Author’s Note: In this
piece I will explain the modern version of the Trojan war and the original text
and what the differences and similarities in both of the stories. Also, why
they made the changes in the modern version.
Back during the
Trojan War it was much more serious than the modern version of the Trojan War
story. Not only it was serious but they also had some parts in it that made it
seem to be more of a fictional story. In the original story they mainly focused
on how the Greeks left this huge horse on the Trojans land as a gift but they
didn’t know what it was and were upset by it “Let’s poke this wretched Greek
spy with our bronze Spears until he tells us what this Greek gift is all
about!”they were really upset by .
Since they made the original
more serious they made the characters in the modern story like how some of the
characters are in the movies are today. In the modern version Ares wanted to
have a war but instead of having a real war they would play war and pick out
people to be on their team. All of the characters in the modern text were the kind of people
that you would see in the movie. For example Hera was the they type of girl that
would be a housewife and having the husband doing all the work and the things
she would say about him ”Where'd my good for nothing husband run off to?” they
never really had a good connection. And there are many people today that can
relate that Hera position is in the modern
text. I feel like they made the changes because they wanted to show how they
characters would act if they were going to be in today’s society and see what
person would be the what character and make it more entertaining for the
readers In the original version she was very powerful and people would give her
a lot of respect.
Even though they made some changes to make it more modern,
one thing that stayed the same in both of the version is how they both were be
upset at each other and the only option to get over this was violence. Even
though in the modern version they were just playing a game they still wanted to
go against each and have a battle. I think that they made a good remake from
the original because they made it as it were a movie and added type of
characters that movies would typically have. And even though they made up more
things to make more modern I feel like it still is true to the original because
it still has the whole main idea of why they were upset and wanted to fight but
just in a more modern way.
