Dido and Turnus both have a significant relationship to Aeneas' mission. The similarly is that hey both hold extreme emotions towards Aeneas that brings them close to him and hinders him on his journey. Their emotions are both intense but completely opposite; love and hate. Dido does not wish to harm Aeneas' mission until he leaves her and Turnus has ill wishes for Aeneas all along.

Dido is completely in love with Aeneas and holds very strong emotions towards him as she tries to make him stay with her in Carthage. "Deceiver, did you even hope to hide so harsh a crime, to leave this land of mine without a word? Can nothing hold you back- neither your love, the hand you pledged, nor even the cruel death that lies in wait for Dido?" (IV 410

-415) Contrast to Dido's feelings, Turnus has undying hate towards Aeneas and wishes for nothing more to impede on Aeneas' happiness of carrying out his mission on Turnus' homeland. Turnus feels a lot of hatred towards Aeneas because Aeneas and his men walk into his homeland and are trying to claim it and take over it. Turnus also is enraged because of Aeneas' effect on Latinus' decision of handing his daughters hand to Turnus. Turnus wishes nothing more than to cause his death or eliminate Aeneas' destiny. Turnus' desire to defeat Aeneas causes him to think of himself as being like Achilles. "Throw first, if there is cour!

Dido and Turnus' deaths have a great effect on Aeneas on a personal level. Dido kill's herself because Aeneas left her. It was rumored of such actions but was not proved to Aeneas until he saw her in the underworld with a fresh wound that caused her death. When she walks away from Aeneas, he wished for some reason for her to say something positive to him that would give him hope that she may still love him. Dido's death does take an effect on Aeneas emotionally and he feels pity for her. Dido's death hinders Aeneas spiritually. Dido's death is essential to Aeneas' fate because it releases him from his identity as a Carthinian. With his identity released, he can now be free to take on his fated role as the founder of the great city of Rome. Dido's role is essential because she helps him on his journey as he passes through Carthage and helps him on his way of his destiny. Turnus' death is also essential so Aeneas can unite the Latin's with the Trojans and create a new empire in Rome. Turnus' death is compared to the death of Pallas, which enrages Aeneas, which drives the sword into Turnus. Aeneas, hesitating for a moment before killing him, catches sight of Turnus' sword-belt, which had been taken from the body of Pallas and in a fit of rage, he kills Turnus, declaring that it is Pallas who slays him. This is the comparison to Achilles as well. Both deaths are necessary for Aeneas' founding of Rome. Dido and Turnus also both stand in the way of the fates, which

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