intentions but uses trickery or unmoral actions‚ like cheating on his wife‚ to complete his goals. In the efforts to save his men‚ Odysseus does the unmoral and sleeps with Circe. In addition‚ Odysseus longs to get home‚ yet spends seven years with Calypso and one year with Circe. This shows that Odysseus is set on going back home to his family‚ but lets beautiful women get in the way of him returning. Odysseus knows the right thing to do is to try and get home‚ but chooses to find pleasure and stays
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the other hand‚ is going to do anything in his power to stop Odysseus from going to Ithaca. In the passage of Calyso‚ the sea nymph (Book 5)‚ it is again revealed that Poseidon wishes to make Odysseus suffer on the road to his homeland. After Calypso "permits" Odysseus to leave her island‚ he begins to construct a raft to sail away in. The narroration says‚ "... Odysseus builds a raft and sets sail‚ but the sea god Poseidon is by no means ready to allow an easy passage over his watery domain.
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Odysseus was reluctant from when he had to leave his beloved island‚ Ithaca‚ to when Odysseus was reluctant in dying in the Trojan War. After the long and dreadful Trojan War‚ Odysseus was washed up onto the island Ogigya‚ where the demi goddess Calypso looked after Odysseus. Odysseus washed up on Calypso’s island because Poseidon wrecked Odysseus’ ship on his journey home. Odysseus was still reluctant on giving up on his
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It was late afternoon when I‚ Polyphemus‚ saw their boat sailing in from the turquoise waters that day. Their leader‚ I later found out that his name was Odysseus. It didn’t really surprise me in the least that they came here because many people have done it in the past. I was actually kind of excited about it because I alone hadn’t had a visitor in a long time though. They never saw me while I was hiding and planning what I was going to do to them once they entered my cave and I trapped them inside
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There are many epic heroes in literature that i could have chosen‚but I decided to go with Odysseus. When I first read the odyssey‚ I loved it and I still do. I loved it not only for the Greek culture‚ action or monsters. I fell in love with the book because of the characters mainly Odysseus‚ before I learned what an epic hero was I already knew that Odysseus was one.On his journey throughout this book he was courageous‚ wise‚ intelligent‚ loyal and many more. He is also a father and a husband‚ he
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Homer’s The Odyssey and Euripides’ Medea offer a glimpse into how women were treated and expected to behave in Ancient Greece. The Odyssey introduced us to Penelope‚ Odysseus’ wife. Although Odysseus is presumed dead for many years‚ she remains loyal to her husband. Long after Homer’s death‚ Euripides uses epic poetry and theater media to portray women through Medea in Medea in a time before mass-media. Medea was taken from her homeland in Asia to marry Jason. However‚ her marriage fell apart and
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Throughout the book The Odyssey‚ Odysseus demonstrates he is a hero through his cunning actions.Odysseus has portrayed how cunning he is when he and his men were trapped inside the Cyclops’s cave. Trying to escape‚he comes up with a plan to get the cyclops drunk and blind him. The text states‚ “‘ Among all my schemes and machinations‚ the best plan I could think of was this.”(9). This reveals how Odysseus repeatedly used his crafty and sly personality to overcome challenging obstacles. When asked
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Ahmad November 17‚ 2011 World Literature Professor: Who is the monster in Odyssey in current society? After reading the epic The Odyssey‚ I have realized that Odysseus can be identified in various distinctive ways. The most arguable question that the Odyssey leaves its readers with is who is the monster in this epic? Throughout the story he is being recognized as a great hero but upon finishing the story I have realized it that this man Odysseus‚ is the monster in this story. The same goes
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Intro to Scuba Science April 09‚ 2013 The Father of Scuba Diving Abstract Scuba Diving has become a very popular sport in the past few decades since it is affordable and catches the attention of adventurous people. At first scuba diving wasn’t recreational‚ it was expensive and one usually had to be in the military to get an opportunity to explore the ocean and you were still limited to a certain distance since you were attached to a hose. This all changed thanks to Jacques Cousteau who changed
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convinced Zeus of her case and Hermes was dispatched to free Odysseus from Calypso’s grasp. Odysseus was settled here for quite some time and had no way of escape until Calypso was forced by the gods to let him go. This is where his journey begins. At first Odysseus is very skeptical of this freedom and thinks that it is a trick by Calypso‚ which is the denial stage that follows the call to adventure. This stage separates Odysseus once agaian from what has become familiar to him. He is called to journey
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