...The issue of Odysseus loyalty is that no matter how hard or how much he desires to be loyal, most of times he is forced to do the opposite. When he gets to Calypso’s island, the sweet nymph, any man would want to stay because she offered him to become immortal. Only someone loyal to their desire to get back home would reject such a great offer, but only he who is loyal to home denied it, Odysseus. Even though he is loyal to his home and wants to go back, he is forced to stay with Calypso for seven years. Throughout those seven years very night he would weep because he was forced to stay there. Odysseus is trialed with many obstacles in his way home, but for ten years he did not lose hope and never gave up. He had to go through many losses of men and had to motivate them to keep on going to reach home. Even though all odds where against his favor he always kept thinking of one thing, home. He kept being faithful and kept true to himself maybe not physically but mentally and spiritually....
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...A focal subject in "The Odyssey" is loyalty. Odysseus' commitment to his family, his nation and his god is immovable. Along his trip, Odysseus has the chance to be unfaithful to his better half. This would disgrace his nation and disregard his convictions. “Despite the fact that he now and then flounders and some of his choices have negative results, his faithfulness, adore for his better half and want to return home never fades.” p.58 Odysseus also has solid values with regards to self-control and sexual allurement. Despite the fact that the excellent Sirens endeavor to draw him off base, he cautions his men of their alluring ways, connects himself to his ship so he won't stray and fills his group's ears with wax. He additionally shows discretion...
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...see that it is filled with heroism. Odysseus has been on a 20 year journey, trying to get himself and his crew home safely. He went through many obstacles, like facing monsters, while protecting the people he had brought with him, and himself. Through the character Odysseus, Homer shows that to be a true hero one must have loyalty, courage, and eloquence. Loyalty plays a big part in being a hero. Odysseus makes sure that no man is left behind. He knows when he and his crew get to Kirke’s house, that it is a trap. Even though his crew members don’t believe him, he still goes back to help them “Here in this house you turned my men...
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...Odysseus: An Epic Hero In The Odyssey written by Homer, the main character is Odysseus, an epic hero. He has to leave his home Ithaca, and ends up on a great voyage landing on many islands. All of which, is home to gods and goddesses, good and bad. Along the way he shows his very heroic characteristics, while battling these supernatural forces. For example when he fights the Cicones, the singing sirens, or even the one eyed beast. However ,Odysseus the great epic hero was still able to stay strong and proceed his way home. To begin, his loyalty is revealed by his crewman. He is almost like a big brother to them. His first sign of loyalty is revealed once he sees his undead crewman, Elpenor, left unburied on Circe's island. Elpenor has too much to drink, and ends up falling to his death. After, Elpenor falls, he asks Odysseus to return and bury him properly, so Odysseus ‘’...cut down timber on the foreland, on a high point, and built his pyre of logs’’ (209). Odysseus does not want one of his men to live unconsoled in the Land of the DEad, especially after he sees him face to face after his death. This is when he returns to...
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...In the epic “The Illustrated Odyssey”, by Joel Skidmore, and in the movie “The Odyssey”, directed by Andre Konchalovisky, they both focus on Odysseus’s 20-year journey battle in the Trojan war and his return home to Ithaca. First and foremost, in his absence and warnings to move on, Odysseus family remained loyal and true. His wife Penelope and his son Telemachus stayed loyal in many ways. Even though Odysseus was gone for 20 long and hard years, he had no reason to be concerned about his family. His son, his wife, and the great Greek hero himself showed a huge theme of loyalty throughout both the movie and the book. To begin with, Penelope was very loyal to Odysseus in many ways. Even after her own husband had demands for her to move...
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...As we are coming to the end of the Odyssey, Homer explains to the reader how Odyssey reestablishes his relationships with his son and wife. Because Odysseus left on a journey when Telemachus was just a baby, Telemachus’ relationship with his father almost does not exist until Odysseus returns home. It is clear that Telemachus has a lot of love and dedication for his father as he is overjoyed to see his father. He cried for a long time. Odyssey, on the other hand, seems calm and has a much more serious reaction when meeting his son for the first time in quite a while. The idea of a father and son relationships in general is an important concept in The Odyssey. We can see that Telemachus grows from a powerless child who will not take responsibility...
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...The Odyssey: Prompt Six Loyalty is a quality that’s earned through trust and love. It can be created from a relationship or acts of kindness and friendship. All of these types of loyalty are shown in The Odyssey, but the one that stands out the most is between Odysseus and Penelope. Throughout the stories they both long to be together, even when tempted to be unfaithful. In The Odyssey, Homer reveals the theme of loyalty using character’s actions and emotions; this becomes clear when Odysseus is determined to get home to his family. First of all, for twenty years Odysseus is away from his wife, Penelope, but throughout that time he is dedicated to her. When he is tempted with a beautiful woman, all he wants is to go home, “Though you wanted her forever,...
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...Immense loyalty between loved ones often proves tremendously painful. In Homer’s epic The Odyssey, devoted husband and wife are in the position to part for twenty years. While separate, they face challenges that possess enough power to make or break their relationship. Odysseus must stay faithful to Penelope while also doing what is necessary to ensure his arrival home. Meanwhile, Penelope is stuck living with persistent, selfish suitors who exploit their power over her. She has no choice but to allow their abhorrent behavior. In order to prove their loyalty and love, the two must make arduous sacrifices causing excruciating pain. Therefore, Homer highlights the value of loyalty in this epic through the painful sacrifices characters undertake...
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...Odysseus- A Good Leader? Sometimes people will claim that Odysseus was a bad leader, but I find that hard to believe. I do agree that he made some mistakes, but I still believe Odysseus was a good leader. Odysseus was a great warrior during the Trojan War, he showed extreme loyalty to his men, and he never allowed the many temptations he passed to stop him. Even if Odysseus was prideful at times, I continue to believe Odysseus was the best possible leader. First, Odysseus was a good leader during the Trojan War, where he was a general. He came up with the idea for the Trojan Horse, which ended up leading them to victory. “It was he, for example, who thought the famous wooden-horse trick that would lead to the downfall of Troy… That night the Greeks hidden inside the hollow belly came out, opened the gates of Troy to the whole Greek army and began the battle that was to win the war.” (An Introduction to the Odyssey) This proves that Odysseus is intelligent, as well as being a great general....
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...Odysseus lived in the late bronze age of the 13th century B.C and he played a major role in the Trojan War. He committed to fighting in the war and being away from his wife for 20 years. Odysseus’s idea of the Trojan horse helped the Greeks defeat Troy. I feel like Odysseus was a hero because of his contribution to the war, his idea of the wooden Trojan horse, and his loyalty in a spiritual and physical sense. Odysseus was a hero because of his contribution to the war. Without him, the Greeks would have had many complications during the fight. He first had an immense grudge on fighting in the war. An oracle told him that if he fought, he would fight for 20 years and return home as a beggar. He started to pretend he was mad so he started to plow his fields to avoid the war. Unfortunately, the Greeks weren’t going to accept Odysseus not being in the war. One day, Palamedes put his infant son in front of the plow and Odysseus finally gave up his grudge and contributed the next 20 years of his life to the war. Along with him joining, he persuaded Neoptolemus and Philoctetes to join in battle. Odysseus was a very reliant fighter....
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...In The Odyssey an epic poem by Homer, Odysseus, the protagonist has to fight through many trials to get home. He fights monsters, meets goddesses, and even brings back the dead in the ten tears he spends trying to get home. Throughout this perilous journey we develop a sense of what kind or a leader is to his men, his kingdom, and his wife Penelope. Odysseus is a strategic leader in hard times, a loyal leader to his kingdom and wife, but he is too prideful about his title and wit. There are several times throughout The Odyssey where Odysseus saves himself and his men because of his ability to strategize. The first example of this is when Odysseus faces Polyphemus the cyclops; he decides to blind him instead of killing him because Odysseus...
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...In this essay I will be comparing Odysseus and John McCain. While Odysseus displays hubris and John McCain is humble, both are great leaders because they are loyal and determined to improve their countries. Odysseus is filled with hubris is hard headed. McCain is more humble less likely to gloat and less likely to crack under emotional pressure. They both have some common traits but also opposing ones. McCain is obviously not as strong as Odysseus but Odysseus is obviously is not as stable as McCain mentally. Odysseus is a loyal hard working person. He may be full of himself but he still is a leader and he is still a strong man that cares greatly for his country and his people. He is by far the strongest physically at least. Odysseus is brave...
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...Achilles and Odysseus (An analogy of Achilles and Odysseus) The author Homer wrote about two very significant epic heroes. Those heroes were named Achilles and Odysseus. Achilles and Odysseus have many similarities along with differences. Homer wrote about these two specific epic heroes for a reason. Achilles plays a key role in The Iliad, whereas Odysseus has an essential role in The Odyssey. Achilles and Odysseus are the same in a sense where they both are war heroes, they both sexually use women, and neither of them think twice before killing somebody that wronged them in any way. Yet, they are both different wherein Odysseus is smart in many different ways and Achilles thinks very linearly, Achilles doesn’t look to get in fights whereas...
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...The Faithful Wife In Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Penelope is portrayed as a grieving woman who remains loyal to her husband, even though suitors pursue her. In the poem, Odysseus’ wife Penelope is a hopelessly lovesick person who still grieves over Odysseus, though she has not seen him in twenty years. When her son Telemachus comes home from a long journey, he is surprised to find that Penelope has not married any of the suitors that pursue her. Instead, she remains in “‘the women’s hall’”(line 973) because she mourns over Odysseus and refuses to marry any of the suitors. Penelope has never moved on from her husband even though many believe the time has come for her to do so. Furthermore, Penelope’s loyalty is also one of...
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...Though the minor characters Antinous and Eurymachus act as models of vice, eumaeus, Eurycleia, and pothinus are models of virtue that echo the values promoted by the epic, all contributing to the richness and depth to the Odyssey. Antinoos and Eurymachus are minor characters in the Odyssey, but they add lots of depth by their acts of vice throughout the story. Antinous is the leader among the suitors, he tends to drink lots of wine and eat Odysseus’s best cattle. Antinous seems to antagonize the crowd of suitors when beggar king Odysseus and beggar Irus fight. Antinoos through a in a reward, whoever wins the fight gets a blood sausage. Antinous says to Irus that if he loses he will be sent to King Echetus to be slaughtered and...
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