User:Cdoyle1235

In the book Black Ships before Troy I feel that out of all the characters in the story, I feel the most sorry for Helen. Helen is a Greek and at that time she was known as the most beautiful woman alive, this is why she is being mistreated.

I have many reasons for feeling that Helen is being mistreated, Helen is married to Menelaus. Menelaus is extremely kind to Paris however Paris is a jerk to Menelaus because he leaves to go fight in the war one day and then Paris decides to kidnap Helen and they fled from Menelaus.

Helen has the choice of falling in love with Paris, she is struck in the heart by one of the gods so now she is in love with Paris. I think that it should be her choice to decide who she falls in love with and the gods nor Paris should have an impact on her love life. So then they fled to a near island.

The last reason I think Helen is the character to feel the most sorry for is because after those two events happened, that started the whole war and it was literally because of Helen and she did definitely not want that. She did not have any decision in the whole book, everything was decided for her.

My conclusion to this topic in the book Black Ships Before Troy is that I think everyone (Paris) should back off and leave her alone because she has not done anything and that is why I feel sorry for her.