When his time is taken away from him, he has thus lost everything. So a bold decision like that inspired by his own rage came easily to him because Achilles had nothing to lose. Agamemnon and his men will suffer greatly due to the absence of the noble Achilles. His anger was so strong that it took divine interaction to prevent the murder. Achilles swore "that the day is coming when the Achaeans and all will miss me sorely, and you in your despair will be powerless to help them as they fall in their hundreds to Hector killer of men. Then, you will tear your heart out in remorse for having treated the best man in the expedition with contempt." (29) Achilles has reached the point where he no longer cares for his good name or the Greeks standing in the war. Thus Achilles" feud affects the plot and flow of the Iliad.
Moving along, Achilles" self imposed isolation is hurting the Greeks on the battlefield. Through Achilles" pride and intense hatred toward Agamemnon, he refuses to fight, and ponders life's meaning. Achilles still "[loathes] like Hell's Gates the man who thinks one thing and says another; so here I give you my decision. You can take it that neither my lord Agamemnon nor the rest of the Danaans are going to win me over, .
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Cowards and brave men are equally respected; and death comes alike to one who has done nothing and one who has toiled hard." (Homer 169) Achilles is certainly bound by his anger which is clouding his judgment. Although he makes valid points, the offer to shower him with gifts would be sufficient to any other man. Yet Achilles, blinded by his anger blatantly refuses the fortune. His anger causes him to forget everything that he has valued in life, reducing him to be a shadow of the great warrior he once was. Achilles once again expresses his resentment of Agamemnon and "his gifts, I like them just as little as I like the man himself.First he must pay me a kind for the bitter humiliation I endured.
