Throughout the Iliad many things in war are compared to
normal everyday life with a smile, but the only place where you are not on the
battlefield is the passage where Hephaestus makes Achilles armor. What the smiles do throughout the novel is
illustrate how the world that the Achaeans left behind and the world that is
not visible in times of war. While the shield
illustrates the whole universe as two worlds (the city at war and the city at
peace). Essentially the shield is a big
metaphor which is to help relieve the reader (or viewer) because the scene
before which was the death of Patroclus.
Though as pointed out by many scholars it brings the world that the
Achaeans left behind and the war that they are fighting in now, it is because
they are two completely different places where one is peaceful and the other is
a savage battlegrounds that the similes provide relief. The difference is that the shield contrasts
these two worlds while the similes take you from the city at war to the city of
peace. Therefore the similes help to
with relief but also they show the similarities between war and peace while the
shield illustrates both the similarities and the differences.
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