There are many character traits that greatly affect the plots of stories. Homer’s Odyssey is affected by the epic hero Odysseus traits shown through his actions and reactions. Odysseus has varying character traits that are good and bad. Odysseus’s hubris impacts the narrative in a negative way because it endangers him and his crew.
The first time that Odysseus’s hubris pokes out, it ends horribly for him and his crew. Hubris is to have immense amounts of arrogance and pride. When, Odysseus and his men land on the island island of the Cyclopi the epic hero acts arrogantly which gets him and his men in a ton of trouble. Odysseus’s men try to give their leader sound advice when they say that they should steal the Cyclops’s goats and cheese. However, …show more content…
With the aid of his shrewd nature, the epic hero and surviving men escape from the Cyclops’s cave and make it to their companions safely. If, Odysseus had not been so swept up in his glory of escaping and kept silent, then perhaps he and his men would have gotten home a lot sooner. However, Odysseus did not do this and instead yells out at the Cyclops. This gives away roughly where Odysseus and his crew were, so the Cyclops beings lobbying boulders at them. THe geyser’s from the boulders almost beach the epic hero and his men. This only spurs Odysseus on even more, ignoring his crews pleas to stop taunting the beast. Odysseus screams at the Cyclops that he is “Laertes’ son, whose home’s on Ithaca” blindly not thinking through his actions (Homer, 443). With this newfound information the Cyclops exacts his revenge on Odysseus by praying to his father Poseidon. The giants prays the it takes Odysseus a long time to get back home and that over this time all of his men die. Also that when the epic hero returns home he will come home to only misfortune. The Cyclops’s pray ends up occuring and it only brings about negative things for Odysseus and his
The first time that Odysseus’s hubris pokes out, it ends horribly for him and his crew. Hubris is to have immense amounts of arrogance and pride. When, Odysseus and his men land on the island island of the Cyclopi the epic hero acts arrogantly which gets him and his men in a ton of trouble. Odysseus’s men try to give their leader sound advice when they say that they should steal the Cyclops’s goats and cheese. However, …show more content…
With the aid of his shrewd nature, the epic hero and surviving men escape from the Cyclops’s cave and make it to their companions safely. If, Odysseus had not been so swept up in his glory of escaping and kept silent, then perhaps he and his men would have gotten home a lot sooner. However, Odysseus did not do this and instead yells out at the Cyclops. This gives away roughly where Odysseus and his crew were, so the Cyclops beings lobbying boulders at them. THe geyser’s from the boulders almost beach the epic hero and his men. This only spurs Odysseus on even more, ignoring his crews pleas to stop taunting the beast. Odysseus screams at the Cyclops that he is “Laertes’ son, whose home’s on Ithaca” blindly not thinking through his actions (Homer, 443). With this newfound information the Cyclops exacts his revenge on Odysseus by praying to his father Poseidon. The giants prays the it takes Odysseus a long time to get back home and that over this time all of his men die. Also that when the epic hero returns home he will come home to only misfortune. The Cyclops’s pray ends up occuring and it only brings about negative things for Odysseus and his