Ursula In The Sirens From Homer's Odyssey

A villain, the thing that adds heart and soul to a story. There is always a villain in a story. They are always rude, evil, often funny, and brutal. Some be villains by destroying cities and others are just out to hurt the hero. They are stopped nearly every time, and keep going back for more.

The Odyssey is the most famous epic in all of Greek mythology. The purpose of The Odyssey was to teach the reader about life lessons. Since it is so long, a reader can gain multiple pieces of wisdom from this single story.

Villains seem to be the most intriguing characters of fairy tales, whether it’s their scary charm or their suspenseful motives. Villains inject many memorable events in tales and they have an interesting way of doing it. “Villains also have more fun than their angsty, conflict-ridden counterpart” Aja Romano writes in an article for The Daily Dot. It surely seems that way, doesn’t it? Villains are usually having fun in their evil ploys all the way until their evil plans are foiled and they get their consequences. Villains have admirable qualities; they awaken the inner wild child in the readers or viewers. They evoke a sense of almost rooting for them at times. Villains always have power as opposed to their counterpart’s kindness and lack of assertiveness and sense of power. Especially in princess fairy tales, the villain usually is the more powerful and assertive character while the heroine is a more sweet and nurturing character and usually lacks the power characteristic. Some may argue against this, what about

Homer's portrayal of Circe and the Sirens in the Odyssey affirms the stereotype that women are manipulative. In the Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew have sailed to Aeaea, the home of Circe, a goddess with a human voice that tricks them into following her into her home where she drugs them and turns them into pigs. In the quote, it states, “she came out and flung open the bright doors and invited them in. They all filed in naively behind her, except Eurylochus, who suspected a trap. When she had led them in and seated them she brewed up a potion of pramnian wine with cheese, barley, and pale honey stirred in, and she laced this potion with insidious drugs that would make them forget their own native land”(10.246-254). Homer uses diction in the phrases “flung open bright doors”, “filed in naively behind her”, and “laced this position with insidious drugs” in the section of the text to show Circe as manipulative.

Homer’s tone towards the Sirens deprecates and objectifies them, while Atwood’s tone towards the Sirens is empathic and woeful, for the purpose of revealing male oppression and its effect on females. Homer describes the Sirens as an experience for the hero’s benefit. The Sirens sing their song to Odysseus, and according to Homer, the song’s purpose is to let man “hear to his heart’s content” and sail away “a wiser man” (Homer 18). The Sirens are merely an experience, an object, that a hero grabs on his journey, according to Odysseus. Odysseus is the only one to have “heard the honeyed voices pouring from [their] lips”(Homer 17). Through this imagery, Homer communicates the perspective of Odysseus. He sees women as something to elevate his status

While both poems of the sirens portray the creatures as enticing, admitting to the deadliness of the song they sing (PrPP), Atwood’s rendition, with its perspective entirely from that of a siren herself, paints the sirens as more deceitful in their malevolent (SAT Vocab) coaxing of men, while the sirens of Homer’s classic tale rely more on their beauty and “ravishing voices,” (Homer, 19) utilizing rhetorical appeals to attract sailors (PrPP Parallel Structure).

There are different ways of how sirens are described in "Book 12 Of The Odyssey" and the poem. The way sirens are described in the poem is very different from Book 12, In the poem the sirens are actually cursed women. The sirens don't like to be in their bird suit and have to sing to kill men! One of the sirens don't even like the other sirens just because she doesn't want to be a siren.

In numerous novels, writers use a different perspective to convey the attitude and perception of an event of a specific character. This, however presents an idea to the reader of how a character might be feeling. Additionally, it provides a chance for the reader to understand the reasons as to why some events had taken place caused by a specific character in the novel. I had chosen to compose a narrative from a Siren’s perception of Book 12 because I wanted to establish a background for a Siren. In The Odyssey, the readers are clueless as to why the Siren’s entice the men with their charm. Nevertheless, I wanted to create a reason as to why the Siren’s charm the sailors that pass by the island of Sirenanka. Additionally, I wanted to step out

This term “villain”

A villain is defined as “a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime.” To determine who the better villain is; Frieza, an intergalactic villain known for taking over planets with his followers and being one of the strongest beings in the universe or The Joker, Batman’s arch nemesis known for causing chaos throughout Gotham and having an ability to bring the worst out of people, I must first decide what makes an effective villain.

The poem The Sirens and the episode containing sirens in The Odyssey contain similarities that expose the theme of temptation. For instance, the sirens claim that their “green isle” is a place where one could “rest forevermore” in the poem, and they call to Odysseus as well, telling him how no one had passed the sirens without listening to them, and how they always received “a great treat.” Both of these examples show the sirens deception, how they are trying to fool men into thinking of a beautiful island with flowers and green grass when reality presents a manifest of death and evil, with each siren sitting atop a mound of bones.

In a world where anyone can become a superhero, anyone can also become a villain. And while there has always been the occasional robbery, or fire scare, they would always be unorganized, the work of some half-assed criminal who nobody bothered to care about besides the local police force.

What truly makes a 'villain' to us? Is it the need to cause mayhem, a long, resounding evil laugh? Or just someone whose values run in opposition to ours? Whatever the case may be, we perceive these characters carefully, recognizing them almost instantly as forces to be reckoned with- That is, most of the time. In the next few paragraphs I aim to explore why what the most frightening of villains terrify us the most.

Ever watched a movie or read a book with the evil villain? You might have found yourself hating the villain or even cheering the villain on. Villains are everywhere in fiction, you could never avoid it. They create conflict for the protagonist and make the fictional story more interesting. There's many famous examples of villains.

Throughout history, villains have been apart of every aspect of life. A villain can be seen in a multitude of areas ranging from being a physically abusive person to a person that is very mentally manipulative. Villains can also be seen in other areas from children's movies to real life scenarios. But the most notorious villains are the ones society gets to see in some form of theater or film. A good story or film often has some form of an obstacle to overcome in the version of a bad guy. And although each villain has their own specific characteristics that makes them bad, there is a criteria or checklist that each villain must meet prior to obtaining the label of a villain. Whether it is just one of the criteria or all of the mannerisms, a good bad guy must display one of the traits. This then brings up the question, what criteria is displayed and needed to