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Secondly, as redundantly said a plethora of times before, the man of the hour was a very selfish and ungrateful leader. Throughout The Odyssey, and the film also named The Odyssey directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, depicted Odysseus constantly fighting and arguing with the gods over the littlest things. When did these things occur? Whenever Odysseus did not get what he wanted or whenever things or situations did not go exactly his way. Constantly, Odysseus was referring to Athena and Poseidon and asking to them for help, and whenever he did not get what he wanted, he reverted back to bad-mouthing the gods and denounce them for not helping at what he thought was the right time. Which ended up getting him …show more content…
Most say that sacrifice is a normal part of the hero’s journey, and that every hero has to sacrifice something in order to save others. And yes, that is valid and completely true, but that was not what Odysseus was doing. What Odysseus did was out of pure selfish gain. Cheating on his wife to ‘save his men’, letting his men die by being torn apart by the Polyphemus the Cyclop simply so he and the fittest of the crew could escape. Letting his men die by the hundreds, leading them to their unknowing suicides by steering the ship towards the scary sea monster, hoping that by keeping them in high spirits, they would be able to defeat the sea monster (Homer 932). Yes, seriously, he did believe that. And so on, one could go on about how wrong his mentality was on the ideal of sacrifice, but in short, the sacrifices he made were in the interest of himself, not his men. If his sacrifices were meant to be for the sake of his men, he would not have invaded the Cyclopes dwelling, he would not have denounced the gods constantly, knowing full well that they were the only entities keeping him and his crew alive (or so what he believed). And he would have kept his mind on the wellbeing of his crew, but instead, though understandably, his mind was only on his family and his child (for the most part). In that time-being of him only thinking about himself and his family, he made some impulsively horrid decisions that prolonged his journey in the long-run. Secondly, some say that Odysseus’ journey to and from the Trojan War make him a hero, and that as long as he follows the formula, he is a hero. There’s so many problems with this statement, the hero formula, as most
Secondly, as redundantly said a plethora of times before, the man of the hour was a very selfish and ungrateful leader. Throughout The Odyssey, and the film also named The Odyssey directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, depicted Odysseus constantly fighting and arguing with the gods over the littlest things. When did these things occur? Whenever Odysseus did not get what he wanted or whenever things or situations did not go exactly his way. Constantly, Odysseus was referring to Athena and Poseidon and asking to them for help, and whenever he did not get what he wanted, he reverted back to bad-mouthing the gods and denounce them for not helping at what he thought was the right time. Which ended up getting him …show more content…
Most say that sacrifice is a normal part of the hero’s journey, and that every hero has to sacrifice something in order to save others. And yes, that is valid and completely true, but that was not what Odysseus was doing. What Odysseus did was out of pure selfish gain. Cheating on his wife to ‘save his men’, letting his men die by being torn apart by the Polyphemus the Cyclop simply so he and the fittest of the crew could escape. Letting his men die by the hundreds, leading them to their unknowing suicides by steering the ship towards the scary sea monster, hoping that by keeping them in high spirits, they would be able to defeat the sea monster (Homer 932). Yes, seriously, he did believe that. And so on, one could go on about how wrong his mentality was on the ideal of sacrifice, but in short, the sacrifices he made were in the interest of himself, not his men. If his sacrifices were meant to be for the sake of his men, he would not have invaded the Cyclopes dwelling, he would not have denounced the gods constantly, knowing full well that they were the only entities keeping him and his crew alive (or so what he believed). And he would have kept his mind on the wellbeing of his crew, but instead, though understandably, his mind was only on his family and his child (for the most part). In that time-being of him only thinking about himself and his family, he made some impulsively horrid decisions that prolonged his journey in the long-run. Secondly, some say that Odysseus’ journey to and from the Trojan War make him a hero, and that as long as he follows the formula, he is a hero. There’s so many problems with this statement, the hero formula, as most