Examples Of Loyalty In The Odyssey

The main character of the story is Ulysses he is king of Ithaca he has a wife named Penelope and a son named Telemachus.Ulysses is known for his homecoming which took him 20 years to get home.Today I am gonna be writing about the theme of the Odyssey.The theme is loyal, I will be providing examples why the theme is loyal in the following paragraphs.

Odysseus returns to Ithaca in the disguise of a beggar, with the help of the Goddess, Athene. As a beggar he can go about the people and see who has been loyal and who has not. Odysseus is able to learn that Antnous and Eurymachus have led the wooers in many evil acts. He also learns that some of Penelope’s handmaids have been disloyal to her. With the help of Athene, Telemachus, Eumaeus, Philoetiud and Eurycleia he plots his revenge.

Odysseus tells Athena, whom he believes is a shepherd, a false account, of how he came to Ithaca, primarily since he needs to keep his identity a secret, familiarize himself with the situation on Ithaca and formulate a plan to execute the suitors. He perceives that he has arrived in a mist-shrouded and unknown land. And thus secondarily, he needs to present a feasible reason for being alone and stranded with copious amounts of treasure for safety reasons as well as to allay suspicion in relation to his identity. Athena affects how he tells his lie because he can see and listen to her. To manipulate her more effectively, Odysseus exploits these factors to produce a story specifically tailored to the information Athena provides.

Just imagine you get classmates, teammates, and co workers out of trouble or bad situations constantly, but they show you any loyalty. In the book The Odyssey By Homer, the main character Odysseus runs into conflicts with his crew when they are at Troy fighting and when they are trying to come home back to Ithaca. His crew has many reasons to be loyal to him but sometimes they aren't and don’t respect Odysseys. Odysseus deserves loyalty from his crew because he gets his men out of tough situations, he won the war in troy, and he got he min from pigs back to humans.

One of the phases in Athena’s plan involves getting Odysseus off of Calypso’s island. In order to do so, she argues in front of the Olympian court, convincing Zeus to send Hermes to Calypso. Following Zeus’s orders, Hermes delivers a message to Calypso that instructs, “… Zeus commands you to send him off with all good speed: it is not fate to die here, far from his loved ones, reach his high-roofed house, his native land at last” (Homer 156). With Athena’s help, Calypso grants Odysseus freedom from her tropical prison. Without Athena’s loyalty and determination, Odysseus would have never left Calypso’s and Polyphemus’ island to continue on his journey

Loyalty is easily one of the most obvious themes in the Odyssey. Several of the characters have varying levels of loyalty. This loyalty may be weak, strong, or even nonexistent. Some of the most loyal characters appeared when Odysseus returned back home, because most of them didn’t even know if he were still alive, yet they held out faith for his return. Odysseus’ family is particularly loyal, but they aren’t the only loyal ones when he returns home.

The Odyssey is a 3,200 year-old epic poem written by Homer. The poem has many themes including hospitality, vengeance, and loyalty. These themes combined are what make the Odyssey so relevant today. One of the most important themes that comes into play in The Odyssey is the theme of loyalty. The theme is used throughout Odysseus’ journey and even after the journey is over.

Another character that was loyal to Odysseus is Athena, the goddess of wisdom, aided and stayed loyal to Odysseus through his journey in the Odyssey. By persuading Zeus and the Olympian court that the time has come for Odysseus to be set free from Calypso, a sea nymph who detained Odysseus for seven years, and should be reunited with Telemachus Odysseus’ son (Athena's Assistance,2). Next, Athena inspires Telemachus to embark on a journey to seek information about his father. She disguises herself as Mentor, an old friend of Odysseus, giving Telemachos hope that his father is still alive and that the only way to find out the truth about his return is to go search for him personally (3). Without Athena’s persistence Odysseus would never have been able to leave Calypso’s island to continue on his journey back to Ithaca . By arguing in front of the Olympian court, Athena convinces Zeus to send Hermes, a messenger of the gods, to Calypso’s island and instructs Calypso that the time has come for her to release Odysseus from her

Loyalty is an essential value to Odysseus. One way Odysseus was loyal in the story was he stayed loyal to his homeland, Ithaca. Odysseus even said: “Rough years then lie between you and your homecoming, alone and old, the one survivor, all companions lost”(12.107-106). He kept trying to return home and overcame all the obstacles set forth by the Gods and Goddesses. Another example is Penelope, she is loyal to Odysseus by tricking and cunning her way out of remarrying, even after ten years. She stayed faithful, by saying she would remarry once she has finished weaving, but then would unravel her days work at night. Another example of loyalty is when Telemachus goes searching for his father, staying loyal to his family, even though he has never met his father. Telemachus doesn’t even know who Odysseus is but remains faithful to his family and father.

What does the word loyalty mean to you? Well to me loyalty means caring and never giving up on someone or something. It also stands for commitment, and in the book The Odyssey, loyalty is shown in many way, through love, through fighting, and through waiting. Odysseus wife, Penelope, is loyal to him for many years, and when suitors move in the their castle to take the spot of Odysseus, she still is loyal to him. Penelope is loyal to Odysseus after she wept for 20 years for him to return, avoided marrying a suitor, and tested Odysseus when he returned.

The Perception of Faithfulness Faithfulness is an essential part of a culture’s beliefs. Staying loyal is praised, and respected by many cultures. This loyalty and devotion is rewarded. In Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, the characters’ faithfulness and loyalty are perceived to be important traits. These traits are portrayed in Athena, the goddess of war, who stays loyal to Odysseus, by assisting him to execute his missions.

Since the beginning of time itself, man has survived antiquity. It is survival that has allowed man to flourish. What is the foundation of survival? Loyalty may be the key to the continuity of human beings. One's loyalty can determine the fate of survival.

When Odysseus returns home, still hiding as a beggar, and sees the different Suitors in his house, although they don’t know that he is Odysseus. Their first reaction is to make fun of him for being old and poor, which is against the Greek values. After the ringleader of the Suitors, Antinous breaks a chair on Odysseus’s back, Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, steps in and pulls him aside. She wants to bring him up to her bedroom and talk to him about his travels, hoping that this beggar knew Odysseus. Penelope describes how her life has been melancholic without Odysseus and says, “If he were to return, if he were to care for me, I might be happily renowned!

This shows that Odysseus thought he was very smart and he knew what he was doing so he didn’t tell his men so which result him to go backward and all of the sailing time was wasted. And if Odysseus told his men that he got bag of gift and don’t open then there wouldn’t be this much of trouble. Sometimes you have to trust the people around otherwise you will fail in that situation and maybe even in life. If we don’t trust others then how others going to trust us. Another example from the story is when they are at the island of the Lotus eaters. There Odysseus sends three of his men to see if they find something on the island that can be valuable. And they wouldn’t want to leave so he told the rest of his men that if you “taste the lotus” then you will “lose hope for going home” (Homer 8). This shows that Odysseus knew that the three men wanted to stay but he forced them to leave because he knew or thought that since he wanted to go home then

“Then they lifted and carried out the possessions, those which the haughty Phaiakians, urged by the greathearted Athene, had given him as he set out for home… (page 201, line 119)” Soon after, Athene shrouds Odysseus’ father land in a magical mist so he does not recognize it and everyone will not recognize him. She does this so Odysseus can punish the suitors who mistreated his wife. Athene presents herself as a Shepard. Odysseus, the wise man he is, does not share who he really is.