Iliad

Does Achilles act different showing a different side in book 24 dragging Hector's body or is he the same man in book 22.

please give a detailed explanation of if he was the same who he was in book 22

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I think that Achelles is a chaged man. Achilles' transformation is the true climax of the Iliad. Finally, there is an end to his rage. Looking on Priam, Achilles is able to make the great leap of empathy. He sees his own father in the old king, and he suddenly understands the anguish that he has caused for the old man and others like him, a mourning father for every man that he has killed. The revelation drives him into weeping, for what he has done and what he has lost. At last, Achilles has moved from rage to compassion. No longer is he cut off from humanity,