Odysseus is the hero that appears in The Odyssey‚ Homer’s epic about Odysseus’s 10 year struggle to return home after the end of the Trojan War. In this epic‚ Odysseus battles mythical creatures and endures the wrath of the gods. All while being the epic hero of the story. Being the protagonist of this epic‚ Odysseus has many qualities that make him the hero. Odysseus has the standard qualities that make him a hero; strength‚ bravery‚ courage‚ nobility. He is also the embodiment of the standards
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In The Odyssey‚ there are several decisions that Odysseus makes throughout his adventures. The first decision is when he forcibly stopped his men from eating the lotus plant to avoid major problems. When Odysseus and the group finally arrived at the land of Lotus-eaters‚ he sent a few of his men to check the place and what food the people are willing to offer for them to eat. Because of his actions‚ he made a huge mistake. The natives provided lotus plants for the men to eat‚ and it made them very
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when facing Odysseus. Although he may only the size of a human‚ Odysseus can handle much more then he would seem‚ being a man full of smart decision making‚ leadership‚ and bravery ; these traits validate Odysseus’s title of a ¨hero¨. Odysseus is typical brave type of person that underestimates a situation then ends up putting himself and his crew into some threatening situations‚ but unlike others‚ he manages to get out of them. Odysseus will stand up to anyone who comes in his path. Right
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the Odyssey. Yet‚ why are Odysseus and Aeneas so unlike one another? The answer is that the authors lived in two different worlds‚ whose values and perceptions varied greatly of a fundamental level. Greek culture and literature had a great dominating influence over Roman life‚ therefore‚ the influence of style and the stories written by Virgil adopted many of the old Greek ways. However‚ Virgil did not imitate‚ he gave a new meaning to the works that he borrowed and added his own thoughts and opinions
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outsider and his family in The Black Snow‚ by Paul Lynch. The opening words‚ “It was the beginning of darkness”‚ foreshadow the troubled arc of the narrative. When Barnabas Kane returns from the United States to his roots in Donegal‚ he is charged with optimism. But life turns brutally cruel when the family’s barn goes up in flames‚ trapping inside both their cows and their farmhand. Barnabas is heartened when his neighbors join in trying to extinguish the blaze‚ but he is alienated when his requests
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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 fight against injustice and immorality” (Baker‚ 9)‚ Odysseus had to spend years of his lifetime “Fighting monsters‚ avoiding the Sirens‚ consulting the dead and even falling into the lily-white arms of Calypso” (Lacarriére
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story because it shows how a little boy had courage when he was growing up. From the beginning to the end How his life exspan from the top to the bottom. This shows courage by letting the readers know you should have courage pg 671 line 20 it says.”Your courage was a small coal.” this all shows how he had big courage. There are two different types of Journeys. One is The Adventures of Odysseus. The other one is The Return. This difference between these two is that all the bad things happen to them that
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Jones is most like the epic hero Odysseus of The Odyssey. The four epic heroes we have studied in class are completely different in the way that they go about their journeys and trials. Though‚ despite these drastic differences‚ all share at least one character trait with Indiana Jones‚ whether it be a search for balance between good and evil‚ a drive to finish what has been started‚ a more human nature‚ or meeting opposition along the way. However‚ it is Odysseus that most closely resembles Jones
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their journey and had the strength and courage to solve or address the problem. Odysseus is an epic hero because he possesses the traits of that of a hero. He had the intelligent idea of the Trojan horse and made the Greeks win the Trojan war. After all‚ he survived the likes of Poseidon‚ the cyclops‚ the lotus eaters etc. And after his courageous journey he returned to Ithaca and restored piece in the island. Odysseus is very clever. According to J.Hunter‚ ’’He was the originator of the trojan
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Odysseus is an enigma. His disguises hide him in the battlefield and his lies mask him everywhere else. Such deceits are so frequently seen in Homer`s Odyssey that it is difficult to even know where the truths end and the lies begin‚ or even if there is an implied truth in a whole conversation. Furthermore‚ the conversations themselves seem to easily embrace the alluring veils and it is hard to find a single conversation that does not withhold the truth‚ or is not lies or is not heavily reliant of
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