Heroes are defined as people who help and save people. It could also be defined as someone who goes on a dangerous adventure with many obstacles that the person has to surmount. Heroes are everywhere. Odysseus is the hero of the “Odyssey” by a blind poet, Homer. Odysseus fights in Trojan War for 10 years and it took him another decade for him to get home. He had to pass many hardships to get to his homeland Ithaca. The three main stages in Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey” that exemplified in Homer’s The Odyssey are the crossing of the first threshold,the road of trials, and freedom to live.
For example, Joseph Campbell describes that the crossing of the first threshold is the hero which is Odysseus who is accompanied by the guide which is Athena, the goddess of wisdom goes beyond the boundaries of his or his everyday, enter the wilderness, and has the first encounter with …show more content…
After Odysseus slaughters the suitors, he then made the disloyal maids clean up the suitors and then hangs them. Odysseus then cleans himself and went to see Penelope but she is doubt the fact that Odysseus finally returns. Penelope test Odysseus by telling his nurse to move the bed but Odysseus told her not to. He said that the bed couldn't be moved because it was built on a tree and that the only people that know that was him and her. (23:461:198) “Come, Eurycleia, move the sturdy bedstead out of the bridal chamber.”Penelope realizes that the stranger was actually Odysseus and was overjoyed to see him. Odysseus tells Telemachus that Penelope had finally wedded a suitor in order for the other suitors family to take revenge. This time Odysseus was cursed by any of the gods except Poseidon who is still angering that Odysseus poked his Polyphemus’ eye, turned the Phaeacian ship that he was on to stone. (13:291:169) “But now I’ll crush that fine Phaeacian cutter on the misty