Why Odysseus Is A Hero

Odysseus is a hero according to him being loyal to anybody and helping others out in order to get to Ithaca to his family and kingdom. He may be a hero, but mostly if he were one, he would not had had let some of his men die and suffer. For all reasons he once went into a cave because of his curiosity and got his men eaten by Polyphemus. There was one time he got a prophecy about how his men wouldn’t survive but he had kept the secret to himself. But at the same time he did his best to help his men safe like the time when he was in the cave and Polyphemus ate his men, Odysseus had slayed the monster and got some of his men to escape his dreaded cave. So Odysseus had saved his men but at the same time he did let some of them die, so you can see that Odysseus is a hero but sometimes he holds himself back from being a hero and does things that a hero wouldn’t do. Odysseus is also known to always to finish the job even it meant danger ahead and life threatening times. If Odysseus wasn’t a hero, he would have gave up and would not have tried to get home and wouldn’t even care about his family. It just may be that he may not be a hero because he has no compassion. He would let his men die and had just wander where ever he wants like the time it had taken him to get to his home. Even though that did happen he would still …show more content…
A lot of people said that he wasn’t a hero because of the things he done like having to let some of his innocent men die. He had made choices on his own which made it a risky ride home. Odysseus may be a hero, but really is he? In the story, one time his curiosity almost made him and his men die but at the same time he did save them most of them and he tried his best to keep his men together as one. Even though he is good, he could always make mistakes like a villain would so that is why Odysseus is a hero at certain points and