A long journey out at sea with many obstacles that will push you to be the leader your crew needs you to be, would you be able to physically and mentally be able to handle that? If you're anything like Odysseus from The Odyssey by Homer then you'd be a brave, cunning, courageous leader. Odysseus was pushed to the absolute limit and some of his strengths and some of his weaknesses were amplified, like his unity with his crew, his bravery, and his pride.
On a journey like this unity literally determined whether Odysseus survived or not. Even more so if since he was a leader of a crew for ten years. Unity is a strength and when there's unity present between people great things can be achieved and when there's dismemberment in a team everyone thinks that they can do everything on their own. That's why some groups fall …show more content…
When there's pride in a person that person will fall eventually because they think they’re invincible and before the fall there's pride meaning that pride is the cause of the fall. Odysseus's pride was amplified in his journey because he defeated these monsters and overcame difficult obstacles. I can't blame him for being prideful because he defeated these creatures of course he's going to grow prideful same for us if we were in his situation we'd probably grow prideful also but pride can be a dangerous thing because we think we're unstoppable but we really aren't. "Godsake captain! Why bait the beast again? Let him alone!"- Homer (pg 574, p2) Odysseus defeated the cyclopes and afterwards he began to taunt the cyclopes as they escaped because it was a spur of the moment type of thing, in the moment he thought he was untouchable. Sometimes pride can cost you everything and leave you with nothing, in Odysseus's case his taunting could've cost him everything if the cyclopes wouldn’t have missed when he was throwing debris at them. He could've died and all because he got prideful but fortunately their ship didn't get
On a journey like this unity literally determined whether Odysseus survived or not. Even more so if since he was a leader of a crew for ten years. Unity is a strength and when there's unity present between people great things can be achieved and when there's dismemberment in a team everyone thinks that they can do everything on their own. That's why some groups fall …show more content…
When there's pride in a person that person will fall eventually because they think they’re invincible and before the fall there's pride meaning that pride is the cause of the fall. Odysseus's pride was amplified in his journey because he defeated these monsters and overcame difficult obstacles. I can't blame him for being prideful because he defeated these creatures of course he's going to grow prideful same for us if we were in his situation we'd probably grow prideful also but pride can be a dangerous thing because we think we're unstoppable but we really aren't. "Godsake captain! Why bait the beast again? Let him alone!"- Homer (pg 574, p2) Odysseus defeated the cyclopes and afterwards he began to taunt the cyclopes as they escaped because it was a spur of the moment type of thing, in the moment he thought he was untouchable. Sometimes pride can cost you everything and leave you with nothing, in Odysseus's case his taunting could've cost him everything if the cyclopes wouldn’t have missed when he was throwing debris at them. He could've died and all because he got prideful but fortunately their ship didn't get