Narrative Essay Depicted In Homer's Odyssey

Odysseus has no reason to save his men’s lives but for his own convenience. Finally, Odysseus is home and after a long journey in which he shows no heroic actions and yet proves to be nothing but a villain, he once again proves throughout his actions that he is a villain. Odysseus is finally home, on Ithaca, and is then helped by Athena and disguises himself as an old beggar. He proves then to be a villain by seeking his revenge for the suitors and maidservants that once betray him (696, summary). Another way in which Odysseus shows he is a villain is when he finally reunites with his wife Penelope and reacts with rage when she tests him. This reveals Odysseus is a villain because he reacts as if he was innocent and some way being betrayed by his own wife. Of course, though, he never tells his loyal wife Penelope about his love affairs with Calypso and Circe. In conclusion, Odysseus throughout his actions proves to be not only veil but a villain. He leads his men into trouble, kills the suitors and maidservants without mercy, and betrays loyal wife. This allows readers to truly see Odysseus other side. He was a villain and there is no doubt about it. However, think about his so called heroic actions and the way he made everything work out for his own benefits. He knew he was a villain and somehow still got away with

Near the end of this chapter when he has finished off all of the suitors, (mostly with the aid of Athena), Odysseus feels he has prevailed as the winner, righted the wrong. At one point he exclaims "these men the doom of the gods has brought low, and their own indecent acts. They'd no regard for any man who chanced come their way. And so thanks to their reckless work, they met their shameful fate."(435-438). The irony of this quote is the fact that he is

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.

Odysseus believed he was in the right when killing the suitors “You dogs! You never imagined I'd return from Troy- so cocksure that you bled my house to death, ravished my serving-women- wooed my wife behind my back while I was still alive!” (Homer 22: 37-40). Odysseus was dead set on killing the suitors since the beginning. He even told them “. . . all your necks are in the noose-your doom is sealed” (22: 43), illustrating how he would kill them as to avenge his wife and his honor. In doing so he was perceived as a hero by the most prevalent male figures in Ithaca, displaying an excellent example of Kleos, “fame through having great honor and virtue. Earned pride.”

Once they leave they go to an island with lastrogonians or cannibals.After realizing the Lastrogoninas eat people Odysseus sails to Circe's island or aeaea,where they get new to go to the underworld after Odysseus demands she turn the men back to men instead of pigs.He then passes through the sirens which leads him to Scylla and chanrib . After escaping reaches Helios's island where he is warned do not eat the cattle,Odysseus warns his men of the danger....they don't listen so Zeus decides to strike them with lightning except Odysseus who didn't eat the cattle. After this journey he stays with calypso for several years until he is released and goes to king Alcinous's island where he retells all of these events.

While Odysseus was stuck in the Cyclops' cave, six of his men were scooped up and eaten alive. But Odysseus mustered his men by saying," For in my bones I knew some towering brute would be upon us soon all out word power, a wild man , ignorant of civility." This rallied his men to continue to stay optimistic. After Odysseus tried to please the Cyclops, the Cyclops presented him with a gift. "Nohbody's my meat then after I eat his friends.

While Odysseus was trying to get him and his men back, he gets his men killed little by little. First by the lotus eaters then the cyclops and more later on. He lost most of his good men when he went against the cyclops. He couldn't put his men opinion ahead of his and he waited until the cyclops came back. By the time the cyclops came back it was too late because the cyclops started eating his men. The quotes "Why not take the cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it?". And also "Yet I refused.", these quotes prove that Odysseus doesn't honor his men opinions.

When Odysseus returned home to his wife and son, he took a very brutal approach to rid his home of the suitors who had invaded his household.  This revenge was also taken out upon the servants and maids who had been unfaithful to Penelope and had slept with the suitors.  Some may say this punishment was too harsh, and made Odysseus less than an honorable man.  However, Odysseus’s actions were justifiable.

In contrast to Odysseus, Everett's view on faith is remarkably different from Odysseus' view. In "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?", Tommy tells the " Chain Gang" that for him to learn how to play the guitar, he sold his soul to the devil. Furthermore, Everett lets Tommy know that Delmar and Pete had just been baptized but he is the only one who is apart from any religious group or figure. This shows that no God, religion, or miracles are believed by Everett. Now in contrast to Everett, Odysseus believes in many Gods and relies on them to help him stay alive throughout his journey and reach home in one piece.

When Phemius, the bard, is the last one living, Odysseus has to be convinced by Telemachus not to kill him because Phemius had not been reckless like the suitors in his house. Odysseus had gotten so caught up in releasing all his anger on the suitors, he did not realize there were still people who were innocent, which can be seen as a reckless act. I answer that Odysseus kills only the ones who were reckless in his house and those who deserved to be punished. There is no way that Odysseus could have known is Phemius was still loyal to him, so Odysseus taking Telemachus’ advice to not kill Phemius proves he was not being reckless.

In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus is away from his home, Ithaca, for twenty years. Despite the low odds of Odysseus ever returning home after such a time, those in Ithaca were expected to remain loyal to Odysseus as they awaited his return. While this was a daunting task, those who accomplished it were heavily rewarded, while those who didn’t were met with death. Upon his return, Odysseus promised Eumaeus, the loyal swineherd, that he would find him a wife, grant him property next to his own, and that he would become one of the “comrades to Telemachus, brothers from then on” (21.243). His own wife Penelope remained loyal for all of the twenty years of Odysseus’ absence, never once giving in to the many suitors who invited themselves into her home and spent years vying for her hand. While she probably would have been killed by Odysseus if she had been unfaithful to him, perhaps her greatest reward was just being able to be with her husband again and being able to live. The suitors, however, were not so lucky. Odysseus, along with the help of the goddess Athena, carefully plotted and executed the death of every suitor that entered his home and gone after his wife. With the help of his son, the swineherd, and the goddess, Odysseus took down every suitor, until “the suitors lay in heaps, corpse covering corpse” (22.414). The resulting death of every disloyal character in the epic

Honest or Not? Odysseus’ encounter with Agamemnon in the House of the Dead makes Odysseus decide whether or not he should be honest with Penelope about his sex life while he was away from home. While Odysseus is on his journey back to Ithaca, he encounters his mother. She informs Odysseus that “No one has taken over your royal rights,” over Penelope (11:210).While Odysseus meeting his mother is important to the plot, Agamemnon make a difference in Odysseus’ future decisions. Agamemnon informs Odysseus that “Aegisthus hatched my doom and my destruction, he killed me, he with my own accursed wife” (11:462-463).

During this trial, we have heard lots of information. We now know that Polites felt betrayed when his crew members tried to eat him. He thought that Odysseus could have done more to protect him. We know that Helios felt very offended when Odysseus’ crew ate his cattle. But, we also found out that Helios was giving us falsified information about Kirke. We know that Odysseus hurt Polyphemus, and how he felt seeing strangers eating all his sheep, the only things living in that cave with him. We know how Poseidon feels about Odysseus, and that he thinks that Odysseus is guilty. We know how the poor suitors felt, when Penelope was stalling them. They just wanted to give her happiness, and she tricked them. We talked to Telemachus about his father.

Tell me the truth now, have I really reached the land I love?” (368-373)Odysseus thinks Athena is lying to him and is playing him as a fool; he wants Athena to tell him the truth. After Athena explains Odysseus his son’s situation, Odysseus had blame Athena again “Why not tell him the truth? You know it all. Or is he too- like father. Like son- condemned to hardship, roving over the barren salt sea while stranger devour our livelihood right here?”(475-478) Odysseus had blame Athena that she doesn’t help his son Telemachus and let Telemachus knows that he has returned to Ithaca earlier, so Telemachus doesn’t need to have any hard time.

These past seven years have been like no other. It has been just me and my love Odysseus. He may not like me, but I surely do like him. He has a wife and kids, but I have him captive right by my side. I don’t know if he likes being captive. I have have never really asked him because I am pretty sure he hates it. Oh well, I am fine with it which is all that matters. After caring for Odysseus for a few hours, I heard Zeus yelling for me to come talk to him. I walked to his throne and he said, “ Don’t you think it is time to let poor Odysseus go Calypso? He has been here long enough”. I thought about his question for a second. To me, it has only felt like Odysseus has been here for a day. I guess Zeus is right, I should let Odysseus go.