Odysseus Justified His Actions Analysis

Odysseus and I demonstrate determination in multiple ways. Odysseus never gave up despite being trapped in a Cyclops’ home. Countless men were slaughtered by Polyphemus, but Odysseus never gave up on escaping the clutches of the horrid Cyclops. He gathered and carefully formulated a plan. Odysseus spotted an Olive Tree branch, and he whittled it down until it was a lethal spear. When Polyphemus laid down to rest, Odysseus and his men jabbed the spear into his eye. Odysseus was determined to see his family once more, even if a monster five times his size stands in the way. Another time Odysseus portrayed determination took place in the Sea of Monsters, when he confronted numerous sirens and two horrifying monster.

Thesis: In the novel “The Odyssey” Homer displays the main character Odysseus, the shepherd of men, with god like qualities which clouds his judgement and sense of superiority that he will never transpire to respect the other warriors through his harsh tones.

There are many times in The Odyssey where Odysseus’ actions are questionable whether they were justified or unjustified. When Odysseus’ saw the way the suitors were treating the women, how they were stealing Odysseus’ things, and eating all of his food which made him mad. Odysseus’ proceeds to get the cowherder and swineherder to help him and Telemachus to take the suitors down. After Odysseus’ returns his actions towards those in his palace were justified when, especially when he killed Antinous and Melanthius.

In the time of the so-called Heroic Age (roughly the Mycenaean Age, the time of the Trojan War, 1200-1100 BCE or thereabouts) standards were much, much different, and some of them, at least, for very good reasons. Probably by those standards (or the standards of Homer’s time, some 400 years later) Odysseus was considerably closer to a hero than he would be in our eyes today. Perhaps, what might now be seen as grotesquely excessive blood letting, would then have been seen as an understandable or even necessary act of retribution

What kind of human kills for their own good? In the bloody journey of the Odyssey many men were killed by the hands of Odysseus himself. A lot of the men that died were killed by Odysseus but there was a good number of them that were killed by the actions Odysseus made. When it comes down to it Odysseus was wrong for killing the suitors. Odysseus killed the suitors out of his own insecurity, selfishness, and of course out of rage for what was done to him. But what was Odysseus expecting after being gone for 10 years? For everyone to just hold off on their lives just to wait to see if he will be coming back? Odysseus’ actions were not justified.

After the killing of the wooers, one of Odysseus's priests, Leiodes, despised the wooers for their actions, and refused to obey their orders. Still outraged, Odysseus mercilessly kills Leiodes knowing that he never prayed for Odysseus to come home. Odysseus' actions were not justified, especially because

In the book the "Odyssey" the main character "Odysseus" finally is able to return home from his long journey. Everything was back to normal in his life for a split second, until he saw his house and land up close for himself. He discovers that everything he ever owned or loved has been trashed and cruelly abused by the "wooers". Yes, "Odysseus" had the right to murder each one of the "wooers".

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.

He wants to kill them on the spot for their disgrace, but the goddess Athena advises him to be patient, and that the suitors will be punished (930). Odysseus obeys and waits patiently, until the goddess gives him the chance to extract his revenge upon all the suitors, finally bringing justice to his house. By listening to the goddess, he is rewarded with the taking back of his home and is reunited with his wife. As you can see from these examples, when Odysseus obeyed and respected the gods in this epic, they rewarded him and helped him to complete his long journey

Second of all, he was also justified in his actions because while Odysseus was in Ithaca as the beggar the wooers were making a secret plot to kill his son Telemachus. The wooers believed that if they wanted Penelope to be one of their wives they would have to kill Telemachus. Odysseus not knowing that at the time started to figure it out when all the wooers started to target Telemachus a lot more often. Causing him to become even

First of all, Odysseus was justified with his actions because he knew that he had to get his revenge after all the wooers had done. If he didn't strike back, then he wouldn't appear as a true hero towards his wife. He severely punished the wooers but they deserved it because they should've known the consequences for trying to invade Odysseus' property. To try to steal his spouse and take over his home is a big deal especially since it's the home of a hero. He wanted to show the wooers that he just traveled for 10 years and is still able to attack back proving his toughness.

Odysseus was the strong and powerful king of Ithaca. He was a courageous and loyal warrior who was known for his being able to outsmart his opponents. Odysseus returned to home after an almost twenty year absence to find that his home and kingdom had been taken over. He became enraged at the wooers, especially Antonius and the handmaidens at their total lack of disrespect for his home, kingdom and family. Odysseus decided that killing all who were disloyal to him was the only way to gain back control of his kingdom. For this reason I feel that Odysseus was justified in his actions.

He lashed out at the situation and I feel what he did was just and not harsh. Odysseus was a man of high honor, fought the Trojan War and won. From the powers of Zeus and the security of his faithful shepherd Emaeus, he protected and defended what was his and had every right

The way the wooers treated Odysseus when he was disguised as a beggar justifies him killing them. Odysseus found out some suitors were loyal and some were disloyal, they laughed at him threw things at him and made fun of him. When it is revealed who he really is the suitors try to kill him. This further shows that he had to kill them, they would not have stopped pursuing Penelope and had no respect for him.

Odysseus’ action are justified because they were trying to marry his wife Penelope. They did this even though he was still alive. The wooers also kept pushing her to get married even though she said she does not want to marry them. Not only that, they planned on killing Odysseus if he comes home.