What Is Cruel In The Odyssey

War is cruel. It takes but never gives anything good in return. In World War 2, war took the lives of over 60 million people. In the Odyssey, war killed the crew of Odysseus. The poem “War is kind” also describes war as what it truly is, horrific, terrifying, and cruel. War also leaves terrible scars on the soldiers; an article over PTSD shows just how terrible those scars are. All three works of literature show that war is cruel. The Odyssey is a collection of chapters telling the story of Odysseus and Ithica. Odysseus is sent off to war to go fight a war that lasted ten years. This is the first way that war is cruel. Odysseus had a family, a son and wife. This war took him from them for ten years. Not to mention the other ten years that it took him to get back. Another way that the Odyssey shows that war is cruel is when Odysseus and his crew go and plunder a village. It is one thing to plunder and conquer a city, but it is another to attack, slay their animals, and steal their wives. “We took their wives and also much booty” this in addition with “, so they stayed there drinking much wine and killing great numbers of sheep and oxen” just shows how truly barbaric and cruel war is. The Odyssey wasn’t exactly direct about how war is, but “War is kind” was very upfront about it. In the third …show more content…
PTSD is most commonly produced from war. Some events that may lead to PTSD include: watching a friend die, getting shot, or having to kill someone; all of these events happen in war. The results of PTSD are pretty intense and horrible to go through. According to the PTSD article, some of the effects are: feelings of depression, issues with drugs and or alcohol, and even reliving the event. War must be incredibly bad for people to suffer even after. It’s cruel that even after you go through such a horrible event, you still have to deal with the