Journey Of Odysseus Journey

Around the 1200 B.C., Odysseus was sailing the Mediterranean Sea for the purpose of reaching home. In his long narrative poem, The Odyssey, Homer conveys how Odysseus desperately wishes to go home to Ithaca. However, he faces brutal treatment and obstacles from several different antagonists, and more obstacles appear when he reaches home. Odysseus came across many external conflicts, which he dealt with intelligence, determination, and loyalty.

Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and the main character in homer’s The Odyssey, was gone for twenty years before finally returning to his family and his homeland. He struggled through many hardships and lost many loyal companions. The King of Ithaca would not have made it home without the assistance of the Greek gods. Despite all of the help and advice that Odysseus receives from the gods, he is a very brave man because his courage and daring in the cave of the Cyclops, his inability to give up and abandon his men on Circe’s island, and his flawless following of the gods instructions are acts of bravery that is uncommon in most men.

During Odysseus’ journey back home to Ithaca, him and his crew encountered many evils and troubles. Almost every one of these took at least one of his men. Scylla is an example of this. This monster took six of Odysseus’ men while on the journey home. Nearly ever was it Odysseus’ fault. His men caused most of the problems that haunted them back to Ithaca.

Odysseus is the main character in an epic poem called the Odyssey. In the poem Odysseus has had some bad luck getting home, with some of the gods helping him and some hindering him; his journey towards home is a constant struggle. In this poem we see a man being broke and rebuilt, through constant irony his faith was damaged and without the help of Athena he probably would have given up on his journey. Through his hard work and wise spirit he finally does achieve his goal.

Odysseus’ challenges at the hands of Poseidon provide a medium in which he incorporates more traits of an epic hero into his lifestyle. After nearly escaping the cyclops’ island unscathed, Odysseus looks back and taunts, “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” (Homer 561). While highlighting Odysseus’ ability to accomplish larger than life deeds, this situation also emphasizes his trait of hubris which permeates his actions and spurs Poseidon to oppose him. He must now face the consequences of excessive pride,

Throughout Homer’s The Odyssey the main character of the story is regarded as a great hero. Although he is a great hero that does not mean he is an effective leader, here is evidence that Odysseus is not an effective leader for reasons such as recklessness, deceitfulness and a curse from the gods.

One faces enormous challenges throughout life. In the famous saying, “Life isn’t about how many times an individual falls, but rather how he picks himself up,” its obvious obstacles make up his character. This applies to Odyssey who follows a hero’s journey. Several times he fails and goes through rough patches. But, in the end he is able to return to his home above all. Odysseus works through challenges to become a hero earning this status by his perseverance, humility, and cleverness.

In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus, the man of twists and turns, is able to find his way home after ten years of travails. Even though he eventually finds his way home at Ithaca, the expedition is not effortless as Odysseus’ fate is affected by immortals. First, because Odysseus blinded Poseidon’s son, Polyphemus, Poseidon and Zeus harm Odysseus and do what they want to him.

Odysseus’ craftiness sets him apart from the other characters as a hero because he succeeds when others fail.

In Book Twelve, Odysseus faced a situation when he had to choose between losing six men to Scylla, a six-headed monster, or losing the whole ship and crew to Charybdis, a sea-monster who swallows huge amounts of water and spits the water out three times a day. The path through the cliffs was too narrow, and attempt to avoid one monster would result in facing the other one. Although goddess Circe forecasted the tragedy, she said Odysseus had to decide it himself, and Odysseus chose to pass through Scylla. While crossing, Odysseus armed to fight but failed and stood helplessly watching six of his shipmates being swallowed and digested by Scylla. This part of Odysseus’ journey represents a dilemma when no matter which road Odysseus chose, he would lose something. The only thing Odysseus could work on was to making sure the losses were as negligible as possible, and like Circe said, “Better to mourn six men than lose them all, and the ship, too.”

In Homer’s “The Odyssey” Odysseus encounters many obstacles on his journey home. His experiences are very similar to life because you will face hard times and temptation. Even though you must face these things you still have to stay on the right path. It’s easy to give in but true heroes, like Odysseus, keep going strong until they’re satisfied with where they’re at. Throughout life we will all face things we wish we didn’t have to

During the fight he taunted Polyphemos, the Cyclops. His cockiness and extreme self-praise made the situation much worse. Odysseus' plan to defeat the Cyclops worked to perfection, and him and his crew were safe, but Odysseus' ego decided to take over and he taunted back at the "lawless brute", "so, Cyclops, no weak coward it was whose crew you bent to devour there in your vaulted cave- you with your brute force! Your filthy crimes came down on your head, you shameless cannibal, daring to eat your guests in your own house- so Zeus and the other Gods' have paid you back" (226).

Odysseus and his companions arrived at the underworld where they saw an old mate who was not buried properly, his own late mother who passed away grieving for him, and Teiresias who is a prophet. After promising Elpenor to properly bury his body, he see to his mother. Later, he notices a blind prophet. After offering blood from his sword, the prophet warns them not to eat any of Helios’s cattle. He also reveals that Odysseus alone will survive their journey. He and his companions must have self-control to make it through. A God who is angry at Odysseus will not hesitate to make them suffer, therefore they must be vigilant.

In the Odyssey, Odysseus struggled for twenty years trying to find an end to his journey. Through the course of his journey, Odysseus repeatedly faced often perilous obstacles that required his wit and quick mind. However, the obstacles were not always threats that Odysseus had to cleverly outwit for Odysseus also faced temptations that would have appealed to any lost man at sea. This is why one might wonder what motivated him to prevail through these obstacles and ultimately achieve his goal. It was the love Odysseus felt for his family and homeland, Ithaca, which gave him the strength to overcome the challenges presented to him. A theme that we can take away is when home and hearth inspire love, Odysseus achieves his goal. This is seen in many instances because Odysseus’ goal in the end was to go back to his family and home. If he had not had this motivation, his journey would have never been completed and he would not have become a

The Odyssey is an epic poem that showcases the heroic actions contrasted with the grave disasters of Odysseus, a tragic hero on his way home from the war in Troy. The author, Homer, shows through Odysseus’ actions that even a hero such as he, has flaws. Flaws that if not acknowledged and learnt from, can spell grave disaster in the journey yet to come. Many Greeks recognize Odysseus as the most renowned hero of the Trojan war, thanks to his own accounts of his years away from Ithaca. Following the Greek beliefs, many believe that Odysseus couldn’t have kept himself away for so long, for only the gods can do something like this, and Odysseus can’t be the cause of the crew’s deaths, only the gods could be so cruel. While