Examples Of Arrogance In The Odyssey

tragic flaw. While he contributed to his own downfall, Oedipus was not entirely responsible for it.

A hero is someone who is humble and protects others. Hero’s also show leadership. This story comes from Prentice Hall Literature on page 980 “The Odyssey” by Homer. Odysseus departs from Troy after being in the Trojan war for twenty years. Odysseus shows many heroic traits throughout this story. For Example, Odysseus showed intelligence when he tricked the Cyclops named Polyphemus, son of Poseidon and blinded him. Odysseus also showed leadership when he motivated his team to keep on rowing towards Scylla and Charybdis. Finally, Odysseus showed determination when he conquered all his obstacles and still survived even though he lost his team.

In the latter, however, some of his more ignoble traits are revealed: he is a braggart, he almost dishonorably uses poisoned arrows, and he shows conceit in his victory over the Cyclops. It is sometimes difficult to reconcile this man with the one who willingly gives up eternal life for the moral condition and the chance to return to his wife. Largely, the problems with understanding the moral position of Odysseus stem from his immense experience and cleverness, which make him at once mortal and fantastic.

Arrogance and pride have caused people to commit regrettable acts such as a variety of evil deeds. However, these acts often bring disaster back on the individual. The Odyssey is an epic, which is a long narrative poem, usually of ancient oral tradition, that begins in media res and usually details the journeys and adventures of a hero or legendary character. This epic describes Odysseus’ ten-year journey from the Trojan War home to Ithaca, where he is the rightful king. Hubris, which is excessive arrogance and pride, is very common. In the Odyssey, the characters that display hubris in the story are eventually doomed and often die because of their behaviors, while those who have less undesirable qualities are favored. Three such characters are Antinous, Melanthius, and Odysseus. Antinous is one of the most hubristic characters in the entire book.

When people think of a hero, they think of a tall, handsome, loyal, brave, and a type of man that could do no wrong. The “hero” that is portrayed in the Odyssey is a man named Odysseus. This “hero” may be tall and handsome, but he is often arrogant, disrespectful, conceited, and rude. Odysseus consists of positive and negative characteristics that is shown in the text by Homer. These characteristics impact the characters day to day, or in the book’s case, the quests. In the Odyssey, Homer values the characteristics hospitality and cunning, but he objects bad leadership.

Odysseus arrogantly does not think of the safety of his men and does not listen to them, only caring to annoy the Cyclops and to take the credit for blinding him. This shows his pride and his only care, to expand his legacy. By doing so, Poseidon curses his journey and makes it tougher for him to return

Thanks to some quick thinking from Odysseus, he manages to blind the cyclops so he and his remaining crew can escape. After getting away from the cyclops, he turns back to the cyclops and tells him who he is. He said that his name was Odysseus and that he lives in Ithaca. After hearing this, the cyclops prays to Poseidon, the father of all cyclops, to get revenge on Odysseus for blinding him. Though there are no immediate effects, this causes trouble for Odysseus later on. He gained

While Odysseus is very smart, and is very good at thinking on his feet, he often finds himself becoming over confident which

Odysseus’ hubris played a negative role when Odysseus revealed his identity to Polyphemus. Odysseus and his crew had just managed to escape from the Cyclops, Polyphemus, after driving a stake into his eye. But then, Odysseus told the blinded Cyclops his identity by shouting, “Cyclops – if any man on the face of the earth should ask you who blinded you, shamed you so- say Odysseus, raider of cities, he gouged out you eye, Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca” (9, 558-562). Odysseus managed to tell Polyphemus his name, father, and home. Polyphemus then prayed to Poseidon, his father, to get revenge on Odysseus. Poseidon ended up killing Odysseus’ entire crew and delaying Odysseus for 10 years. None of those terrible consequences would have happened if Odysseus had suppressed his enormous pride. Odysseus’ hubris resulted in a lot of suffering for many people. Odysseus’ hubris prevents Odysseus and his crew from getting back to Ithaca again when Odysseus did

Throughout the epic poem Odysseus displays the quality arrogance through the way he acts when dealing with difficult situations harm his men. For instance,

Imagine being a crewmate on a ship and you are being attacked by a monster and you are trying to get away from that monster. You get away but the leader of the ship keeps heckling the monster and the father of the monster then gets angry and attacks. You and the rest of the crew are either dead or badly wounded. Like this hero, Odysseus shows these traits in the Odyssey. Odysseus is the opposite of a modern hero because he is full of himself, he always gets into bad situations and is not loyal to his men.

In book eight Odysseus says, “‘All others I declare I far surpass, all that are living now and eating bread on earth’” (Homer 93). From this, the reader can infer through Odysseus’ actions that he is very confident and full of himself as he declares he is better than all others. Furthermore, this behavior can be a major deterrent to anyone working with him, such as his crew, and could cause major problems later in the story. Early into Odysseus’ perspective entering the story, he has already proven to have a lousy attitude, and the reader can infer that his arrogance will show up more as the story

Odysseus shows us the true meaning of leadership throughout the Odyssey.In the Odyssey, Odysseus decides to step up and take charge in many aspects of their journey. For example, ”The rest of you loyal friends stay here, while I and my crew take ship and try and find out who these men are,”( Odyssey Book IX 152-192). This shows his leadership because he is ordering the other people to stay by the boat so they can stay safe. Another piece of evidence is,”I ordered the men to cast lots as to which of them should dare to help me raise the stake and twist it into the Cyclops’ eye when sweet sleep took him,”(Odyssey Book IX 307-359). Through Odysseus words, we can tell he is taking charge so they all can return to safety because he cares about them.

For starters, Odysseus is described as a man of twists and turns. Although he does possess extraordinary strength as proven by his victory at Troy and his ability to string his bow in one try, Odysseus actually relies more on his mind to get through the obstacles thrown at him. Take Polyphemus for example. When he and his crew are trapped in the Cyclops’s cave, Odysseus knows that he could not overpower the giant. He also knew that he would not be able to move the boulders aside to open reveal the entrance, as it was too heavy. He justifies this

        The first thing as a tragic hero that Oedipus has is tragic flaws. Within the play Oedipus displays two tragic flaws, his pride, and his arrogance, and determination. Tiresias, the oracle predicted to Oedipus that he would in