His story is the most remarkable tale ever told. He is a person with complicated nature and conflicts. This controversy makes him almost a modern character. He overcomes them by using his main heroic trait – “cunning intelligence.” However, despite being extraordinarily smart and witty, he makes mistakes and rash decisions. Like any hero of the epic, Odysseus goes through many trials. His family motivates him to remain strong and tackle obstacles without giving up. He is willing to get home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. His leadership allowed him and his men to get past Scylla and Charybdis monsters. However, Homer shows his other strong qualities. Ignoring all the warnings, he made the decision that cost the lives of his men. The episode with Helios’ cattle depicted Odysseus’ stubbornness. Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus also demonstrated other weaknesses. It makes the readers respect his intellect and be warned at the same time. However, the episode shows the courage and intelligence of the hero, as well. The cyclops tale reveals Odysseus’ pride and vanity. He is not able to let this heroic deed stay anonymous. Instead of escaping without making a noise, Odysseus shouts his name out. While Polyphemus cries, “Nobody has blinded me”, Odysseus and the crew leave. Then, he makes the cyclops drunk, and blinds him. The hero tricks him into thinking that his name is Nobody. Later, Odysseus manages to get into a conversation with Polyphemus. While visiting the island, the cyclops captures Odysseus and his men. The episode highlights Odysseus’ main personal strengths and weaknesses. The encounter with Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, shows the hero’s character. His arrogance and quick temper often get him in trouble. In comparison to them, Odysseus becomes a victim of his shortcomings. Many epic heroes are famous for their virtues. Besides, he is a brave warrior, skillful sailor, and loving husband and father. Throughout the whole poem, Odysseus is portrayed as a man of wisdom, determination, and courage. These challenges demonstrate Odysseus’s character in all its complexity. These include battles with monsters, a visit to the afterlife, and the rage of God Poseidon. During this time, they have to go through different adventures. The journey takes him and his men ten years. He is the king of Ithaca, who tries to get home after the Trojan War. Odysseus is a hero of Homer’s epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey. His arrogance, pride, quick temper, and stubbornness often lead him to dangerous situations. During his journey home, he shows himself as a courageous, smart, and confident leader. Byron considers the "truthfulness" or realism of his own poem its greatest virtue, establishing its moral superiority over the epic, which for him was an outmoded and morally dangerous form.Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s epic poems The Odyssey and The Iliad, has many strengths and weaknesses. Epic poetry demanded supernatural intervention or at least concern with the affairs of men Don Juan takes place in an entirely secular world. Physical prowess and heroism in combat were the principal values of the epic heroism, wars and glory are endlessly ridiculed or condemned in Don Juan. Epic poetry was impersonal Don Juan is the most personal of poems. The epic hero should be virtuous and constant to some great design Don Juan is the average man, drifting with every circumstance. The action of an epic poem was expected to be single, and great the action of Don Juan is purely episodic and often flagrantly "low." The only actions which could be considered great-the shipwreck and the siege of Ismail-are treated with a literal realism that is entirely foreign to the epic spirit. Far from being a modern epic, or an adaptation of the epic to the nineteenth century, Don Juan systematically parodies or attacks the major conventions of epic poetry as set forth by neoclassic criticism.
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