Character Analysis Of Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey

Odysseus returns to Ithica after twenty years. He is disguised as an old beggar. He believes enough time has been wasted and wants things to go back to normal. Penelope makes an offer to the wooers. She gets the bow of Odysseus and tells the wooers that whoever will easily string the bow and shoot the arrow through twelve axes will be rewarded. The reward is he will become her husband. Odysseus asked the Queen if he could participate being he was an old beggar. Everyone was surprised that she agreed.

Odysseus wins the contest much to everyone’s surprise. Odysseus after shooting the arrow kills Antinuous with an arrow in his throat. He continues to do the same to the 108 wooers one by one.

I believe the punishment was too severe. Odysseus was angry upon returning home. He was …show more content…
Did he consider that he had been gone for twenty years?

Antinuous was the first killed by Odysseus. He was an evil man. Odysseus knew nothing of the other l07 suitors. They were not all evil men. Some were very sincere in wanting to wed Penelope. One example is Amphinomous who was prince of Nisus pleased Penelope with hiskind words and kind heart. Another example is Leiodes, who was a soothsayer, not one of the wooers, and didn’t agree with the wooers. He pleads with Odysseus for his life saying that he did nothing