...Homer’s The Odyssey reveals Odysseus to have a multitude of character flaws. One flaw in Odysseus’s character is his audacity. During their travels, Odysseus and his crew come across the land of the cyclopes. Odysseus and twelve of his men decide to explore the land, and they find the cave of a cyclops. Odysseus's men implore him to take the cyclops’s food and leave. Odysseus knows this is the safest plan but rejects it nevertheless: Ah, how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer— no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends (Homer 652) Although Odysseus knows it is risky to enter the cave and wait for the cyclops’s return, he insists that they do so. He does this out of curiousity and eagerness...
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...because one Odysseus is greedy, two he put his teammates/crew in danger instead of keeping them safe, and lastly, he lacks communication. Odysseus does not need this award whatsoever and I'll prove to you why. First of all, Odysseus does not deserve the award of leadership because he is greedy. The reason why I say this is because when Odysseus went to the land of the cyclops his men told him to take the cheese, and whatever was in the pens and make a run for it. But instead Odysseus refused to listen because he just wanted to see what the cyclops had to offer. In the book, "The Odyssey", it states "Ah, how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer..." I used this evidence because you see that Odysseus did not care for the dangers that he was about to put his crew through. Instead he only cared for the gifts and hospitality that he wanted from the savagely caveman....
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...Popular culture shows that heroes, both real and fictional, have always been those who go out of their way to save lives and are able to sympathize with others. Odysseus, from the epic poem, The Odyssey, by Homer, is a man who obtains these hero-like qualities. Unfortunately, he has been away from home for ten years due to the many obstacles he encountered on his journey back to his home island, Ithaca. In this story, he shows hero-like traits to many people. He defeated the cyclops, Polyphemus, from trapping him and his men, slept with the enchantress Circe, he is able to pass the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis who blocked his and his men's path home, encountered walking corpses in the Land of the Dead to meet Tiresias, and cried for his dog,...
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...Odysseus’s cunning personality helped him return safely to Ithaca. In am adventure of the Odyssey, Odysseus is stuck on a island with a cyclops with no way out. Utilizing his cunning personality Odysseus devises a plan in which he will intoxicate the cyclops with wine and then stab the cyclops in the eye, this is displayed in the quote,“You put me down with wine, you blinded me”(Fitzgerald, 503).The trait cunning was necessary for Odysseus’s safe return because his quick thinking got him out of a tough situation with the cyclops. Although the plan gave Odysseus some trouble with Poseidon, the plan ultimately helped him get off the island and back on a path to Ithaca. The quote displays being cunning was necessary for Odysseus’s safe return because due to his cunning personality he was able to use the scarce resources he had to make a plan to return home. Lastly, Odysseus's fearlessness was necessary to a safe journey home. Odysseus was trapped in the island of Aeaea, and he had spent a year with a witch Circe. He longs about how to return home. He goes to the land of the dead to get this...
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...timeless quest for the “Promise Land” and Odysseus and his journey to reach home, the heroics of Homer’s Achilles and the strength of Old Testaments Samson, and the great defeats of Goliath by David and Odysseus’s trickery over Polyphemus the giant Cyclops. These stories come at a time when civilizations did not write down stories, but instead spoke of them and past them down from generation to generation by word of mouth. Homer in the early 12th century around the time of the Trojan War. Homer is revered as one of the utmost epic poets of Greek time, and had great influence in shaping the foundation of Greek Culture. The first five books of the Old Testament are told by Moses is said to have lived around the 13th century, an according to the Hebrew bible Moses was a former prince of Egypt that turned prophet. In Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Moses is considered to be one of the most important prophets. Homer and Moses have very similar tales of a quest, Moses with his quest of the “Promise Land”, and Homer with Odysseus’s quest to return home. The Promise Land in biblical reference is defined as the land of Canaan, which is now present-day Israel. That is the biblical definition of Promise Land; Promise Land can also be defined as, a place or situation in which someone expects to find great happiness. The definitions of Promise Land are an important because it helps show the similarities between Odysseus journey to find his home or his “Promise Land” and the journey of the Jews...
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...To me a hero is someone who is brave and will risk their life for others. I believe that Odysseus in the Odyssey is a hero. He won the Trojan war and he was heading home when the gods and goddesses played a game and he and his men got trapped on islands. In this essay i'm going to say how Odysseus was a hero. I am also going to mention three islands, The island of the cyclops, The island of the lotus eaters, and Hades. First I'm going to talk about the island of the cyclops. Odysseus and his men got to the island and everything looked normal until a cyclops trapped them in his cave. So Odysseus had to think and fast. He became a leader and planed to blind the cyclops instead of killing him. That worked now he had to think how to get out....
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...characters as he escapes from the Cyclops Polyphemus. The epic hero Odysseus demonstrates intelligence, bravery, and cleverness. One quality of an epic hero that Odysseus possesses is that he is intelligent. The Cyclops asks Odysseus where he left his ship, inquiring it was around the point or by the shore. Odysseus sees through the question and responds, “it broke up on the rocks at your lands end” (189). Odysseus does not want the Cyclops to find...
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...Was the great Odysseus the hero that everyone believes he was? Odysseus was a king of Ithaca that was summoned for the Trojan War, to fight for ten years until the fall of Troy.But, when this great hero decided to not pay the gods their dues, he was cursed to sail the seas for ten more years. Odysseus was a hero, and he showed traits of this when his men had to face the cyclops, the son of Poseidon, the god who cursed him.Odysseus and his men entered the lair of the Cyclops unannounced, after running out of food, and landing on it’s island.In search for food, the men entered the cyclop’s home and ate his goat cheese.The Cyclops discovered them in his lair, and ate one of his men on the spot.Odysseus had to be sly, and smart to make it out...
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...of their hard times. This also resembles the scene in The Odyssey with the lotus eaters. Another example is the “cyclops.” The man portrayed as the cyclops in the movie, Big Dan Teague, is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a symbol of racism. He is later killed by a burning cross, which shows that racism is disheartening. A scene in the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" involves baptisms. The filmmakers, the Coen brothers, used the scene in Homer’s The Odyssey with the lotus eaters to develop this scene in the movie. The scenes are very similar in that they lure the men in and provide them with something they like; in the movie they are redeemed of their sins and in The Odyssey they are provided with food. In "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Delmar is the first to get baptized and he says, “Well I was lyin' - and I'm...
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...In the Odyssey a Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds. One important idea that communicated is how Odysseus takes problems with confidence. This is seen when he has to fight cyclops. When he swims to shore when he is in the open ocean. Also confidence is shown when he has to fight off the suitors for them to get out of his country. He shows confidence when he fights the cyclops he remained confident even after many on odysseus friends have died. Odysseus had to kill cyclops after all the deaths Odysseus has witnessed. Odysseus plan was to give the cyclops many bowls of wine which would put the cyclops to sleep. When cyclops fell asleep odysseus got a piece of wood that looked like a sharpened pencil and stabbed the wood into the cyclops eye ball....
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...Anticleia. He brings a thousand ships and goes across the ocean, and there he had to face a lot of difficult situations like fighting a big giant creature. He also has to climb the big mountain to save his men. Also, the God of the sea, Poseidon, tries to stop Odysseus from going home because he said he that he wants him to suffer. And at home, his place is captured by suitors and he came and saved the land. The first obstacles Odysseus faces is the Cyclops. He is a giant monster living on a island and he is the son of Poseidon. Odysseus and his men get trapped in the cave where the Cyclops live and they try to get out, but there is a giant stone blocking the way and only the Cyclops can move it. Cyclopes want to eat all of them and they give Cyclops a drink and play a music, he falls into a sleep. And Odysseus comes with a plan to get out and well Cyclops is asleep they make a spear and blind him , and Cyclops cry and try to go out and Odysseus and his man tied himself in the sheep’s stomach and get out. Odysseus saves his men and goes away from the Cyclops. The Cyclops calls for father and say father they blinded me no one ever did...
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...Amaya Snyder Philipp English I Honors 16 March 2018 Title There is not a day in ones life where they won't encounter obstacles. It is how one handles these obstacles that defines them. Whether they take the lead, or stay back and follow in the footsteps of a leader. Homer exemplifies this concept throughout his epic, "The Odyssey". Odysseus, the main character, goes on a journey lasting 10 years, as he tries to return home after the Trojan War and reassert his place as the rightful king of Ithaca. During his journey, he is confronted with many dilemmas, revealing his true traits as a leader. In Homer's epic "The Odyssey", Odysseus's bravery and cleverness portray him as a commendable leader and demonstrate how one with these qualities has...
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...all about Part 1. This paper starts off with Odysseus adventure with Calypso the sea nymph then the Lotus Eaters peaceful people who are entrapped in the Lotus and finally the Cyclops Polyphemus. Odysseus showed a lot of bravery but also arrogance. Odysseus had finally finished fighting in the Trojan War for 10 years and was able to return home. Sadly though when he was returning home he forgot to give thanks to the gods for giving him support during the waging war. As a result, this made Poseidon angry and they were knocked off course to a mythical island in the Ionian Sea. There he met Calypso, a fare sea nymph that fell in love with Odysseus....
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...on with the journey, he became more and more brave and clever in making his plans. During Odysseus’ trial with the Lotus Eaters, he is forced to drag his men on board and tie them down in order to leave with them. In this trial Odysseus learns to take more control over his men. “I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships, / tied them down under their rowing benches, and called the rest” (9.680-682). Odysseus is only able to leave once he uses force to control his men and escape the island. Odysseus learns to become a great leader and put his men in their place. In Odysseus’ challenge of being trapped in the cyclops’ cave, he uses his sharp intellect to outwit the cyclops while keeping his men faithful in him, full of hope. This trial helps Odysseus build his leadership and quick thinking and clever planning as he leads his men in escaping the Cyclops: “I drove my big hand spike deep in the embers, charring it again, Mohammad Almubaid Period 3 and cheered my men along with battle talk to keep their courage up” (9.837-840). Odysseus proves how good a leader and a hero he is by escaping the cave eventually leading some of his men to safety with his intelligent thinking during the process. These trials really shape his character overall and makes Odysseus a better hero. Family is a really big part of Odysseus’ life and the main reason he wants to return home to Ithaca is to be with his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. This is his main goal, and the journey...
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...Define heroes in your thinking. Whenever I have that question, the first thing pop up in my head is Odysseus. The story that talk about him was wrote long time ago by the Homer. He was wrote at the greatest heroes in Greek mythology. With me, Odysseus is describe the word heroes mean. Odysseus is not just the person that are strong, brave, have superpower, but the three major things make Odysseus be a hero are leadership skills, intelligence, have weakness and overcome it. One major thing that make him be a hero is his leadership skills. The leader is the one that need to take care of everyone and take responsibility on them. When they landed on land of the Lotus Eaters, they were hungry and the people offered them the lotus. He tell them...
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