What Is The Theme Of Pathos And Logos In The Odyssey

To be engaged in war is to be engaged in an armed conflict. Death is an all too ordinary product of war. It is an unsolicited reward for many soldiers that are fighting for their country’s own fictitious freedom. For some of these men, the battlefield is a glimpse into hell, and for others, it is a means to heaven. Many people worry about what happens during war and what will become of their loved ones while they’re fighting, but few realize what happens to those soldiers once they come home. The short stories "Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway and "Speaking of Courage” by Tim O'Brien explore the thematic after effects of war and how it impacts a young person's life. Young people who

Homer's great literary classic, The Odyssey, represents and illustrates many emotional and mental values. All of these values can be classified under three different main themes that are constant throughout the epic tale. These themes are: A boy's struggle to be a man, a king's struggle to reclaim his kingdom, and a man's struggle to return home. As one reads this book it will become more and more evident to them that a man's struggle to get home is the most important theme throughout Homer's adventure.

The text, ‘The Things They Carried', is an excellent example which reveals how individuals are changed for the worse through their first hand experience of war. Following the lives of the men both during and after the war in a series of short stories, the impact of the war is accurately portrayed, and provides a rare insight into the guilt stricken minds of soldiers. ‘The Things They Carried' shows the impact of the war in its many forms: the suicide of an ex-soldier upon his return home; the lessening sanity of a medic as the constant death surrounds him; the trauma and guilt of all the soldiers after seeing their friends die, and feeling as if they could have saved them; and the deaths of the soldiers, the most negative impact a war

Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It” is an emotional journey to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. According to Poets.org, Komunyakaa earned a Bronze Star for his service in the United States Army during the Vietnam war (1969-70). The use of first-person point of view gives the reader insight to the pain felt by a veteran reliving the horrors of war. The writer shares an indelible bond with not only the narrator, but all survivors of military combat. This bond is something that cannot be fully understood by the average person visiting the memorial. The theme of the perpetual effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is conveyed through the use of imagery, diction, and mood.

In Homer’s The Odyssey, Homer includes many symbols, motifs, and values that were very prominent in the ancient Greek world. Specifically, he packs a lot of these into Penelope’s vivid dream of her twenty geese. This part of the epic offers us heaps of imagery and indirect characterization that directly links in with the events and motifs in the book, as well as Penelope as a character. In modern society, sleep is oftens something we glance over.

Banksy has once stated, “A lot of mothers will do anything for their children except let them be themselves.” This quote explains how Percy or Rhea wanted to save their mother/son and this quote shows how that relationship works. The theme is correct because in the lighting thief the plot is about Percy is going on this journey only to rescue his mom not to stop the war between the big three. Also in “Cronus” Rhea wanted to save her son more than anything because Rhea now had someone to love and cherish.

Good morning, Mr Colyer and fellow classmates. Today I am going to discuss and analyse how societal attitudes to war have changed over time. First, we must explore the idea of a hero. What is a hero? It is a concept that has evolved over time to conform to the ideas and thoughts of the authors that have existed and written over the centuries. The concept has constantly changed and shaped it to fit their views, and left us with an amalgamation of ideas and thoughts and viewpoints on what heroism actually is. The differences in views are clearly shown in the two contrasting poems that were made in time periods only a few hundred years apart. King Henry V’s ‘Once more unto the breach’ speech in famous playwright Shakespeare’s play ‘Henry V’, portrays war as noble and illustrious, while Wilfred Owen, a soldier and poet in World War One, describes the war in ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ as senseless and inhumane, writing 318 years later.

Malay developed a universal theme in "The Odyssey" and "An Ancient Gesture" and I will explain how Malay used the story's of Odysseus and Penelope to convey a modern theme. In "The Odyssey" by Homer, they frequently visit the theme of grief of missing a loved one alongside "An Ancient Gesture". This is my essay on the sadness in the book, the grief that Odysseus and Penelope share and how they try to cope with said sadness. In "The Odyssey: by homer the main character: Odysseus is a master strategist and war hero of Troy.

In contrast, the Odyssey is not a poem of heroic life that is set off starkly against a background once-an-for-all, conclusive death; it is rather the poem of a kind of life that is infiltrated with death, in which death is continuously and incessantly present (citation). For Odysseus, the song of his homecoming, his nostos, will be the same thing as Achilles’ kleos (Nagy, pg. 200). And to achieve this heroic endeavor is to survive at all cost. The two poles of life and death fuse here. The world of the Odyssey is an existence in flux that is continuously in contact with the unconscious realm and death, as warp and woof. It consists as much of its background and underground, of the yawning abysses beneath and behind. Odysseus continuously crossing over, moving in and out of these magical realms (the islands of Circe, Calypso’s hideaway, the river of Okeanos, and Hades itself…to name a few); in the most proper sense, he is the one who is suspended over the gulfs and chasms of existence, suggests by the

Going through war and gaining all the new experiences from it is something all veterans have in common with one another. They share having to go through all the tragedies, all the losses, while also obtaining new friends and creating a brotherhood with their fellow soldiers. They also share the fact that they all, once returned home, need to find some way to deal with their experiences so they can live on. But the overall takeaway veterans have on war and the way they each recover is each individual’s own and can not be entirely compared to one another. While Odysseus and the veterans depicted in Wilfred Owen’s work both value and appreciate life, the way they each reflect on war and the viewpoints they have on it separates them and proves

There are usually many themes to be considered in older text, immeasurably more so in ancient Greek texts. Literature during that time was built around lessons or morals and was meant to instill ideals into the listener or reader.The works of Homer are no exception to this standard so extensively neither is the Odyssey. The Odyssey has many themes that mirror throughout most Greek texts but none is more prevalent than the concept of fate, that one has an inescapable destiny set forth by God(s). One of the major themes that is found throughout Homers works including the Odyssey is fate; which is supported by the character dialogue and Intervention of the gods in the stories, as well as the religion in the authors period and location.

An underlying theme within Homer’s Iliad is the tragedy of war. Despite war at this time being glorified and a way to gain fame, in the Iliad, in paragraph 520-525 on page 311, the sadness of the aftermath of war is very apparent. An unknowing Andromache has a hot bath drawn for her husband, which she is expecting to return. Instead, she is made aware of his death and is torn apart.

Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus is able to put aside his fears for the good of his men. For example, is Odysseus’s battle with the Cyclops and Polyphemus in book 9. This portrays an act of heroism and also showcases his honor because he not only saves himself but also a large number of his men using his skills and intuitive thinking. In order to achieve his goal of escaping, Odysseus is forced to conceal his identity from Polyphemus. He informs Polyphemus that he is nobody, thus allowing him and his men who have been disguised as sheep to escape from Polyphemus’s cave.

We also read descriptions of the men’s pain when they die, “he went whirling into the slaughter now, hacking left and right and hideous groans broke from the dying Thracians slashed by the sword– the ground ran red with blood” (Homer, Iliad, 10.556-560). Homer does not do anything to hide the brutality of war and the toll it takes on the soldiers.

Participating in war often is romanticized and is seen as a heroic and honorable act. This romanticism, of course, can only be put forth by one who has never experienced the inhumane devastation that each battle- each moment- causes for the minds and in bodies of every soldier. “The Soldier” was written by Rupert Brooke in 1914, just before World War One was about to begin, while “Dulce et Decorum Est.” was written by Wilfred Owen in 1917, during which Word War One was being fought harshly. Due to “The Soldier” being written before the War began, this poem depicts an idealized perception of war in which the subject topically seems honored to die for his country, and content to know that the blood of his country’s men will be shed in