke about the honor because there is no honor for the Hector in that war. His only notion was protecting his country from the enemies. Andromache did not want his husband to get into war because she afraid from the results of the war on her family. However she knows that Hector has to get into the war, because if they lose the war there will not be any place for them to live as a family. She knows

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