Akshay Choudhari

Reading it is fun and amusing, but the character of Helen is mutilated. She is portrayed as omnipotent and omniscience . She is shown to be even more powerful than Zeus himself , pulling all the strings . She leaves Menelaus to seek a warmer bed , that's all , for lawless lust not love . Aphrodite is pictured as a benevolent Goddess , who is all kind and all good , but everyone knows what true Aphrodite is like. If you read the book , then one can say that , the poison Gelanor gives Helen for Deiphobus , to kill his manlihood , he should have used on Helen itself in Sparta . So her lust would be dead , no Paris , no Aphrodite , could help her feel the warmth then. Preventing the Trojan war all together. Again , at the end , Menelaus spares her life , by the sight of her .... , but then he is shown impotent, which is quite contradictory. A suitable ending for such a self justifying , blameless , lustful Helen is to be ravished by all the suitors in the end, until she dies in an extremely warm bed. So that she will never complain that , it's not warm enough for her.