the poem the Odyssey‚ the main character fits the criteria. Odysseus is an epic hero. An important trait to being an epic hero is that the character is involved in a poem complicated by supernatural beings. To sail home in book 12‚ Odysseus has to navigate through the straits between two monsters‚ Scylla and Charybdis. As he is coming up on Scylla‚ he describes her: Her legs- And there are twelve- are like great
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Antigone is introduced as a determined woman who is wanting to take in the honor for the family by burying Polynices‚ her brother‚ even if it might cost her own life. Ismene‚ Antigone’s sister‚ is introduced as someone who is against Antigone’s plan in attempts to save her family from any further embarrassment from their corrupted family history. Creon declares a law to his city that Polynices should not be buried. Those who do not obey his law will be publicly stoned. Guard saw Antigone burying
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characters like Odysseus to show his growth‚ and self-control and even a character like Lazarus who is hunted down show moral characteristics to demonstrate that too. While Odysseus and Lazarus are not perfect men‚ they both show how they struggled and overcome their flaws to learn a moral lesson from the gods and the threat of mortal or god is a dangerous challenge to face as well. Odysseus‚ king of Ithaca sails to Troy with an army of men to liberate princess Helen from the Trojans. Odysseus’ leadership
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Truthful‚ loyal‚ born leaders‚ and honesty. These are all the characteristics of a real life hero. Odysseus has features almost similar to real life heroes. Real life heroes save lives and help people which is exactly what Odysseus did. Odysseus represents a strong hero because he was a great leader‚ he had a smart mind‚ and he was very brave. A sign of Odysseus’s leadership is when he was facing the heard ships from the Cattle of the Sun God. He knew that they had eaten the cattle so he said "I
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the world a better place from the past to the future. Odysseus was a Greek hero from Homer’s Iliad‚ The Odyssey. In one hand‚ Odysseus can be a hero. For example‚ he tricked the Cyclops Polyphemus by telling him his name was "nobody" and disguising his men as sheep‚ so that Polyphemus would accidentally let them out of his cave. However‚ in the other hand‚ Odysseus can’t be a hero. For example‚ because of his curiosity taking over him‚ Odysseus investigated the cave of the Cyclops. The results were
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Antigone and A Rasin in the Sun Antigone and A Raisin in the Sun are two pieces of literature that are similar in one way‚ yet very different in another way. Both are very interesting pieces that were written to captivate even the most critical of audiences. This paper will show similarities as well as differences between the two pieces and their authors. Antigone is a play written by Sophocles and is about a young girl named Antigone who struggles with written laws of her city‚ Thebes. Her
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Antigone: Protagonist or Misinterpreted Innocence? A literal “age old” argument that has sparked intelligent conversation since the BC era is still as potent as ever in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy‚ Antigone. Since the play’s origin‚ there has always been a toss-up as to who the true tragic hero‚ or protagonist‚ is. A popular misconception is that the character Antigone must be the protagonist due to her direct name being the title. Sophocles intends the play to highlight Antigone and her soon to
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Antigone Essay The Greek play by Sophocles; Antigone‚ tells a story of a sympathetic sister trying to bury her dead brother; Polyneices‚ but cannot because of the “evil” King Creon. Although‚ that is how the play seems instead‚ I see it as one person’s actions leading to series of events that end up making everyone’s day just miserable. The theme of this play is morality‚ which is what you personally think is right from wrong. In my opinion‚ Antigone’s morals were wrong for all the right reasons
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Odysseus is not a hero because he hasn’t done good things to make him deserve to be called a hero. Yes‚ he has done good things but then he has done some awful things to. Like steal things from people‚ kill in cold blood‚ be disloyal to his wife and cheat‚ and only think of himself and not others. So the main reason Odysseus is not a hero is that when athena told him that there are suitors in his house eating all his food and livestock he just decided to kill every single one of them so did his
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In the tragedy Antigone the main characters‚ Creon who is the king of Thebes and Antigone who is the daughter of the deceased king Oedipus‚ are fighting over Creon’s decision not to bury one of Antigone’s brothers Polyneices because he felt that he was a trader to his city but he was going to still bury her other brother Eteocles even though they died by the sword of each others hand in war over Thebes. Antigone chooses to disobey the law that Creon has set saying that nobody can bury Polyneices
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