... of humility, compassion, and willpower, among other virtues. Proud and pretentious Odysseus changes into a humble man after his bragging leads to great tragedies. At Kyklopes Land, when Odysseus and his men are successfully escaping from the Kyklops, Odysseus is too arrogant to leave anonymous. His men plead with him to just leave triumphantly without another word, but Odysseus would not have ... men, Odysseus does not waste time bragging about the victory. He even tells his faithful maid, Eurykleia, not to cheer over the dead men. The once savage and arrogant soldier says, "Rejoice/ inw...

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... ' return home. Moreover, a disruption in nostos is shown when the god of the seas, Poseidon, stirs up a storm that dismantles Odysseus' ship. Odysseus says, "Wretched man-what becomes of me now, at last? I fear the nymph foretold it all too well-on the high seas, she said, before I can reach my native land I'll fill my cup of pain! And now, look, it all comes to pass ... . What monstrous clouds-King Zeus crowning the whole wide heaven black ... they were. This shows that the attainment of nostos is an onerous task that Odysseus desires to complete. The scene where Odysseus goes to the un...

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... so many obstacle courses in his life. During all this everyone is effected by it the wife the town and most importantly his own son. his son had faith in his father regardless of what anyone had said about him. At one point Telemachus (Odysseus' Son) thought he was dead. But they were soon reunited, and traveled home together. Hamlet in a way relates to ... the Odyssey, as some of us know Hamlet was about Prince who loved his father very deeply and yet ... as well. Overall they were both different also it took place in different times, different countries, and they were different types...

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... opens with Zeus discussing how self-indulgence and foolishness is the downfall of mankind. Specifically, he is referring to how Aigisthos and Agamemnon's wife murdered Agamemnon. At this, Athena pleads with her father, Zeus, to allow Odysseus to reach home again. Suitors are harassing Odysseus" wife Penelope. The suitors assume that Odysseus is dead and they vie for Penelope's hand in marriage. In conversation ... some weakening and malignant illness: his pangs are gone, the gods have delivered him. So dear and welcome to Odysseus the sight of land, of woodland, on that morning. (5. 409...

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... , Alcmene, mother, as all men know, of lionish Heracles, conceived when she lay close in Zeus's arms; and Megare, high-hearted Creons's daughter, wife of Amphitrion's unwearying son"(Homer p.347-8). Most of the descriptions given to the many women that Odysseus sees in the land of the dead merely describe their great beauty, the gods that conceived their children, and the greatness of these children. In The Odyssey, women do not even have jurisdiction ... over their own lives. Some examples of this include an arranged marriage, when Menelaus is having ... ...

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... was defense and to fight as far away from the city walls of troy. King Priam wanted to defeat the enemy at the shores where they would land. The backup plan was to fight the Greeks on the plain of troy keeping them from the walls. So all in all the Greeks were more offense and the Trojans were the defense. Instead of reaching Troy the Greeks land at Mysia and after a battle received directions to ... Troy from the king. This could be more or less true but according to Strauss it shows how bad the navigation system was in the old days. Strauss also points out the hierarchy of the ... th...

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... the same fashion he gloriously fights against him in the previous battle. Hektor's wife claims that Achilleus action may have ended Hektor's pride: "I fear that Achilleus might have cut off bold Hektor / alone, away from the city, and be driving him into the flat land / might put an end to that bitter pride of courage, that always / was on him" (22:454-57) Achilles" action of dragging the dead ... body of Hektor around the tomb of Patroklos was enough to anger some of the gods. Apollo pleas to Zeus, "nothing is gained thereby for his good ... , or his honor. / Great as he is, let him ta...

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... was not completely unfaithful to his wife. If he had not resisted temptation, he would have been on the island of the Lotos Eaters, dead, or without a wife. Next, Odysseus learned that greed would never result in any good. After they visit Aiolia, Odysseus received a bag of wind of wind from Aiolos. His crew got jealous because they did not get anything, "How about ourselves - his ... bag, there's gold and silver plenty in that bag!" (X. 46-50). When they opened it up, the wind got loose and propelled them back to where they started, "Then every wind roared into hurricane; the ships wen...

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... Upon this misfortune, he and his men started a raid on the land of the Cicones. However, this only provided them with temporary success. The Cicones had struck back and defeated a vast majority of Odysseus's crew. This was their first of many disastrous experiences to come. Storms then blew his ships to Libya and the land of the Lotus-eaters, where the crew was given Lotus fruit from which most lost their entire ... memories from home. Odysseus, and the others who had not tasted it, recovered the sailors by force, and set sail again, westward, this time to the island of the Cyclops, a w...

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... his wife, Queen Acretes • Eurycleia- Odysseus" maid since childhood • Teiresias- a dead prophet who lived in the underworld • Calypso- a nymph who took care of Odysseus for 7 years • Polyphemus- a Cyclops; son of Poseidon • Menelaus- husband of Helen; King of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon • Nausicaa- daughter of Alcinous and Queen Acretes • Aeolus- God of the Wind; Poseidon's cousin • Telemachus- Odysseus" son • Eumaeus- a swineherd who ... another blow to Odysseus- a storm that sent him to the land of the Phaeacians. King Alcinous ruled the Phaeacians, with the help of...

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... ' orders, but he restrained himself in his conflict with the suitors. The translated text states: At this the man of randing mind, Odysseus, cried: "So hard beset! An end like Agamemnon's might very likely have been mine, a bad end, bleeding to death in my own hall. You forestalled it, goddess, by telling me how the land lie. Weave me a way to pay them back... I'll take ... on fighting men three hundred strong if you fight at my back, immortal lady!"(XIII, 480-92) Although ready for battle at the moment of quote, he instead returns to his hall under the disguise of an old man. At any mom...

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... Ithaca, Athena appears to the hero. Because his home is full of enemies, she advises him to proceed disguised as a beggar" (928). Without the help of Athena, Odysseus may have walked straight in and ended up murdered. The goddess, Circe, at one point gives Odysseus directions on how to return home. She advises him to pay a trip to the Land of the Dead. Once there, the Prince of Thebes tells him, " ... Great Captain,/a fair wind and the honey lights of home/are all you seek" (905). He then ... proceeds to give Odysseus instructions. In other words, without the help of the gods and goddess...

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... I do not believe that the editors statement is correct. In the end, the violence is resolved. Whether one considers the human heart to be the resolution, or divine intervention, either way the problem of violence was completely resolved by the end of the story. To determine how the violence was resolved, we must first look at the forms of violence that existed in the story. The premise of the entire voyage that the story was based on was ... that he was back and he was ready to take his home and his kingdom and return it to the stature that it once was before he left. "You yellow dogs, ...

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... come up with unique strategy to solve his problems. When Odysseus and his men arrive on land of Cyclopes, they do not realize that they are different from Greek custom and starts eating the meat they find in Cyclopes. This upsets the Cyclops and Cyclopes then starts eating the men: "Lurching up, he lunged out with his hands toward my men and snatching two at ... once, rapping them on the ground he knocked them like dead like pups" (220). Odysseus and rest of them are unable to run away because they ... are in the cave and the entrance is blocked by a large rock. Odysseus has to fight t...

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... unknown land, his qualities are caught between the qualities of a human and a hero. Heroes possess a multitude of different characteristics including bravery. Bravery is one of the main distinctive attributes that come to mind when thinking of a hero. During Odysseus" journey throughout the Mediterranean he has been told to voyage to the land of the Dead. What was special was that; "no man has ever sailed to the land of the Death."(180) He furthermore voyaged to the land of the Kyklops ... . While there he killed a Kyklops by stabbing him in the eye. "I drew it from the coals and my four...

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... without thinking any more about Polyphemus situation. Odysseus makes another cunning decision during his journey after he learns about the possible fate of his faithful crew. Odysseus gains this information from a dead poet named Teiresias in Erebus, known as the land of the dead. The dead man tells him about Charybdis, the risky whirlpool, and Scylla the six-headed, female monster. If Odysseus decides to chance his crew's lives with Charybdis, all ... of the men might survive, or the swirly monster may devour all of the crew. Odysseus contemplates a plan where he could steer by Scylla ...

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... . First off, women play major roles in both epics. In The Odyssey women were treated as slaves. They did not have control of themselves at all, the men did. For example, Odysseus ordered these women to pick up the bodies of the dead suitors and clean up the bloody hall. "These dead must be disposed first of all. Direct the women. Tables and chairs will be scrubbed with sponges, rinsed and ... , religion is one of the major themes throughout these two stories; religion is a theme in both stories because the characters worship their God and sacrifice to their gods. A difference in this them...

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... his heart because he deeply misses Penelope, but he does this for her. Another example of his mental, or rather, emotional endurance is when he faces his dead mother in the Underworld. "Seeing this ghost, I grieved, but held her off through pang on pang of tears, till I should know the presence of Tiresias" (Homer 1002). Although any other person would give in to despair, Odysseus stands ... queen, could have her king. Odysseus cared an enormous amount about Ithaca, and his heart was most definitely there. He killed the suitors for ravaging the land that he built himself, for his r...

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... Odysseus sails aimlessly until finding land finally " on the eighteenth day [when] some shadowy hills appeared" (Homer 25). Mirroring Odysseus in his moment of distress, the characters of "The Open Boat" embark aimlessly: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (Crane 355). To clarify, the characters in "The Open Boat" not knowing the color of the sky symbolizes that they were ... and states that "[a] draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps" (Poe 163). For purposes of clarification, Montressor intends to convey that the wine referred to as Medoc will cure Fortunado. Once F...

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... own honor and states, "I am not bad at any kind of sport. I can handle the polished bow well and I would be the first to pick off my man with an arrow in the enemy ranks". Odysseus continues on to tell Alcinous" son that the only archer ever better then himself was Philocteses who in now dead (Homer 99). Odysseus says this to defend himself and to ... make Alcinous" son know he will defend his honor with more than just words and games if necessary. Next Gawain and Odysseus display to whom and to where they"re allegiances lie. Gawain explains that his allegiance lies with Arthur and Quee...

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... looks and charm. If Odysseus had not have been as handsome then Circe would not have seduced him and he would not have been giving the advice about the river of the dead, the Sirens, Scylla and Charyboidis. Also, at the end of his journey had he not been handsome, Calypso would not have taken him in, fed him and gave him shelter, and he would have died ... . And after all that, I do not believe that he would have been as welcomed at the Kingdom of Pheaecia by the princess Nausicaa. Having the protection of a god is also a certain quality of a hero. Athena constantly helps Odysseus during...

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... is for our other character, Gilgamesh. Nothing lasts forever, as both Odysseus and Gilgamesh will find out later. Gilgamesh and Enkidu end up making the god, Enlil, angry because they killed the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba, the protector of the Cedar Mountains. So Enkidu must die. At this point, Enkidu curses everyone that has helped him become civilized because now he knows what death is ... friend Gilgamesh, eaten bread fit for the gods, drank wine of the kings, or dressed like royalty. Enkidu then realized that his meaning of life was to live a wonderful life and accept death instead ...

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