To Win is to Lose

   Life will always be there to give you those circumstances in life that just makes you wanna give up everything. And in every man's success there's always that hidden failure in it. Some may know and some may not. Others don't take it as a failure and just ignore it. 
  Like Aeneas, we all now that he had won almost every battle he had fought and in the end claimed his prize. With pride and satisfaction that he had reached the destined place for him and his comrades. This really sums up the whole theme of Aeneas' travel. Though behind his great success comes a tragic consequence. He saw it coming. He knew that someday his most cherished wife shall be parted from him and forever be gone in the pits of loneliness. Aeneas also lost the trust of Dido who died in a suicide and cursed Aeneas. These were one of the terrible incidents that had happened throughout Aeneas' journey and he stood remarkable.
   Even though Aeneas has underwent through a lot of misfortune there were also some instances that gave him strength. Like the death of his father. This obstacles in his life didn't just gave him stress it gave him something to fight for. And because of this he gained his prize.