Tragedy Of Odysseus Was Justified In Homer's Odyssey

Odysseus was well justified when he decided to take action, by killing his wife’s wooers, and anyone who was associated with them. One reason Odysseus actions against the suitors was compensated for was the way he seen them treat his servants, wife, son, and his palace. During the time Homer was believed to have written stories, respect was expected from both the host and the guest, whether the host was a wealthy landlord or a poor merchant, and the guest a wandering prince, or a beggar. The suitors show their shamelessness by welcoming themselves into Odysseus’s palace on the hunch that the king of the castle is dead, and inviting themselves to feast on the food for nearly 10 years. It is well known that the only reason they assumed Odysseus …show more content…
you never imagined I’d return from Troy— so cocksure that you bled my house to death, ravished my serving-women—wooed my wife behind my back while I was still alive! No fear of the gods who rule the skies up there, no fear that men’s revenge might arrive someday— now all your necks are in the noose—your doom is sealed! (Homer 336)” Odysseus repeats the sins he knows the suitors to be guilty of, which somewhat mimics a judge reading over the crimes of a prisoner before revealing the previously decided punishment. At this point, Odysseus is in a state of rage and is in a argument with the suitors, and they are conversing on whether they should be punished with death (what odysseus has already fixed his mind on), or whether their injustices to Odysseus can be forgiven by being repaid or settled over. The tone given by Odysseus is one of a man who finally meets someone he has heard is taking advantage of him in his absence, and the conversation between him and the suitors has little change in what Odysseus thinks of them. Odysseus remarks the changes made to his beloved palace, which has been eaten, drank, and exploited to a point of insignificance. In addition, the suitors …show more content…
Seeing the castle from so long ago, he sees lazy men eating his food, trying to woo his wife, and his servants being taken advantage of.He saw an almost unbearable sight, but seized his anger to stay with the instructions given to him by Athena, that to stay out of suspicion to witness the full extent of the suitor’s unacceptable behaviour. Then so, he was left as the only man who could decide the faith of the suitors, and he determined that they had no right to live at all with many reasons to