“He was always acting out some idea of himself, as if he were living his whole life in front of a mirror.” Pyrrhus is strange, cruel, and pathetic, and described as a “weedy little sapling struggling to survive in the shadow of a great oak.” A man that’s always going to fall short in the shadow of the “greatest” warrior ever to live, and always going to be watched and judged. Andromache is the same, yet more timid and tired. That is their lives now.īriseis is reliving her past horrors of being Achilles’s war prize, being groped and raped, while still reeling from her family’s and people’s massacres. Rape is a common occurrence and has lost the shock factor that it had in the beginning. Dryly and tragically, she thinks, “The walls of Troy have well and truly been breached.” Especially comical, considering that Briseis is carrying Achilles’s baby, which protects her from the harm afforded to the other women. We watch Andromache go through what Briseis did before her, replaying her character arc and strife. More women for the spoils of the Greek army, as Briseis thinks while sympathising with the Trojan Andromache over being raped by Pyrrhus, thinking that she was once not so long ago in her place being raped by Pyrrhus’s father, Achilles. ‘The Women Of Troy’ is the sequel to Pat Barker’s incredible novel, ‘The Silence Of The Girls,’ and it leaves us exactly where we were left on the final page.
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