Outline Is Odysseus a hero
According to Maya Angelou a “Hero is any person really intent on making a better place for all people.” In other words, a hero is someone that makes sacrifices, and contributes to others. In the Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus must defeat supernatural obstacles such as gods, and cyclops to return home to his son and wife after 20 years. Although Odysseys is quickly perceived as a hero through its narrative perspective, He is ultimately an antihero which is explained through Odysseus’s selfish personality, and lack of compassion. Homer communicates that while one may be perceived as a hero, selfish actions ultimately illustrates the true personality and antihero one could be. In The Odyssey, Homer creates a story in which, …show more content…
When Odysseus finally returns home after a long torturous adventure he comes home to find suitors wasting away at his stores. The suitors eating up his stores enrages Odysseus which leads to him devising a plot with, his son, Telemachus to kill the suitors even though most didn’t commit a crime but showed a lack of compassion, and greed. Homer emphasizes how Odysseus lack of compassion towards the suitors illustrates the antihero Odysseus really is when he must be told by his son who not to kill as Medon, the herald, who cries out in fear “Ask your father to hold back too, or he might kill me”, and how “as mad as he is at the suitors” the only reason Odysseus spared the herald was because of his son telling him to. Through Odysseus having to be told to stop killing certain people Homer emphasizes how Odysseus ‘s lack of compassions leads to the death of the sons of several Ithacan men. Odysseus also having no compassions towards the suitors and killing them off also illustrates his antihero characteristics as he killed the suitors even if they were past friends and because his pride was hurt he felt he needed to act revenge Homer does this to depict Odysseus as not a hero but a villain who exacts revenge on those who wrong him. Bradbury emphasizes how a lack of compassion within one’s personality and everyday action’s further develops whether a …show more content…
Odysseus has the characteristics of a villain when he shows a lack of compassion to the suitors, and his servers. Odysseus also has the characteristics of an antihero when he makes actions based upon his selfishness without of a thought of others. The story the Odyssey can be related to the story 1984 by George Orwell because of the common theme of control and act of heroism vs acts of
According to Maya Angelou a “Hero is any person really intent on making a better place for all people.” In other words, a hero is someone that makes sacrifices, and contributes to others. In the Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus must defeat supernatural obstacles such as gods, and cyclops to return home to his son and wife after 20 years. Although Odysseys is quickly perceived as a hero through its narrative perspective, He is ultimately an antihero which is explained through Odysseus’s selfish personality, and lack of compassion. Homer communicates that while one may be perceived as a hero, selfish actions ultimately illustrates the true personality and antihero one could be. In The Odyssey, Homer creates a story in which, …show more content…
When Odysseus finally returns home after a long torturous adventure he comes home to find suitors wasting away at his stores. The suitors eating up his stores enrages Odysseus which leads to him devising a plot with, his son, Telemachus to kill the suitors even though most didn’t commit a crime but showed a lack of compassion, and greed. Homer emphasizes how Odysseus lack of compassion towards the suitors illustrates the antihero Odysseus really is when he must be told by his son who not to kill as Medon, the herald, who cries out in fear “Ask your father to hold back too, or he might kill me”, and how “as mad as he is at the suitors” the only reason Odysseus spared the herald was because of his son telling him to. Through Odysseus having to be told to stop killing certain people Homer emphasizes how Odysseus ‘s lack of compassions leads to the death of the sons of several Ithacan men. Odysseus also having no compassions towards the suitors and killing them off also illustrates his antihero characteristics as he killed the suitors even if they were past friends and because his pride was hurt he felt he needed to act revenge Homer does this to depict Odysseus as not a hero but a villain who exacts revenge on those who wrong him. Bradbury emphasizes how a lack of compassion within one’s personality and everyday action’s further develops whether a …show more content…
Odysseus has the characteristics of a villain when he shows a lack of compassion to the suitors, and his servers. Odysseus also has the characteristics of an antihero when he makes actions based upon his selfishness without of a thought of others. The story the Odyssey can be related to the story 1984 by George Orwell because of the common theme of control and act of heroism vs acts of