People often have both positive and negative traits. Today people in society accomplish great tasks but may become hindered due to their bad traits. Traits including greed and boastfulness make up negative traits that cause people to do the wrong thing. Similarly, in the eighth century epic poem, The Odyssey, the author Homer demonstrates the traits of cunning, the need for glory, articulate dialect, and boastfulness. positive and negative traits lie within the epic hero, Odysseus. Cunning people can have a great advantage. Odysseus shows his cunning abilities in many ways. During the scene of the cyclops Polyphemus, Odysseus portrays cunning in many ways. Perhaps the first thing Odysseus does involves his cunning deceit. When the cyclops
