Justification Of Odysseus Tragic Hero In Homer's Odyssey

After the killing of the wooers, one of Odysseus's priests, Leiodes, despised the wooers for their actions, and refused to obey their orders. Still outraged, Odysseus mercilessly kills Leiodes knowing that he never prayed for Odysseus to come home. Odysseus' actions were not justified, especially because

"Odysseus" was Justified for his action because the "wooers" went into his own property and disrespected it. They were not welcomed in his house and land so there for that is also considered "trespassing" which is against the law. Also on top of that they "vandalized" his things which is another action against the law. They vandalized his things by raping his servants, eating his sheep, and drank his wine. Today if "Odysseus" did this it would not be tolerated and he would be sent to jail, but in this time period you are on your own so he took care of the business that had to be done.

I think that Odysseus' actions were justified because of the actions of the wooers. Without any conformation of him being dead, they first tried to woo his wife. That is very disrespectful and angered Odysseus greatly. Also, the suitors show no respect for his house and belongings. They overtake his house without even thinking about the man of the house, which is disrespectful.

Second of all, he was also justified in his actions because while Odysseus was in Ithaca as the beggar the wooers were making a secret plot to kill his son Telemachus. The wooers believed that if they wanted Penelope to be one of their wives they would have to kill Telemachus. Odysseus not knowing that at the time started to figure it out when all the wooers started to target Telemachus a lot more often. Causing him to become even

When many people get hurt, emotionally, physically, or even verbally, it triggers chemicals in your brain, and whether or not you want to, it makes you want to get revenge just so that you know the other person can hurt just as much as you did. OR you’re just mean and cruel. It all comes down to whether or not you take your anger, sadness or frustration out in a healthy, kind, and careful way. After Odysseus revealed his identity as a beggar, and began hating on all of those people who were involved in taking his home away, and devising a plan to massacre the suitors and reign control of Ithaca, he automatically just made a situation ten times worse than it had to be. The punishment made were way too severe. There must have been so many people that did not deserve it. What Odysseus did was not justified.

The way the wooers treated Odysseus when he was disguised as a beggar justifies him killing them. Odysseus found out some suitors were loyal and some were disloyal, they laughed at him threw things at him and made fun of him. When it is revealed who he really is the suitors try to kill him. This further shows that he had to kill them, they would not have stopped pursuing Penelope and had no respect for him.

First of all, all of the suitors deserved to die because they were all trying to win over another man’s wife without any hard evidence that he wasn't coming back. This scenario is very similar to scenes from television shows, where a man will try to make a pass at a girl then the girl’s partner will go to her and usually punch the other guy in the face. This guy usually does not know the girl is involved with someone else so he doesn't really deserve to get punched. But the wooers deserved to die because there was still a good chance Odysseus would come back and they were trying to marry her not take her out for dinner. Also, it had only been three years since Odysseus had left she was still grieving over him and so none of them actually cared about her because they didn't give her time to get back on her feet.

What kind of human kills for their own good? In the bloody journey of the Odyssey many men were killed by the hands of Odysseus himself. A lot of the men that died were killed by Odysseus but there was a good number of them that were killed by the actions Odysseus made. When it comes down to it Odysseus was wrong for killing the suitors. Odysseus killed the suitors out of his own insecurity, selfishness, and of course out of rage for what was done to him. But what was Odysseus expecting after being gone for 10 years? For everyone to just hold off on their lives just to wait to see if he will be coming back? Odysseus’ actions were not justified.

In the book, Odysseus does nothing out of the goodness of his heart. He is self-centered and ignorant to other people’s values and needs. An example of this is when he didn’t listen to Eurylochus when he told him not to send men to Circe’s island. When Odysseus did send men, they were turned into pigs. Another time when men ended up dying was when he waited at the Cyclops’ home for “gifts.” Lastly, 3 more men died when he tried to fight Scylla after being told not too. In these actions Odysseus acts carelessly and doesn’t account for the lives of his crew members.

My first reason why I believe justice was served was because the wooers were trying to steal his wife Penelope. While Odysseus was on his Odyssey, the wooers took advantage of him being gone to try and take everything that he had. Even though they tried really hard, his wife Penelope never cheated on him. Penelope stayed true to her marriage even though she missed her husband so much. Along with attempting to take his wife, they also ate Odysseus out of house and home.

Odysseus was justified in his actions by severely punishing the wooers. Odysseus had all right to be upset and seek revenge over the wooers. The wooers knew what would happen to them if Odysseus had returned to his kingdom and heard of their wrongdoings but they still continued. Also for them to attack him in his own home as he issued a warning by killing one wooer is not right and is deemed punishable. Even when a wooer tried to apologize and reason with Odysseus the wooer knew he still did him wrong therefore deserved to be punished.

In the closing passages of the Odyssey, the suitors and disloyal servants are punished for their crimes against Odysseus, and it does indeed seem that the death penalty doled out by Odysseus is harsh. However, at this particular period of Greek history, it was expected that each man take his own vengeance against his trespassers as there was no judicial system in place to deal with these problems at the time, therefore it seems justified that as their crimes stretched over a period of nearly 20 years and were directly against xenia, the law of Zeus, that Odysseus take his revenge as he wishes.

“Do you think Odysseus was justified in his actions?” After the battle between Odysseus and the wooers anyone who was associated with the wooers were punished. The old nurse found all the disloyal women and they were later murdered. Before that, they found the goatherd sneaking into the room were the armor, during battle, to bring some to the wooer’s. For that he was tied up and hung from the ceiling by coils. The man was very foolish in his actions to attempt to fight against god-like Odysseus. As for the priest, he was killed after begging for mercy, but the next man who begged for mercy was spared, His name was Phemius. All the punishments brought onto the people were fair and deserved among each one. In that day and age if a crime was committed the punishment was often death, depending what the crime was.

The reason for Odysseus' decision to kill the wooers being “immoral” is because killing another individual out of anger has never really been something that people have considered morally correct. Odysseus should have punished the wooers in

At many points in the epic Odysseus should have stopped and thought about his actions and choices, this could have saved the lives of his fellow soldiers.