Role Of Maria Mitchell In The Odyssey

How can three different people from different times and backgrounds be the same? Maria Mitchell, Shane, and Odysseus are all heroes in some way. Maria Mitchell was the first independent woman to find a comment using a telescope. Shane came into a town and had to save the people who help him out. Odysseus went on many adventures to make it home after twenty years and take back his kingdom and wife. They do not seem to share many qualities, but they do. Before you can compare these heroes’ qualities, you need to know about them.

Maria Mitchell believed in women having rights and education in the 1800’s. Women did not have very many rights before around 1850. After this women still did not have very many rights. Not only did Maria Mitchell fight for women’s rights and education, she was the first professional American woman astronomer, as well as a college professor. Maria Mitchell was very strong minded and determined. She wanted more rights for women. Maria was not going to let the fact that she was a woman stop her from doing what she loved. Being brave and intelligent were more qualities Maria showed in her life. She went against most of the social norms in the 1800’s …show more content…
In that story Odysseus goes on a twenty year journey to return home after the trojan war. He goes on various adventures trying to return home after being cursed. Through the Odyssey, Odysseus shows us that he is brave, strong, smart, arrogant, and he can get out of just about every situation. His bravery is shown when he is fighting a cyclops and when he was fighting the sea monster. Odysseus has fought many creatures and men, and still live to make it home. At times, Odysseus was arrogant and angry. The whole reason he could not return home was because he couldn’t handle the cyclop not knowing that it had been Odysseus who defeated him. Going from place to place, getting mixed up in fighting and monsters he knew how to get out of all of those