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Who Is Responsible For Odysseus's Downfall

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If you follow good advice your life will be much simpler. Even though it is your choice to follow it not doing so may lead to bad results. This occurs several times throughout the Odyssey. In the Odyssey, Homer portrays Odysseus as a stubborn man as well as a man that lets his emotions and opinions get in the way of making the right choices. The first time Odysseus is offered good advice is when he and his men are inside the Cyclops’s cave. His men urge him to leave but Odysseus chooses not to because of his curiosity. Odysseus is determined to see the Cyclops and observe his behavior even though it is a risk. When the Cyclops entered the cave he blocks the entrance trapping Odysseus and his men inside the cave. He and his men are forced to confront the cyclops resulting in the death of two of his men. …show more content…
He and his men succeeded in escaping the cave but Odysseus was not able to contain his emotions and lashed out at the cyclops. Due to his anger at the cyclops for killing his men, Odysseus started yelling at the cyclops and taunted him. This infuriated the cyclops and since Odysseus and his men had blinded the cyclops in order to escape, the cyclops without thinking grabbed a mountain top and thew if as far as he could. This in turn created a wave that pushed their boat to shore delaying their journey to Ithaca even

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