name teacher English 14 March 2012 The ( Astonishing / Astounding / Outstanding ) Odyssey In the beginning of the movie‚ Odysseus ’s only son is born‚ Telemachus. Soon after though‚ Greece is at war with Troy‚ and the kings Agamemnon and Menalayes come to Ithica to force him to help fight in the war. He is forced to leave his new born son and wife‚ Penelope. Before he goes though‚ he tells her that she must marry if Telemachus has a beard and Odysseus has not returned. On his way towards
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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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The Odyssey Moral Values The Odyssey by Homer uses Odysseus’ 10-year journey home from the Trojan War to illustrate some of the most important moral values of book. The moral values in the story include loyalty‚ compassion‚ self-control and perseverance. Each one has a tale or two associated with it. Loyalty is an important moral value in The Odyssey because Odysseus is devoted to his family. He is determined to return home to his wife despite all of the obstacles in his way. Odysseus stayed
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After reading this book‚ I realized that I already use a lot of the things that Focazio focuses on. I decided I would use this assignment to reveal what I do when I’m not being a fulltime student. Since I can remember‚ I was raised to be a super hero. I was raised in a life where magic wasn’t a myth and extraordinary powers were a common everyday thing. I decided to go through things in the book I liked a lot and relate them to things I’ve learned from becoming the hero that I am today. I’ll
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An Epic hero Epic heroes are characters in an old poem or story that people can relate to for admire. In the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer‚ Odysseus is that epic hero. Odysseus faced many difficult situations as an epic hero‚ and made some bad decisions as an ordinary man‚ both which show his strengths and weaknesses. One part of the poem that shows how Odysseus is an epic hero was when he sharpened an olive tree and jabbed it in Polyphemus’s lonely one eye‚ so him and his
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Tina Huang HRS 119 Professor Shinbrot January 19‚ 2016 Many cultural values are transmitted and discovered within myths‚ especially in the story‚ The Odyssey written by Homer. The Odyssey continues from the events of the The Illiad‚ focusing on Odysseus after the Trojan War and his long journey back home to Ithaca‚ to his wife Penelope and his son‚ Telemachus. Throughout the ten year journey‚ Odysseus faces many hardships and while doing so‚ he learns more about himself and the human condition
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The adventures continue. In the beginning of this book‚ Odysseus returns to Aeaea and buries his friend‚ Elpenor‚ like he so persistently requested. He also returns in order to spend one last night with his sporadic lover‚ Circe. Throughout his visit‚ she informs him of the difficult challenges coming his way in his trip back home as well as how to paramount them. Setting sail‚ he shares her advice with his crewmates. Arriving at the home of the Sirens‚ flying creatures whose sweet songs would
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In literature‚ the theme of identity has been explored in many distinct ways. From “Hamlet” to “The Odyssey‚” characters have always struggled to discover who they really are in relation to the rest of their world. Most characters go through a personal journey and eventually discover who they are and what their purpose is. Other times‚ characters are left without a sense self and fail to establish themselves as individuals. However‚ sometimes these characters are not fictional‚ revealing how real
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Women play a significant role in the text that forms an important part of The Odyssey‚ an epic written by Homer in the 7th century B.C. Within the poem there are three basic types of women: the goddess‚ the seductress‚ and the good hostess/wife. Each role helps to create a different kind of element and is essential to the completion of the story. The first female in the Odyssey to be seen in full effect is the beautiful goddess. Although she is a supernatural being in all of the epic poem she
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Everyone knows and loves the fairytale “Cinderella” where Cinderella starts out as a maid‚ wearing nothing but rags‚ and doing nothing but chores. She desires to go to this ball‚ but her nasty stepmother sends her to work right away‚ without allowing her to go. Fortunately for Cinderella‚ her fairy Godmother transforms her into a beautiful princess and lets her go to the ball‚ where she meets the price of her dreams. He is astonished by her beauty and in the end of the fairytale they fall in love
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