When reading The Odyssey by Homer, the main idea is a life’s journey that is filled with obstacles and bumps in the road. Odysseus has been at war for sometime now and he has spent all these years trying to make it home. Themes are important ideas that can be looked at in literary work. Disguise is the theme that is often looked at in The Odyssey. The qualities of disguise are closely related to The Odyssey. Odysseus is very clever in many instances throughout his journey with his cleverness and his ideas on how to disguise himself help him survive in this ancient world of different monsters and gods. Odysseus decides to disguise his own identity in order to survive in some dangerous situations. For example he claims to be called
