Examples Of Hesitation In The Odyssey

When escaping from Polyphemus, Odysseus has to make the smart decision to “sling a man under each middle” (207) sheep. His decision saves him and his men from death (HOW?). This conflict shows that Odysseus can make smart decisions quickly and under pressure. If this choice was not made, he and his men would be killed by the cyclops

The Hero’s Journey, as defined by Joseph Campbell, is a set of stages a protagonist must undergo to reinter into his known and normal world after facing many challenges. One specific challenge the hero must face is described as the Supreme Ordeal, which is the moment the greatest fear is confronted. In The Odyssey, Odysseus must kill the suitors who took over his household to reach the next stage of his journey. As Odysseus slaughters the suitors in the hall of his home in Book 22, not only does he enter the Supreme Ordeal stage of the Hero’s Journey to face his greatest fear, but also is one phase closer to reintegrating with society.

In the book ‘The Odyssey” the author assembled a paradoxical tone through his choice of diction. The word paradoxical means “having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.” The author used the words: Dawn, appease and Nobody to display the paradoxical tone in the book.

In the Odyssey, specifically in the short story “Sailing from Troy,” Odysseus and his men are blown to the shore of Cicones due to a gust of wind created by Zeus. Once landed on the coast they began killing the men, and enslaving the women of Cicones. After the raid of their goods, Odysseus’ men had disobeyed Odysseus by slaughtering sheep and caused two prisoners to escape. Which consequently led to the prisoners bringing the Cicones’ army to attack Odysseus and his men. This caused many men to be killed.

Throughout The Odyssey, the author, Homer, recounts upon tales told to him by elders. The Odyssey explains the journeys Odysseus and his crew go through in order to get back to their homeland, Ithaca, after fighting a ten year battle in Troy. Homer consistently uses forlorn diction to create a desperate tone. In The Odyssey, Odysseus overcomes the call of the sirens.

Being brave requires massive strength of mind, body, and spirit. It is being prepared to face adversity. It allows people to face their greatest enemies without fear. Out of all of the characteristics that Odysseus portrays, bravery stands out above all. There are many cases in which this shows up in The Odyssey by Homer. Specific examples that represent Odysseus's bravery are the battle of Cicones, the events at the cyclops cave, and the events with the lotus eaters.

In The Odyssey, Odysseus demonstrates the qualities of a poor leader because his arrogance and pride interferes with his judgement to make wise wisdoms, thus putting his entire crew in danger. When Odysseus and his crew escape the one-eyed cyclops, Polyphemus, Odysseus is overcome with triumph as he and his deceived the cyclops by securing themselves to the stomachs of the monster’s flock of sheep. His escape plan proved successful, and he then proceeded to untie his men from the grazing sheep, and make haste to their ship. Odysseus taunts Polyphemus as he and his crew begin to sail away. “You shameless cannibal (IX.534),” said Odysseus to the cyclops, who became filled with rage. Odysseus’s crew sense the will of Polyphemus to wreck havoc, and thus, ask

Diction is defined as enunciation in speaking and writing. It can change the way in which you interpret a story and helps set the vision that an author wants the reader to see when reading his or her story. Homer used diction is the Odyssey to establish the time frame and the setting that the story is set in. The Odyssey is not set in a modern day time period, so Homer used diction to make the reader feel like they are reading the memoir of a man from Greece in 650 bc.

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection,” said Thomas Paine. This quote by Thomas Paine means someone who is of good nature sees trouble they become brave. Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, agrees with this quote because whenever Odysseus sees trouble he can make a plan and becomes brave. His plans show how in great danger he can become brave and find a way through. The minor characters are played major roles in revealing Odysseus’s heroic traits such as bravery, trickery, loyalty.

Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus has the tendency to be a narcissistic, selfish and inconsiderate leader towards his men. When Odysseus and his men finally escaped certain death from the giant cyclops, Polyphemus, the not-so-heroic king of Ithaca shouted a taunt above the pleas of his aghast crew, towards the blinded cyclops. He yelled to the enraged cyclops,”If any man on the face of the earth should ask you who blinded you, shame you so--say Odysseus(Homer IV. 558-560).” With this reproachful act of arrogance, Polyphemus, son of the wrathful Poseidon, cried out to his father, praying that Odysseus' travels be cursed and that he would return home a “broken man” and with “all shipmates lost(IV. 593).” This event shows how he is too unworthy

After Odysseus and his men are on the boat, he calls out to Polyphemus, “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 your eye, Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca”(IX). His pride from escaping the Cyclops’s lair gives him a rush which causes him to tell Polyphemus his name. By telling the Cyclops his name, Odysseus seals his fate for the rest of his journey home. Once Polyphemus learns the name of his attacker, “,,,[Polyphemus] prayed and the god of the sea-blue mane Poseidon heard his prayer”(IX). Polyphemus is able to curse Odysseus’ journey home, because he knows his name. Once he curses Odysseus, the man’s way home becomes distorted, drawn-out, and difficult. Because Odysseus lets his pride get the better of him, his simple journey home becomes years of twists and

Both Odysseus and I have shown self restraint. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is first showing self restraint when he realizes that if he kills the cyclops he and his men would be trapped. So instead of killing the cyclops he decides to get him drunk and while the cyclops is sleeping Odysseus stabs the cyclops eye and blinds him. The second time Odysseus show’s self restraint is when Odysseus and his friends are going past the sirens. He has his men tie him down so when they pass the sirens Odysseus won’t leave the ship and forget all about his friends.

Each word read in a story can show a meaningful attitude toward a certain subject. In the Odyssey, Homer uses diction such as the words mustered and appease to express a reflective and suspenseful tone.

Odysseus has a sense of hubris that leads to adversity and causes him harm, he also has humility; however, the lack of balance between these emotions takes Odysseus through many tough obstacles. When Odysseus tricks Polyphemos, he does it logically, and he uses his mind and reason; however, his hubris comes out when he feels the need to expose his true identity thus leading to his difficulty to return to Ithaka and future problems. Odysseus’s men beg him to stop harassing the beast, but Odysseus has one other plan in mind when he says, “Kyklops / … Odysseus raider of cities, took your eye: / Laertes’ son, whose home’s on Ithaka!” (Homer 160). This provoking of Polyphemos that Odysseus displays is a cause for the pain Ithaka is going though, as well as personal and direct grieving directed at Odysseus and his immediate

Odysseus thinks that his reasoning are final and his activities are constantly just and right, although he frequently allows his ego control his rational thinking, resulting harm to his group and messing with the gods’s plans. His men could have went back home Securely for it is the desire of Athena and the other heavenly gods who surround to her in Mount Olympus, however Odysseus takes it to himself to outrage and blind Polyphemus, the monstrous son of Poseidon, adored by his dad yet abhorred by the people, In this way distrusting their whole arrangement . Subsequent to being blinded by the heroine, Polyphemus tosses huge pieces of rocks at Odysseus's ship, nearly obliterating them at the same time. But instead of retreating for safety, Odysseus keeps on provoking Polyphemus and “[calls] out to the cyclopes again, with [his] men hanging all over [him] begging him not to”(Book 9, 491-492). His feeling of pride and presumption influences to disregard the requests of his people even in these critical circumstances . He will fulfill his own feeling of interest and pleasure without thinking of the result it would have on his crew. Despite the fact that he is bound to get away from all passings and assaults, his group isn’t so blessed. Their lives are in mortal peril since Odysseus considers them as child sheeps who should forfeit their lives for him when the circumstances comes, much the same as how mortals make conciliatory offerings of sheeps for the heavenly gods. He is willing to fulfill his own feeling of interest without thinking of his groups lives or their suppositions and is regularly infuriated when they negate his request. If they hurt his sense of pride and self-importance and pomposity , Odysseus will be overcome with outrage and