Comparing Sinuhe And The Odyssey

Home is the place everyone wants to return after being away. In The Odyssey written by Homer, a man named Odysseus wants to return home more than anything in the world. The poem has many epic themes including good and evil, life and death, and courage and honor. Notably, the most meaningful aspect is the importance of home. Odysseus' desire to return to his homeland and beloved family gives him the strength to overcome physical challenges and moral temptations.

Many years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still hasn’t returned home to Ithaka. Many believe that he is dead, but the author lets us know that he is being held as a sex captive on the goddess Kalypso’s island. Kalypso has no plans of letting him go to return home either.

After twenty long years away from his family, Odysseus still has motivation to return to Ithaca. Odysseus could have stayed with the princess of the Phaeacians, but instead he wants to go home to his family. Odysseus’ wife, Penelope and their son, Telemachus motivate Odysseus. Alkinoos offers Odysseus his daughter’s hand in marriage: “My daughter should be yours and you my son-in-law, if you remained. A home, lands, riches you should have from me if you could be content here” (Homer 120). Odysseus refuses the king’s offer: “O Father Zeus, let all this be fulfilled as spoken by Alkinoos! Earth of harvests remember him! Return me to my homeland” (120). Odysseus knows that his family has been waiting for him for years. The motivation to see his family and homeland help Odysseus win his battles and continue his journey home.

Odysseus’s journey home started when he was getting ready to set sail and leave Troy after the Trojan War. Odysseus shouts how he solved the war all by himself without any help from the gods. He is arrogant about their victory which angers Poseidon. Poseidon, along with other gods, curses his journey home.

Following the aftermath of the Trojan War, many heroes returned home. Odysseus was not one of them. His return to Ithaca was delayed by many years filled with violence. When he went back to Ithaca, he first appeared as a beggar. Odysseus entered his home for the first time under this guise, and undergoes multiple confrontations with many suitors. One of which was speaking to Amphinomus, revealing his plan to kill many of the

Every great hero in literature appears to be undefeatable, yet even the greatest Greek heroes such as Odysseus can be setback from their character flaws. Although not considered to be a legendary hero in Greek mythology, Kira Salak experiences her own journey while she embarks on an adventure down the Niger River. Salak’s determination is fueled by her aspiration to complete a daunting feat never once accomplished by humans. The odds are all against her, but “...when a person tells me I can’t do something, I’ll want to do it all the more” (Salak 422). Salak was apprehensive of what she would discover through her journey down the Niger River because “I

Odysseus, the King of Ithaca is trying to come home, after helping the Greeks win the Trojan War, by making the plan of the Trojan horse. Odysseus and his men struggle through their 10 year journey home and only with Odysseus’ trickery, bravery, and god honoring ways, he is able to make it back alive. Odysseus on his journey back home goes through some human flawed situations, but has many heroic moments. Odysseus overcomes these human flaws, making him become an Epic Hero.

Odysseus and his men have just reached the island the Cyclops lives on however, they do not know that this is Polyphemus’ island. “ The rest of you stand by; I’ll make the crossing in my own ship, with my own company” ( Homer 16-17). Odysseus is protecting his men by having the courage to tell his men to stand down, for he will see who is located on this island and whether it is safe or not. Odysseus is showing that he is a worthy and an superior leader by showing that he is courageous enough to take action himself. He shows no fear and that he is brave enough to risk his life over the lives of his men.

This metaphor is influenced by Odysseus' good and bad times on the sea. There are many instances where Odysseus faces struggles on the ocean. Whether Odysseus has to fight a huge storm like the one that washes him up on Kalypso's island or he has to elude dangerous monsters such as Skylla and the whirlpool Kharybdis on the sea, the ocean can be a very dangerous place. Odysseus also encounters times where the sea is very forgiving to him. The storm that washes him up to the land of Phaecia, a fairy-tale fantasyland, results in a safe and smooth passage home along with numerous treasures. He later states, 'To work in the service of life and living, in search of the answers of questions unknown.'; Odysseus spends many years on the sea at many different lands working in the service of the gods in search of answers to the health of his family and the possibility of a homecoming. Odysseus' long travels make him believe he is indeed searching for the unknown. The gods throw him all across the globe, but he finds very few answers. Another interpreted allusion deals with experiencing and growing. Denver sings, 'To be part of the movement and part of the growing.'; The obvious character in the Odyssey that

For literally thousands of years, Homer’s story, The Odyssey, has had people captivated by the story of a war general named Odysseus who is coming home from a war. Odysseus’s son, Telemachus, has not lived a normal life. He is a young man who has seen his father once on the first day he was born. He has been home with his mother, Penelope, on the Greek island Ithaca and has to deal with hundreds of men that raid his house called suitors. His father, Odysseus, has been gone for twenty years now and has finally, after years and years of searching for him, has given up hope.

Have you ever read a book that changed your life? The book Tuesdays with Morrie has many saying in it called aphorisms. Morrie has multiple of these, many of which have affected me. The three aphorisms that have affected me the most are “Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.”, “You’re not a wave, you are a part of the ocean.“, and “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“Monsters don’t sleep under the bed, they sleep inside your head.” When I was a child, I had a nightmare of being chased by the big bad wolf, and I was running trying to catch up with my parents who were driving away yelling at me to hurry up. Fear is a feeling that everyone has. Were all programmed with it. As kids get older they start to understand more and can tell the difference between real and pretend. When we experience fear, it can release adrenaline and dopamine which can make us excited and enjoy the thrill we feel when we experience scary things; which is why scary stories intrigue us. What role does transformation play in stories that are meant to scare us? Scary stories often involve transformation to elict fear.

Home is considered to be this place where you live permanently with your family, a place of comfort. When a character or a human for that matter embarks on a journey all they really long for is to return home to their family and loved ones. Thus, their homecoming is an important aspect to heroes in a fantastic journey. In the Epic poem The Odyssey performed by Homer and in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey we are able to obtain these very different notions of home. The main protagonists of each work have a different approach towards this notion of home. The protagonist Odysseus is constantly urging to return home to his family. In contrast, Dave, the protagonist is embarking on a journey in which he knows there is a big chance that he won’t

Odysseus’s strong desire to return to his family inspires foreign rulers to assist Odysseus in returning home. Odysseus states, “Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days— / to travel home and see the dawn of my return” to Calypso (5.242-234). Odysseus stayed with the goddess Calypso as her “unwilling lover” until he leaves on a raft (5.172; 179-187). Calypso grants Odysseus leave from her island because he is in grieving over being separated from his family. Odysseus lands in Phaeacia after leaving Calypso’s island. While begging for passage home, Odysseus says, “How far away I’ve been / from all my loved ones—how long I have suffered” (7.180-181). King Alcinous

Values and ethics are central to any organization. What exactly do we mean by values and ethics? Both are extremely broad terms, and we need to focus in on the aspects most relevant for strategic leaders and decision makers. What we will first discuss is the distinctive nature of ethics; second, we will take a look at work ethics; third we will look into strategic leadership and decision making; fourth we take a closer look into the positive and negative leadership climates and how they influence work ethics; fifth we will see the essence of participative management on ethical