In the story, "The Trojan Horse", the Greeks are in a long war with the Trojans. The Greeks have been forced to stay out on the beaches and fight because the Trojans have a giant wall guarding their city which was guarded at all times so they couldn't get into the city. So the Greeks thought of a brilliant idea and moved all of their ships to the other side of the island to make it look like they left and brought a horse and 1 man to the wall. The man said this is a gift for all the troubles we have called. Take it as a gift and bring it into your walls. What the Trojans didn't know is that Greece's best warriors were in the horse and ready to fight. The plan worked flawlessly and they bought the horse inside their wall. As night came when everyone was asleep the Greek's slid open a secret hatch in the horse and anxious warriors were ready to fight. The Greek's killed the price and captured Helen and made the trojans surrender. The plan couldn't have worked any better.
In the play the Trojan Horse Paris, the prince of Troy captured Helen and one of the gods sent a love spell down on the two of them and they fell in love. Instead of the Greeks going to get back Helen and start a war the gods said that they just wanted to play war. So the Greek's didn't set out to capture Helen back from Troy the gods just made them play war. Compared to the real story this play has the same idea but the overall message is different. The gods don't actually use their real powers in the story they just have fun playing war. And the last big part that was different about the play is that when the Greek's brought the horse in front of Troy the warriors didn't hide in the horse they hid behind the horse.
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