Iliad

The Iliad was written long ago about 725 B.C. but it is still being read and analyzed over and over again until this very day. Themes are the most important and often universal ideas explored in a literary work; the Iliad revolves around several major themes. It stresses on war and peace, the heroic code, anger and responsibility, and mortals and immortals. When reading the Iliad we are able to recognize and relate to the experiences of the different characters and learn from them.

Homer did a great job of showing the realities of war in the Iliad. Men would die gruesome deaths getting their head chopped off or their limbs ripped apart. A plague broke out in the Achaean camp and destroyed the army. Even the strongest warriors occasionally experienced fear in the poem. The brutal images that Homer brings to our minds can still be seen in present times. Men have not stopped killing each other and there’s still war going on between other countries.

Many people die for no good r...