The Role Of The Hero's Journey In The Odyssey

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In “ The Odyssey” by Homer odysseus go to fight in the Trojan war and makes a decade long journey back home to Ithaca to find suitors trying to take over Ithaca and marry his wife. The gods were angered because odysseus's journey home took longer than expected. In the “ Hero's Journey” by Joseph Campbell supports the idea of odysseus is a brave hero. Three reasons to support that is supernatural aid which was the help from the gods. The call to adventure that is when he goes to Troy. The call to adventure supports the Odysseus Journey going the Trojan war. “ What of my sailing, then, from Troy? What of those years of rough adventure, weathered” (Homer) In this quote it talks about odysseus going to the trojan war, The hero's journey,

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