Theme Of Adversity In The Odyssey

Both the Odyssey and Great expectations involve an adventure to experience through tough adversity that they have to overcome. There is not a lot to know about Homer, but he wrote two stories called the Iliad and The Odyssey. His style of writing is a heroic poetry. Homer sets the story in the town of Troy, where a character named Odysseus- a well known hero of The Odyssey, begins his adventure. Odysseus is very intelligent and knows how to defeat his opponents by outsmarting them. He has to overcome temptations and survive the obstacles to get back to his wife Penelope. At the end of the story the moral of the story is the fall into temptations, and Pride. Both stories involve a character that goes through a considerable amount of adversity, but Charles Dickens has a more flamboyant style of writing. Dickens sets his story in a …show more content…
"'Not even a well found ship with a fair wind could venture on such a distant voyage: nothing that you can say or do shall make me go on board a raft unless you first solemnly swear that you mean no mischief.” (56) Odysseus refuses to go and doesn’t want to leave Penelope all alone, and be far from her. This is similar to Great expectations because they both don’t want to leave since their adventure is going to be far away from their family. Although Great Expectations and The Odyssey show similarities, they are also different in ways. In The Odyssey the character Odysseus pretends to be crazy as he refuses to accept the calling. In Great Expectations Pip’s reaction to the call is that he was excited to go, and happy that the opportunity was set out for him. He also didn’t want to leave his family and move to another place. These two books are very similar in this part of the hero’s journey, but also have their differences in how the story is set up. That is why these two books show similarities in the refusal of the