Aeneas, despite his standing as one of the greatest Trojan warriors and as an exceptional leader, suffers from personal blindness. This blindness inhibits Aeneas’ ability to clearly see situations and therefore causes him to act irrationally. It can be deducted, though, that Aeneas was acting solely as a proxy of Pallas and therefore not responsible for his actions. The idea of Aeneas killing Turnus as a proxy is very unbelievable though, because he had a history of misconceiving situations through his blindness and consequentially acting irrationally. There are several points in Virgil’s epic poem where Aeneas fully displays his blindness which creates a conflict of morals for the
Aeneas, despite his standing as one of the greatest Trojan warriors and as an exceptional leader, suffers from personal blindness. This blindness inhibits Aeneas’ ability to clearly see situations and therefore causes him to act irrationally. It can be deducted, though, that Aeneas was acting solely as a proxy of Pallas and therefore not responsible for his actions. The idea of Aeneas killing Turnus as a proxy is very unbelievable though, because he had a history of misconceiving situations through his blindness and consequentially acting irrationally. There are several points in Virgil’s epic poem where Aeneas fully displays his blindness which creates a conflict of morals for the