Similarities Between Odysseus And Joseph

Historically heroes and their tales have been around for centuries and revolved around certain cultures all around the world. The surroundings around these heroes change throughout each story, but the heroes themselves are all the same. The hero usually doesn’t decide to be a hero; he is usually chosen to become one by a great force. They usually all have a same basic plot story as well, they have to go on a journey and make great sacrifices along the way and along they plot of these stories he has to overcome these obstacles. Examples of these great heroes are Odysseus traveling back home after the Trojan War and Joseph ruling the people from Egypt out of a famine. These two great heroes’ are quite similar to one another by being imperfect heroes, they are different in a cultural sense and both overcome personal transformations. Hebrew and Greek culture greatly differ from one another, but their heroes are almost one in the same. Our heroes aren’t the most perfect specimens they are actually quite flawed; they lie and commit things that question their morals. Although married, …show more content…
Both Odysseus and Joseph had to make great sacrifices for their people and throughout their journeys they go through somewhat of a personal transformation. Joseph’s personal transformation was to keep faith; he had gone through so many struggles from the betrayal of his brothers, to the Pharaoh’s lying wife and being imprisoned for a long time. He thought that God wasn’t on his side, but by keeping his faith God ultimately rewarded him for all of his struggles and Joseph became the ruler of Egypt and saved many people. Similarly, Odysseus had to change from adventurer who didn’t have self-control to a dependable leader. Both these heroes went on great adventures and transformed themselves in order to become even