![]() They come at a costly price though, and Sirena learns the hard way that even in the context of love, the urge is always to do violence. Sirena realizes that through her sacrifice, she has attained the passage to her own immortality, the love of a good man. For a long while, she lurks in the darkness, watching him, debating whether or not she can approach him without doing him some kind of harm. Instead of sailing to the war, Philoctetes finds himself stranded on a deserted island alone with Sirena. ![]() ![]() One day, Philoctetes, a loner of his own kind, finds his way to the island after having been abandoned by his crew and left for dead after a snake bite. She is appalled by her moral enlightenment and retreats to the Isle of Lemnos to live a lonely life as a hermit, without the songs of her beloved sisters. One day she realizes with a start that by luring men to "love" the mermaids, they might be literally stealing their souls by crashing their boats into the steep rocks. Like The Little Mermaid, Sirena is a half-human mermaid who along with her sisters live along the ocean floor. ![]() Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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