Arrogance is one of the countless amount of mistakes and flaws a person is prone to throughout his or her lifetime. It is the feeling of superiority, egoism, and over-confidence in a person’s own self. Literary texts and infamous historical leaders portray this personal flaw in several different ways. For example, The Odyssey is a story about Odysseus who caused his journey to be difficult due to his naive and arrogant behaviour. In addition, Beowulf is an epic poem about the life of a great warrior who lost his life because of his feelings of overconfidence. Finally, in the Bible, God banished Lucifer from heaven because he believed his status was above the creation of God. Hence, the greatest human flaw is arrogance because it causes a person
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In a notorious epic poem known as The Odyssey, the main character, Odysseus, faced severe consequences for being arrogant after escaping the One-Eyed Giant’s Cave. Before embarking on his journey home, Odysseus proclaimed his identity to the monster. Fueled with anger, the monster called out to his father,
Hear me Poseidon, god of the sea-blue mane who rocks the earth! If I really am your son and you claim to be my father - come, grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca, never reaches home. Or if he’s fated to see his people once again and reach his well-built house and his own native country, let him come home late and come a broken man - all shipmates lost, alone in a stranger’s ship - and let him find a world of pain at home (Homer, 229).
The monster prays that Poseidon will get revenge on Odysseus by making his expedition difficult. Eventually, Poseidon answered his prayer by placing a numerous amount of obstacles in the way of his journey home. In resumption, Odysseus allowed feelings of over-confidence to plague his mind after his grand escape. Hence, this caused him to make a grave mistake of telling the monster his name, leading to the death of his crew members and a failure to reach his home on
In a notorious epic poem known as The Odyssey, the main character, Odysseus, faced severe consequences for being arrogant after escaping the One-Eyed Giant’s Cave. Before embarking on his journey home, Odysseus proclaimed his identity to the monster. Fueled with anger, the monster called out to his father,
Hear me Poseidon, god of the sea-blue mane who rocks the earth! If I really am your son and you claim to be my father - come, grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca, never reaches home. Or if he’s fated to see his people once again and reach his well-built house and his own native country, let him come home late and come a broken man - all shipmates lost, alone in a stranger’s ship - and let him find a world of pain at home (Homer, 229).
The monster prays that Poseidon will get revenge on Odysseus by making his expedition difficult. Eventually, Poseidon answered his prayer by placing a numerous amount of obstacles in the way of his journey home. In resumption, Odysseus allowed feelings of over-confidence to plague his mind after his grand escape. Hence, this caused him to make a grave mistake of telling the monster his name, leading to the death of his crew members and a failure to reach his home on