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    Archetypes are repeating patterns in all types of literature throughout all of human history. The time and place does not matter, archetypes show up everywhere. They can be characters or situations, and are still found in our modern everyday life. Archetypes often reflect a culture or society's values and how they view the world. The Odyssey, composed by Homer, is an epic filled with thrilling, gruesome, bloody, chilling, heart-touching, and tear-jerking scenes. It is one of the oldest pieces of

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    wave pushed us off course and demolished some of our ship but then we sailed on. The isle of the winds- in this part of my journey I successfully was sailing to the island of the winds and then later I ended being blown across the ocean the caves of Scylla and the whirl pool of Charybdis and then we made the daring decision to try to pass by the foul monsters and sadly we lost a few men but we still ended up making it through which I didn’t even think we would succeed in doing even though it was obviously

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    Defining a Hero Essay

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    To the world today, a hero is someone distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility, or strength; but really, anyone can be a hero. A hero can vary from someone as well-known as George Washington to someone as unheard of as anyone’s very own mother. Someone who has done a good deed for someone else is hero. The biggest heroes are the ones in well-known books and plays, such as Odysseus from The Odyssey, or have made a huge difference in the history of this world, like Mahatma Gandhi. Siddhartha

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    Justice In The Odyssey

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    Question 3 A. Yes, Eurylochus and the rest of Odysseus’s men tend to typically act in a more selfish manner than gravitate towards the notion of justice. B. After the escape from Scylla and Charybdis, the remainder of Odysseus’s men go hungry on the island of Helios. They remember Odysseus’s warning about not eating Helios’s cattle but proceed anyway because of their need for food. Even though they give offerings to the cattle they still eat them and Zeus punishes them with a lightning bolt destroying

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    During, Homer’s, The Odyssey many strengths were tested throughout the entire book. This book was a mythological Greek folk tale that was created between the eleventh and eighth century B.C, therefore it is filled with many exaggerated stories about the Gods and treacherous adventures Odysseus had ventured on. He encounters a cyclops and after battles a six-headed monster. His crew discovers their talent for making mistakes such as being turned into pigs by Circe and letting strong winds out of the

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    swallow his entire ship, or take a more certain route, Scylla, the six headed man-eating monster, which is bound to consume exactly six of his men. Surprisingly, Circe advises Odysseus to evade Scylla and he does just that. Homer's description of Scylla is limited to Circe's perspective, while Odysseus' encounter is so action packed it leaves little room to describe Scylla beyond her gory physical attributes. Circe describes the gods' view of Scylla by saying, "I assure you. No one can look at her with

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    Odysseus: A Hero Essay

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    Odysseus: A Hero Heroism was not an invention of the Greeks. Yet, through the first hundreds years of their civilization, the Greek literature has already given birth to highly polished and complex long epics that revolved around heroes. These literature works gave many possibilities of definition of heroism. The Greeks illustrated heroism to obey the rules laid down by the gods and goddesses, and those who obey the rules would gain honor and fame. The Greeks regarded intelligence as one

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    differs you from a hero or a villain. The next archetype is about the villain/monster archetype. These two archetypes are basically the same that 's why I grouped them together. There many examples of the monster archetype in the Odyssey such as Scylla and Charybdis, the Cyclopes, and the sirens. Come this way, honored Odysseus great glory of the achaeans, and stay your ship so that you can listen here to our singing; for no one see has ever sailed past this place in his black ship until he has

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    Odyssey Archetype Essay

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    A strong and courageous hero, who even through challenging journeys, finds fortitude and perseveres to accomplish his vast adventure. The goal is to return home to his wife and son, safe and alive. The tale of this god-like man, named Odysseus, and the archetypes he encounters is a great and epic one. His cunningness and wit is always set to the test against either gruesome, horrific monsters or his own inner battles. The time period this story takes place in is in the twelfth century B.C.E. Ten

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    Allusions In The Book 1

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    When Leopold reads about a colony being set up in Turkey, it represents the idea of Ithaca as a promised land of peace. This is the first episode in which we finally meet our modern hero in a figure of an ordinary man who is busy with everyday trivialities. Leopold might not be on a faraway island in an adventure with mystical creatures, but in his mind he is as far away from home as Odysseus. Although he is in his kitchen making breakfast, his mind is not connected with his reality, creating distance

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