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    Hades In The Odyssey

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    cannot be completed without said hero facing great dangers. The ultimate danger lies within death; the worst failure in a journey is when the hero falls to the fiery grasp of Hell. Much like Odysseus – a Greek hero whose tale can be found in The Odyssey

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    Fate In The Odyssey

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    Fate in The Odyssey In Homer?s The Odyssey‚ fate plays an important part in the story development. People who believe in fate or destiny think that their lives are spun out in front of them before they are born‚ and there is nothing they can do to change that. Some characters‚ like Polyphemos‚ find out their fate beforehand but still end up fulfilling prophesies they tried to avoid‚ but most characters acted out their fate without realizing it‚ like Odysseus. He blinded the Cyclops without knowing

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    Free Will In The Odyssey

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    The Odyssey What is the nature of free will? Are gods or humans responsible for what happens? The Odyssey is a poem which is about a man named Odysseus (also known as Ulysses in Roman myths) who is on his way back to Ithaca where his home is with his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus but is said to be dead. Telemachus goes on hunt for Odysseus because he believes his father is still alive. On Odysseus’ way back to Ithaca he goes through many challenges such as defeating the Cyclops‚ Sirens

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    Analysis of Storytelling: Discovering Ones Identity and Purpose in Life Storytelling plays an important role in characterizing important figures in stories as giving personalities and traits specific to them. It also drives the plot‚ as in Homer’s The Odyssey and Virgil’s The Aeneid the epics are based on the telling of the protagonist’s journey. Another piece of literature‚ Grendel‚ written by John Gardner‚ utilizes storytelling in a different manner. The main character bases his self-understanding off

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    Men In The Odyssey

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    to their family name. This is evident in two famous Greek literatures‚ a Greek poem called “The Odyssey” by Homer and a Greek play called “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles. In these two Greek literatures the men in these stories will be living the life of a Greek man going to through a journey that will seal their fate‚ a fate that would stay with their names forever and make them

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    Flaws In The Odyssey

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    inflicted upon your eye this shameful blinding‚ tell him that you were blinded by Odysseus‚ sacker of cities. Laertes is his father‚ and he makes his home on Ithaca” (Homer 500-505). Homer’s work of historical fiction‚ The Odyssey‚ is the sequel to his earlier story The Iliad. The Odyssey follows Odysseus after the events of the 10 year Trojan war and his long journey home. He clashes with many monsters and it always seems that his pride gets the better of him. The quote above is Odysseus bragging to Polyphemus

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    Odyssey and Telemachus

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    Telemachus‚ son of Odysseus is a main character in the book the Odyssey. Throughout books 1-4 Telemachus begins to discover who he is. Not having a father as a child severely affects Telemachus. He becomes a timid‚ shy boy who is pampered by his mother. Although Telemachus is the son of a world-famous father‚ it does not help him in anyway. In the beginning‚ when the suitors are eating away Telemachus’ fortune‚ all he does is whine. It is not until Telemachus receives divine attention that he matures

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    Women of the Odyssey

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    Figuratively speaking‚ the Odyssey is a story created and controlled by women‚ and consequently‚ the plot revolves around the actions of women. The women in the poem could be divided up into two major groups: the seductresses‚ such as Circe‚ the sirens‚ and Calypso‚ who attempt to hinder or stop Odysseus from reaching his home‚ and helpers‚ such as Nausicaa‚ Arete‚ and perhaps most importantly Athena‚ who all aid Odysseus in his homecoming. These two sides of “help” and “hinder” are clearly separated

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    Gary‚       I enjoyed thoroughly reading your insightful monologue. You stated‚ "A lack a Christian perceives should be filled with nothing besides God. When a person‚ Christian in particular‚ seeks God will all their heart‚ soul‚ and mind‚ they will find God to be everything their soul desires. Before one looks elsewhere‚ they should remember the story of Eve in the garden and her conversation with the serpent‚ and how that turned out." I utterly concur with your ideology. My presupposition is

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    Love In The Odyssey

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    The purity of love appears as pure as the actors that are required to perform it. Donne borrows inspiration from the Homeric epic The Odyssey and patterns of Ovidian lyric to express both disappointment and frustration due to its impurity‚ stemming from the goal accomplished through bodily reality. While Donne is able to attain love through its consummation‚ he expresses conflict in attempting to avoid deviation from the pursuit of love caused by a woman’s features in Love’s Progress‚ which draw

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