Trojan's Woman

Euripides’s tragedy “The Trojan Women” is a very interesting topic to play out in a movie because of the different positions the characters have on accusing Helen of being innocent or guilty. If you look on Helen side, acting as a damsel in distress, she can up to a certain point, be declared innocent because she was supposedly forced to do everything she did by the gods, or the men that had control over her. But if you really consider the facts, no woman is that innocent to do such things only for love or by force, there has to be other reasons hiding under her sleeve. She is seductive, and only looks out for herself, when she knows danger is coming she runs the other way leaving behind everything and everyone, and when she comes back she expects to be received with open arms. Queen Hecuba was right to let her explain because everybody deserves to be listened to; she is a wise woman, but also she is full of grief and anger. Helen is responsible for the death of all her loved ones and the destruction of her kingdom, she will obviously want to see her dead, but she isn’t blinded by that anger and lets her speak. And finally we have King Menelaus, Helens former husband. He listens to her but is not fooled by the reasons Helen gives to declare her innocence and does the correct thing to take her to Greece to be killed there, but there is always the possibility that Helen convinces the King hat she is innocent, considering her beauty and her intelligence she might get away with it, but we won’t know unless we see the whole movie. In this case, it is very difficult to really declare the innocence or guiltiness of Helen because the are many versions of the story, and the one you chose to believe, that will give you the answer on when ether killing Helen is the right thing to do. There is never a side that is a hundred percent right or wrong, but it’s the one we chose to believe.