Aeneas
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Aeneas' act at the end of The Aeneid is not one which contradicts his character. Aeneas kills Turnus out of justice and vengeance. Though he exercises restraint in many instances, he only does so in order to fulfill a duty. At the end, he is able to satiate his desire to kill Turnus because at that moment his desire and his duty are one and the same. Aeneas' duty is to protect and ensure a future, one preordained by the gods. Filial piety and reverence for the gods' are sated by Turnus' death because Aeneas vows to avenge a son's death and it is Turnus' fate to perish.
Aeneas' murderous rage is first seen in Book II of Virgil's Aeneid. After witnessing Priams' and his family's brutal death, Aeneas catches sight of Helen, the cause of the war. He goes after Helen to kill her for the tragedies she's caused, "My heart will teem with joy in this avenging fire, and the ashes of my kin will be appeased" (Book II, lines 769-770). Aeneas has every intention of killing Helen but is stopped by the spectral image of his mother...