Odysseus Essay

Odysseus, the fabled hero from The Odyssey, and Che Guevara, the renowned revolutionary, both endure the stages of the hero’s journey of Trials, Allies, and Enemies, the Road Back, and the Supreme Ordeal, however Guevara’s journey gave humanity the strength to fight for one’s values, no matter the consequence. Both of the heroes face the stage of the Trials, Allies, and Enemies. Odysseus faces various tests such as Poseidon drowning him, but thankfully Odysseus makes friends with a mermaid,…

bravery, is about a man named Odysseus. After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces many obstacles from sea monsters to land-dwelling monsters, only trying to achieve his goal…

My argument in this paper is that the heroic values between Homer’s Odysseus and Vergil’s Aeneas reveals a shift from Greek tradition to morally equivocal Roman ideals. As it is in the narrator’s intention for the reader to choose between protagonists with two heads on the same coin, I will establish moral discrepancy by looking at the meaning between the poems’ Gods and role of women. Before concluding such a subjective opinion, it must be said that these are matters over which the Gods…

Odysseus is a self-centered leader who allows his own personal desires to cloud his judgement as a leader which puts not only himself, but his men in danger. When Odysseus and his men come upon a cave full of sheeps and crates full of cheese, Odysseus decides to enter the cave. Even when his men advise him to take some cheese and drive the lambs to the ship and set sail, odysseus lets his curiosity get the best of him and decides to wait for the giant to return. “...We looked around at…

characteristics of being brave, strong, and willing to risk your life for your friends or family. In The Odyssey, Odysseus has different heroic characteristics like being very strategic, having an emotional side and being a leader. Odysseus and his men are trying to get home to Ithaca. Odysseus has to do some heroic things and lose all the lives of his men as he learns to overcome challenges. Odysseus is a very strategic leader. He knows what to do in tough situations. He is a very quick…

Odysseus is a smart person who gets out of things very easily. Without one using weapons sometimes. Without a plan he thinks of what to do fast. Also the way he gets out of things without a crew and tries to get people on his side. That’s how he is a smart person. Odysseus is smart without having a plan Odysseus thinks of something off his head. Example is “chopped three section pole smoothed it out at bear to the rust and grind that spike in cyclops eye when he was in a deep sleep.” So he came…

a walk through life because you face fear and hardships. you have to overcome. Like Odysseus I will face betrayal and monsters that will get in my way. But even if I may face trials I’ll get through them and move on. So like Odysseus facing trials trying to get home, I’ll face trials trying to reach my goal. If I want to work with animals or be an artist I will have to go through some of the same trials as odysseus did. One trial are the people like the cyclopes the people who don’t care about…

A mighty hero who was tempted by the act of heroism. Odysseus was a great hero, he has a lot of strengths, weaknesses, and conflicts along the way. Even though it seems as if we should start with the weaknesses, we will start with his strengths. Odysseus has various strengths. “He fought bravely in the Trojan”(Homer), you can't say many mortals did that. Odysseus had to prepare his men for the sirens. Even though all he had to do was simply go around. Although he has many strengths, he also…

The Odyssey, an epic poem by Homer later adapted into a play by Simon Armitage, is a narrative depicting the journey of the greek hero Odysseus back to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War. His voyage spans twenty years, and throughout the course of his trip back home, Odysseus and his men encounter various obstacles that they need to overcome. Since Odysseus is essentially the leader of his crew, it is most often his responsibility to defeat the enemy and solve the problem at hand. At times,…

In the Odyssey, Homer portrays the main character, Odysseus, as a genuine, and raw character that readers can relate to in his triumphs and downfalls as a leader through usage of figurative language and verbatim throughout the piece. He has many tribulations to deface, and through each of them, the author further develops him into a better, more fierce leader. This development is carried throughout the story, and shows that he, like everyone else, has things to work through in his character and…