Odysseus Journey In Homer's Odyssey

In the Odyssey, Homer uses Odysseus’s journey to show how one’s journey can change them as a person. In this story there are many ways that the journey changes the character These are just a few some of the effect are large some are hardly noticeable. One way Odysseus’s journey has changed him as a person is he as become more violent. The narrator recounts, “Your last hour has come.You die in blood” (homer 1258). This shows Odysseus violent side this event occurs when he reaches his home and finds suitors in his house. He gets a group together that includes his son and servants and goes into battle with the suitors. He is able to kill all the suitors and has no mercy armed or unarmed. This shows one of the few cases in how his journey has effected him in a bad way. …show more content…
This also shows odysseus having to ask Hermes to ask one of the gods to demand his release. This is not a very clever plan it is just kinda calling for help which anyone can do. This quote shows a better way of escape. The narrator recounts, “blinded, and sick with pain from his head wound, the master stroked each ram then let it pass’’. (Homer 1220)This quote shows how odysseus is able to strap his crew to rams and get the cyclops drunk and make their escape .This also shows how odysseus is way more clever in his escapes. This is a pretty clever way of escape compared from the first