n as the prize. Paris loses but the gods save him. They take Paris and Helen and put them in bed together. When Hector finds his brother he is enraged. Hector is very concerned with upholding honor and gives his brother a scolding about how wrong his actions are. There are many separate occasions where the Trojan army would attempt to retreat but Hector would always be the one to say no and want to keep going forward. For example, after Nestor comes to battle in the armor of Achillies the Trojan army retreated but Hector kept going. Another sign of Hectors importance is when he is chosen to be the one who is sent to relay messages back and forth from the city of Troy, to the battlefield. Another character trait that is seen in Hector but in no other character in the poem, is the love for his family. On one of his trips to Troy to relay a message he stops home to see his wife and child. Here the reader gets a sense of love and warmth from Hector. A large majority of the poem is about battle, so to see a little compassion in one character makes a difference in that characters role. His main purpose in fighting in the war is to protect his wife and child. He states his concern for them if the city was to be taken over at the end of book six. No other characters portray that image to the reader. Hector was even able to resist Helen when she tried to seduce him in book seven, after his duel with Ajax. He could have slept with her, who would have known? Instead he remained faithful to his wife. Throughout all of the battles you could hear Hector chanting to his men, hyping them up, just making the situation a little better for his men. In the end of the poem Hector is the one to die. He shows his bravery by fighting Achilles in the last book of the poem. All of Hectors fellow knights took shelter at the sign of Achilles but he did not. Instead he chose to stand up to Achilles even if it did cost him his life. The battle was very intense and ...
