Odysseus As An Effective Leader

Odysseus portrays himself as a leader who is courageous, confident, good hearted and uses his intellect to get himself out of tough situations. Through his various adventures he demonstrated these qualities, like the time the white goddess seen Odysseus in trouble and said to him “take off your clothes and abandon your raft” (345). He did not listen because in the past the gods have schemed against him before and the outcome did not turn out well. Therefore he used what he knew about their ways and decided that taking his own route was the best way to go. Odysseus always came off as a good person, when he ran into Nausicaa she said to him “stranger, you do not seem to be a bad man” (190), not even knowing him she made the assumption that he