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It is his view of Hector that Achilles must wrestle with if he is to achieve any peace of mind. Do you agree?
In a revisit to the Iliad in the novel “Ransom”, Malouf predominantly explores on the intricacies of the journey that Priam made to retrieve Hector’s body, whilst Malouf also reflecting on Achilles’s emotional cataclysm following by the Patroclus’s death. Though Malouf mainly focuses on the relationship between the king Priam and the runner Achilles, however, there is also an emphasis on the relationship between Hector and Achilles. The Gods used Hector as a tool to mock Achilles, and Hector himself is also being used in reminding Achilles that he is also a father.- his role as father, not as a warrior. Through humiliating Hector’s body, Achilles still wasn’t able to free himself from his ”endlessness rage” and despair that he had endured since his “soul mate” death. In order to achieve his peace in mind, an alternative route must be established; Malouf used Hector to provide a paternal link between Achilles and Priam, which the readers could see while Priam eventually comes to Achilles, that results in the liberation of Achilles from his rage and grief, and ultimately found a peace of mind.
After so many years that the Trojans had fought with the Greeks, Achilles killed so many of Priam’s sons and significantly killed Hector too. Malouf significantly highlights the importance of Hector’s death because it linked to the mortal side in Achilles, which he had turned into an extreme condition that nobody would want to go near him, not even his myrmidons. When Achilles first met Hector on the battlefield, he was reminded of his beloved “soul mate” Patroclus, which propelled Achilles to the outrageous action of killing Hector. Achilles thought it would rest both his soul and Patroclus’s one; however, it became worst and ultimately filled Achilles with anger and grief. Every day when Achilles began his ritual of dragging Hector’s body under the Troy’s wall, he was met with the mocking message from the God- the full restoration of Hector’s body. This foreshadows the flaws and the unatoned sins that Achilles made would never be restored unless he attempted “something new, something that had never been done before”. The Gods mockingly disapprove Achilles’s action through their use of Hector’s body, his defacing of Hector’s body would never allow him to become at peace.
Achilles ultimately found at peace in the end of the novel. He found the true Achilles through Priam’s visit, by using Hector’s ransom; Malouf linked them into the sense of being fathers and mortal men. Partnering with “the simple carter” Somax, Priam went into the Greek’s camp and offered the ransom to Achilles, this is the real event that allowed Achilles to finally be at peace with his “corrupted” emotions. Hector was as a tool by the Gods all through the novel. Through the discussion with Priam, Achilles implausibly found the commonality between Hector and his son-Neoptolemus. Paternal Love is also an important element in the novel; Malouf intentionally picked it up and emphasized it through the protagonists. It created empathy for Achilles of being a father, not just a warrior. The Gods successfully used Hector as a tool, it caused Achilles to accept the ransom and not only releasing Hector’s body, but the “endlessness rage” too “something being released”. Eventually, Malouf manifested that as a warrior, Achilles was able to allow Priam and Troy to have a rest to mourn for Hector, and himself had finally achieved at peace.
Through the novel “Ransom” Malouf shows Hector was essential to the centre ideas, understanding and liberation of Achilles’s rage and despair. Hector was the one that exasperated Achilles to his initial rage, however, ironically that he was also the one that allowed Achilles to understand the paternal love and finally found at peace. Nevertheless, through Priam’s painful reminding of Achilles’s son- Netoptolemus, it gave Achilles the crucial role of a paternal link to both Protagonists. Malouf depicts a world of love, especially the paternal love in the novel, which moulds Achilles in his rage and grief that ultimately “break the spell” that was on him since his love’s death and found him at peace.
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