Sunday, 3 November 2019

Judgement of Paris

The Three Goddess with the Golden Apple of Discord from jcogtas

Judgement, we can’t deny the fact that we sometimes mistakenly judge someone with the things that our eyes see, with the things we hear and the things that the society spreads. The word is very powerful it can make you or it can break you. People wanted the title and the praise that the society will give so they can be glorified and of course the popularity. It may have positive result yet in the other side of the coin, the people who feels good about judging others and didn’t notice that the one they are judging wrongly are in pain. Being wrongly judge and accuse of a trait you do not possessed may lead you to a broken reputation.

            The Judgement of Paris was ultimately a beauty contest between the goddesses Aphrodite, Hera and Athena, but the cause of the beauty contest was due to events at a wedding. The wedding of Peleus and Thetis was a joyous event and all of the gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon were invited to the celebration, that was all the deities were invited except Eris, the Goddess of Discord. When Eris discovered that the festivities were going on, the goddess decided to make an appearance anyway, and the goddess even brought a wedding gift, a Golden Apple. This though was not a happy gift, for it was aimed to bring forth arguments, for upon it was written the words “for the fairest”. Three of the assembled goddesses immediately claimed the Golden Apple for themselves, each believing that they were the most beautiful of all the goddesses. Zeus was asked to mediate and he commanded Hermes to lead the three goddesses to Paris of Troy to decide the issue. The three goddesses appearing before the shepherd prince, each offering him gifts for favour. He chose Aphrodite, swayed by her promise to bestow upon him Helene, the most beautiful woman, for wife.
            As Paris chooses Aphrodite, I personally think that he chooses her as the fairest of them all because of the gift. He was blinded by the bribe that Aphrodite presented, the most beautiful woman to be his wife. It was not Aphrodite who won, it was the gift who won the Golden Apple which is entitled with “To the Fairest.”

“Little things make big thing happen” the quote presented described what happened to the Trojan War. With just that golden apple and the sensitivity of Aphrodite a war commences, as well as the selfishness that Paris showed, the subsequent abduction of Helene led directly to the Trojan War and the fall of the city. All of those aren’t worthy for a 10-year war, too greedy for power, too greedy for praise. It is all because of the trait and the title they want to possessed, just like the society today. They are willing to do anything just to make the favour theirs.
           
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