Summary: Ten years have passed since the fall of Troy‚ and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and rowdy mob of suitors who have overrun Odysseus’s palace and pillaged his land continue to court his wife‚ Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus. Prince Telemachus‚ Odysseus’s son‚ wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors‚ Antinous‚ plans to assassinate the young prince‚ eliminating
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Its importance‚ in part‚ derives from its tale of the development of a new nation‚ a development in both space and culture. Huckleberry Finn’s journey into the developing landscape of the South has some very striking commonalities with that of Odysseus’s journey in The Odyssey. With the characters‚ journeys and story structures being so similar between the two epics‚ it is imperative that analysis be given. Huck Finn and Odysseus are surprisingly similar given the time period in which
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Ciera Medeiros English Honors Period A 11/29/12 There are many different characteristics that make a person a true leader. Odysseus is a fictional character from a fantasy epic poem known as “The Odyssey.” He traveled on a twenty year journey with many men along with him but in the end all of his men perished; Odysseus can be classified as a leader and a hero along with a man named Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton is a real life man who went on an expedition to reach Antarctica in the years
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Arrogance is an extreme factor in Odysseus’s journey as he has an alter ego bigger than he; Athena is the cunning and positive side of Odysseus’s alter ego while Poseidon makes up his arrogance and negative side. After the Trojan war‚ Odysseus begins to make Poseidon turn against him in all ways possible – not only does Odysseus exclaim that
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physical act it concludes that his journey was external. He overcame numerous physical obstacles‚ traveling from place to place‚ and he finally closes his journey with the conquering of another one. The presence of so many concrete‚ physical aspects of Odysseus’s journey categorizes it as an external epic‚ one that involves more interaction with the outside world than with the mind. Aneas’s fate however‚ is a bit more abstract. He is destined to end up in Italy to begin the Roman Empire and he knows that
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Odysseus’s Greatest Enemy: The World Itself Greece is a beautiful Mediterranean-bordering country. People revel in its beautiful mountains and beaches. One would think that nothing bad could ever occur in such a beautiful paradise. However‚ in the grand epic The Odyssey‚ written by the Greek poet Homer‚ a gentleman named Odysseus is put into troubling scenarios which he must surpass in order to be reunited with his love‚ Penelope. As “People need heroes and epics provide heroes who
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Book 11 of Homer’s The Odyssey continues Odysseus’s tale of how he came to arrive in Scheria‚ with him relating his voyage to the underworld. He makes the interesting choice of cutting his narrative choice halfway through his tale in order to incite a reaction from his Phaeacian audience. Odysseus makes this interruption because he is telling his tale not to relate what actually occurred in his travels‚ but because he needed help from the Phaeacians and used the story to obtain that help. Odysseus
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that it is a noble man’s right to tap into his instinctual manners and desires. He believes the “governing unconscious instincts” are not only “important‚” but also “daring” (Nietzsche 21). When approaching the Sirens on their way back to Ithaca‚ Odysseus’s men sail safely by the island with their ears stuffed with wax‚ while Odysseus has himself strapped to a pole to experience the sirens’ call - a call so intoxicating and tainted‚ but indulgent to Nietzsche’s noble man. What may seem like pitfalls
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until a trick came-and it pleased me well. The Cyclops’s Rams were handsome‚ fat‚ with healthy fleeces‚ a dark violet” (I: 418-422). This quote portrays how quickly Odysseus implements a plan to escape the cave. Furthermore‚ this shows how important Odysseus’s leadership was to the crew; without Odysseus the men would have never gotten out alive. Simile- “... caught two in his hand like squirming puppies…”(I: 279). This quote depicts the two men struggling to free themselves from the Cyclops’s
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of the cave they were trapped in. On the Cicones Island‚ even though he didn’t make much attempt to make his men leave and his lack of respect from his men was poor causing him to lose 36 men he still shared all the spoils out equally. Odysseus’s leadership was a lot better on Lotus-eater Island because he didn’t lose any of his men. Also his tactics were a lot better because he only sends three men to investigate the Island but when they ate the lotus flowers which put them into a forgetful
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