What is the fundamental cause of Achilles’ rage?

Essay: the Iliad
What is the fundamental cause of Achilles’ rage?
Please write a 5-paragraph essay in which you show that despite his anger at the loss of his war-prize and his anger at being cheated out of his fair share of the loot, the fundamental cause of Achilles’ rage is his strange and inhuman relationship to his own death.
If I were you, I would proceed in this way:
A) Compose a thesis paragraph in which you set forth your claim regarding the true cause of Achilles’ rage, and which ends with a statement of how you intend to show that your claim is correct.
B) Write a paragraph built around a quote from Book 1 in which you show that despite his anger at Agamemnon’s action, Homer gives us reason to believe that Achilles was already enraged before Briseis was taken.
C) Write a paragraph built around a quote from Book 9 in which you show that despite his anger at being cheated out if his fair share of the war prizes, Homer points us in the direction of the true cause of Achilles’ rage.
D) Write a paragraph built around a quote from Books 16-19 in which you show the true cause of Achilles’ rage by analyzing his interactions with Patroclus.
E) Write a conclusion paragraph in which you defend your thesis by explaining howthe death of Patroclus altered what you have claimed was the true cause of Achilles’ rage.

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