Examples Of Obstacles In The Odyssey

There are always going to be a moment in life when it feels like giving up is the only solution. Sometimes if one digs a little deeper like Odysseus did, goals in life can be achieved. Odysseus was faced with multiple obstacles that were difficult to overcome. However, the toughest are Penelope because she tested Odysseus’s loyalty and mental strength, Scylla and Charybdis kept Odysseus from being capable of using his physical strength, and Calypso tested Odysseus’s honor to his loving relationship with his wife Penelope and his ability to separate greed from his goals in life.

Heroes, as shown in literature, often undertake the most difficult tasks and place themselves in mortal danger in order to bring back, for themselves and their societies, both knowledge and treasure. Their stories follow “Hero Journey.” The Odyssey, as the epic story of the hero Odysseus, follows closely the complete cycle of a Hero Journey, both as a physical and as a psychological undertaking. The Hero Journey, used as a framework for both Odysseus’ physical and mental journeys, serves to bind the two together. Each of Odysseus’s physical difficulties can be viewed as a metaphor for a psychological hardship that he must overcome, and by overcoming these hardships, Odysseus matures—achieving a more complete understanding of himself and

In Ancient Greece, there was a set perspective of what a Hero should act like. Homer’s Epic poem, “The Odyssey”, had a character named Odysseus. Odysseus had some qualities that produced a Greek hero: trickiness, compassion, and being a marksman.

“With the personifications of his destiny to guide and aid him, the hero goes forward in his adventure until he comes to the ‘threshold guardian’ at the entrance to the zone of magnified power”. Thus wrote the mythologist Joseph Campbell on the hero’s departure from his home as he ventures into the world of the unknown where he will encounter many challenges. Owing to its form as a nostos, Homer’s Odyssey (trans. Shrewing) conforms to the obverse of this mythological paradigm postulated by Campbell. The challenge for Odysseus is to return, not to his native land of Ithaca, but to the mortal realm away from his heroic past. No scene other than the trial of the marriage bed within Book XXIII more potently illuminates this. For Odysseus’ journey

The Odyssey, by Homer, reveals that the challenges of life and the journey that one goes through are what shape us as people. Everything that people know today was learned from the challenges that people faced in the past. On Odysseus’ journey, he faced Polyphemus, and had to think of a way for him and his crew to escape. In the thick of the moment, Odysseus thinks, “All kinds of schemes and machinations I wove in my wits, for it was life or death, and perdition was close by” (Homer, 115).

Even Odysseus, the brave, noble leader feels emotions. When he thinks in remembrance of his family, he cries and wishes he were with them. Odysseus spends his life on Calypso’s island “on the seashore, weeping, crying aloud for his despair, and always looking out upon the sea” (68). Odysseus can’t handle being without his family, and that pushes him to get home. Calypso even said “My poor fellow, you shall not stay here grieving and fretting your life any longer” (65). Odysseus is granted the ability to leave, thanks to the talk given by “Hermes the messenger” (65) to Calypso. When describing the current events within Odysseus’ home Eumaios says “The house has fallen into the hands of the wicked people” (212). The suitors have become a force that even Odysseus has to exterminate. Odysseus’ men “therefore aimed straight in front of them and threw their spears” (307). Odysseus kills the wicked people, the “young men…suitors” (17) that have turned his house and family

In the odyssey, odysseus faces a lot of obstacles that prevent him from getting home. Similarly in my life, I have obstacles that get in the way of my goals. Odysseus and I both have had to learn how to work around our struggles. Odysseus main goal is to get home to his family. But it was hard for him to get home because of all of the struggles and/or problems he was facing.

In the stories The Odyssey, Divergent, and Moana, each character must face an obstacle that concerns them of making a decision which affects their own family, in order to reach their goal. In The Odyssey, Odysseus left his wife, Penelope for twenty years. Through those twenty years, Odysseus was playing pattycake with some of the goddesses that he was encountered with. While Penelope was at home, waiting for him and staying loyal to their marriage. She was even surrounded by a bunch of suitors who wanted to marry her since they all thought Odysseus was never coming back.

The Children’s Homer, written by Padraic Colum, is a very interesting book because there are many adventures that the characters go on, like Odysseus, the main character. During his life, Odysseus had to face many obstacles and he used his amazing intelligence to overcome them. Obstacles he faces at the battle of Troy, on his journey home, and on his island kingdom, Ithaca all represent his intelligence. The Greeks face a problem during the battle of Troy.

From everyday events, to diseases you will face many “monsters” or obstacles in life. I feel that Homer's poem the Odyssey is like a model for life, it carries you through many obstacles that life can throw at you. While the obstacles Odysseus faces are unrealistic, we can face more realistic obstacles in everyday life. The Odyssey is a book full of obstacles, which is like life itself: a series of obstacles. After I finish highschool, I plan to study law at Yale University, while doing this I will face many obstacles in everyday life. I will face obstacles like illnesses, funding and injuries and other unexpected obstacles. In the Odyssey, Odysseus faced many different obstacles, such as a cyclops, a goddess, sirens, and many others. These obstacles can be compared to the obstacles we will face in every day. From this I can compare the Odyssey to life itself.

Envision a fantasy world, in the middle of a battle with Wonder Woman, to succeed in her initiative of helping the world become a better place for the good of all mankind. Now go back in time, and take a look at Odysseus. Visualize his battle of fighting for selfish needs such as attaining others property. No matter which world situated in, one is going to encounter obstacles that require a sensible personality which leads to success. The Odyssey, written by Homer and Robert Fitzgerald depicts a well-known Greek king of Ithaca and the protagonist, Odysseus who was recognized as a great hero of all time with the qualities of superior strength, intellectual, sensuality, and a necessity of prestige.

In the Odyssey Homer’s epic story of a Greek hero and his trials returning home from the battle of Troy. All through the Odyssey Odysseus must overcome great obstacles with every victory increasing his hero status. Finally at the end of his journey when things should be winding down he has one more obstacle one last task. The suitors have taken over his palace. In the eyes of Odysseus these suitors are usurpers. They are there to take his wife, land, and kingdom.

During Odysseus’s journey in The Odyssey, his own guile, the gods’ obstacles and their assistance for him affected his destiny. Odysseus uses his crafty sense of trickery and guile to get out of situations, which allow him to reach his destiny of returning home. Many times in The Odyssey the gods who dislike Odysseus set obstacles to try to stop him from returning home. However, there are gods who favor him and give him assistance to reach his homeland of Ithaca.

In The Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus must make it back to his home in Ithaca after the battle of Troy. Along his journey, he encounters obstacles that require the upmost perseverance and willpower to survive. Some of these obstacles include a giant cyclops who wants to eat him, lotus-eating peoples that drug his crew, violent storms that

In the book The Author’s Odyssey, the author adds many contrast and contradiction moments. In the four other books before this, one of the main characters, Queen Red Riding Hood, is very egotistical and bossy. In this book, her normal happy self is plagued with pain because her to-be husband, Froggy, was captured in a magic mirror and can not be freed without powerful magic. This contrast quote shows that she is no longer the proud person that she used to be. “But what about Charlie?” King Chandler asked. “How do we get him out of the mirror?” “We can’t,” Red said weakly. “Once you’re imprisoned in a magic mirror, it’s nearly impossible to be freed. It takes powerful magic to put someone inside a mirror, but even more powerful magic to take someone out.” This quote shows that Queen Red is no longer strong and ignorant, bt she is rather dull and heartbroken. It also shows that the author wants to charge up the struggle in the book and add to the hardships of the already-weakened group of heroes and rebels. With this knowledge, the theme that seems to be appearing is never give up.