From: Andrew Lorimer <andrew@lorimer.id.au>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 02:03:51 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: [english] personification
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[english] personification
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 - Poseidon & Athene destroy Greece with help from Zeus
 - Invasion depiction - p.26
 
+
+- Greeks killed astyanax irrationally
+- Women accept their role as slaves
+
 ## Quotes
 
 > “The lucky ones are dead” - slug-emdez- NUTZZZZ
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 > “After so many sorrows, and in such despair, words mean nothing”
 
+> "muh slavery"
+
+## Personification
+
+### Hecuba
+
+Complains, representing elderly, voice of Women of Troy. Wise.  
+Personifies Troy. Persistence/hope.
+
+### Cassandra
+
+Revenge, irrationality
+
+### Andromache
+
+she ded
+
+---
+
+### Chorus
+
+Represents pain, magnitude of people. Represents Women of Troy (society). Pleads to Ancient Greeks.  
+Effectively narrator (background info etc). Gives more context than Hecuba.
+
+### Talthybius
+
+Brutality, power. Self-serving. Analogy with Auschwitz.  
+Conflicted interests - doesn't want to be evil (empathises with women). However, it is his duty to Greeks.
+
+### Menelaus
+
+Power, selfishness, arrogance.  
+Blind to his flaws (perhaps naive).
+
+### Helen
+
+Imprisonment. Manipulative. Self-serving.