The Odyssey Moral Values The Odyssey by Homer uses Odysseus’ 10-year journey home from the Trojan War to illustrate some of the most important moral values of book. The moral values in the story include loyalty‚ compassion‚ self-control and perseverance. Each one has a tale or two associated with it. Loyalty is an important moral value in The Odyssey because Odysseus is devoted to his family. He is determined to return home to his wife despite all of the obstacles in his way. Odysseus stayed
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Homer‚ The Odyssey BOOK I Tell me‚ O muse‚ of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit‚ and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men‚ for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented
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Throughout the first eighteen books of The Odyssey‚ one of the central themes in the epic is the double standard of fidelity in Odysseus’ time. Women who werent faithful were shunned in the society‚ but when Men were unfaithful‚ not much was made of it. The relationship of Penelope and Odysseus gives us a prime example of this as Penelope wards of the suitors‚ refusing to move on from Odysseus where as Odysseus was intimate with other women on numerous occasions on his journey back to his homeland
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been made are about war and not even single one movie about against the war or from different perspectives. I wondered if the people in Hollywood did not all get together in a room and decide that they willing to do just this kind of film and not other kind of film. Leon Trotsky once used an expression to describe events that are not accidents‚ and not planned consciously‚ but are something in between; and he called this “natural selection of accidents‚” in which‚ if there is a certain structure
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literature or any specific text‚ you will strengthen your discussion if you offer specific passages from the text as evidence. Rather than simply dropping in quotations and expecting their significance and relevance to your argument to be self-evident‚ you need to provide sufficient analysis of the passage. Remember that your over-riding goal of analysis writing is to demonstrate some new understanding of the text. HOW TO ANALYZE A TEXT? 1. Read or reread the text with specific questions in
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Honors Eberle Similarities in Cold Mountain‚ The Odyssey and The Color Purple Cold Mountain and The Odyssey share many aspects of their plot. Both novels dominantly contain the theme of “The Journey.” The adventure contained in the theme “The Journey‚” represents the journey of life and all that happens on life’s voyage metaphorically. Cold Mountain and The Odyssey both exemplify said metaphor. Many characters in both Cold Mountain and The Odyssey share many traits with characters in Alice Walker’s
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The Odyssey was one of the most action filled books i think i have ever read. now i don’t like reading very much‚ in fact i hardly ever read and i couldn’t wait to get back to class to read more of The Odyssey. The Odyssey is a story of a guy who has about a 20 year struggle to return home to is wife and son after fighting in the trojan war. Odysseus faces many obstacles on his journey home such as the Cyclops island‚ The sirens island and Calypso’s island. The first obstacle that Odysseus faces
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have followed ever since? Our society has followed behind Greek influences since the beginning‚ probably because Greece is one of the oldest known civilizations to humans. Literature as well‚ has been followed up to today. Homers’ epic poem‚ The Odyssey‚ presents us with a story following what we would call a typical hero‚ Odysseus‚ who is on the journey home to Ithaca from the Trojan War. Although it would seem easy and rapid for him to reach Ithaca where his beloved wife and son are waiting for
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The ancient Greek code of hospitality xenia influenced the epic in various ways. The Phaeacians welcome Odysseus under this code. “’In accordance with our [Phaeacian] custom‚ let us make the immediate arrangements to escort him [Odysseus]’” (95). They followed with their custom and later saw him back to Ithaca. This influences the end of the epic greatly without the Phaeacians generous interpretation of xenia Odysseus would never have reached home and taken revenge on the suitors. Xenia was shown
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In the epic The Odyssey‚ the epic hero Odysseus exhibits man heroic traits‚ the most important of which is intellect. In The Odyssey‚ the hero Odysseus first shows intellect in the island of the Lotus Eaters. He chooses to go onto the island and grab his men that got addicted to the lotus. They have lost all hope in returning home. Odysseus doesn’t want them to lose loyalty to their families. This is the first episode that he shows the heroic trait of intellect. The second adventure that Odysseus
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