Fagles is about Odysseus who is the king of Ithaca and his troubles with the Greek gods. Odysseus may be a good king but he is certainly not a very good leader when it comes to long journeys and battles. He made it home to Ithica but not without a lot of struggles and bad decisions. Odysseus’ selfishness‚ anger‚ and stubbornness were a part of his not too great leadership throughout the Odyssey. He did not protect his men very well. A leader needs to also be a team player and Odysseus did not show
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After Odysseus and his men escape from the cave of Cyclops‚ they went back to their boat. They freak out‚ because some of their companions are packing up and getting ready to leave. Some of the men we’re shocked when they saw Odysseus and his men back‚ safe and alive. They were curious about what happen to them inside the cave. Use the past tense in this paragraph. “Oh Odysseus and the others are back! They did not died!” one of the men shouted when he saw them walking from far away. “Odysseus welcome
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Odysseus portrays himself as a leader who is courageous‚ confident‚ good hearted and uses his intellect to get himself out of tough situations. Through his various adventures he demonstrated these qualities‚ like the time the white goddess seen Odysseus in trouble and said to him “take off your clothes and abandon your raft” (345). He did not listen because in the past the gods have schemed against him before and the outcome did not turn out well. Therefore he used what he knew about their ways and
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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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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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Odyssey which is the story of Odysseus. Odysseus a Greek Hero who fought in the Trojan War for ten years and was gone from home for another ten years. One place Odysseus traveled to was Cyclops island where Odysseus met Polyphemus. Polyphemus was a cyclops that shows how Odysseus’ life changed and how Odysseus is a hero with a lesson to learn. Odysseus made some clever choices with Polyphemus but other choices lead to nothing but destruction and pain. Throughout Odysseus’ journey he is reminded of the
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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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the most important trait to have when you are an epic hero. I will be telling you why cunning is the most important trait to have. I will be showing you examples of how Odysseus displayed these traits throughout his journey. In the paragraph I will tell how the examples displayed him being cunning. My first example of how Odysseus displayed a cunning act is his encounter with the Cyclopes. When he thought to blind the Cyclopes rather than to kill the Cyclopes was a very good example of how he displayed
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It is common knowledge that Odysseus is considered to be a Greek hero‚ some would even say that he is the one ideal hero of ancient Greece. Yet what is the criteria that puts Odysseus as one of the great Greek heroes? One thing many definitions had for a Greek hero was that they were from divine ancestry‚ favored by the gods‚ and have had the skill to complete their journey successfully. In The Odyssey by Homer‚ Odysseus has fulfilled being demi-god‚ being favored by the gods and mainly showing that
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Character Analysis: Odysseus Smart‚ yet Arrogant In books 9-12 of Homer’s The Odyssey‚ Odysseus shows three prominent character traits: quick-wittedness‚ hubris‚ and self control. Odysseus has gone down in stories and history books for his life-saving quick-wittedness. An example of his quick thinking is in the scene where Odysseus and a few of his men are trapped in Polyphemus’‚ a cyclopes‚ cave and Odysseus devises a cunning plan to help them escape. He gives Polyphemus all the liquor he
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