The Honorable Odysseus of Homer's Odyssey Essay

Odysseus’ action are justified because they were trying to marry his wife Penelope. They did this even though he was still alive. The wooers also kept pushing her to get married even though she said she does not want to marry them. Not only that, they planned on killing Odysseus if he comes home.

Odysseus was the strong and powerful king of Ithaca. He was a courageous and loyal warrior who was known for his being able to outsmart his opponents. Odysseus returned to home after an almost twenty year absence to find that his home and kingdom had been taken over. He became enraged at the wooers, especially Antonius and the handmaidens at their total lack of disrespect for his home, kingdom and family. Odysseus decided that killing all who were disloyal to him was the only way to gain back control of his kingdom. For this reason I feel that Odysseus was justified in his actions.

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.

I think Odysseus was not justified for his action. Yes the wooers were wrong but there was no need to brutally murder them. There are less harsh ways that were easily just. Even though multiple individuals were trying to marry Odysseus's wife he had no right to kill them. The important thing is that she waited those 10 years for you.

To occupy someone’s home in their place is very disrespectful. Odysseus slayed the women and the men and did it without regard. I believe this punishment was not harsh but was justified. When Atinoos, who tried to have Telemachus killed, was slain by Odysseus, the wooers begged for mercy and forgiveness but Odysseus slain them for following him. Odysseus was so over whelmed with hate and disgust that he acted in the manner of killing all those lusting for Penelope, trying to hurt his son and disrespecting his home, maybe the power of having Gods in his veins gave him the brutal strength he had.

Yes i do believe they deserved there punishment they were rude and disrespectful as there King was away for some time. I do believe that when Odysseus killed the maids he was really harsh on the he could of slit there throats or

He does things for his own self, without realizing, that his wife Penelope is still waiting for him.“ She swore the oath at once; and when she had sworn the oath full and fairly, I entered the bed of Circe. “ (128) Odysseus fell into the temptation and was not concerned about how Penelope might feel if she knew what he did. Odysseus is not being fair to his wife, and is being very selfish. His crew of men that he has traveled along with are seeing what he is doing, and he is not being a good example. Odysseus is not being a good leader by cheating on his wife, and is misleading his group of men. Odysseus is very intelligent, and a great war leader, but not a good role model. Therefore, Odysseus is a bad

In the novel “Odyssey” a man named Odysseus was in disguise and pretended to be someone else. His home was taken over by a group of people named the wooers. After Odysseus went on a long journey for many years, he finally revealed his identity. He got revenge on the wooers and killed them all as their punishment. Odysseus finally claimed his home back but he lost friends and family on his journey, so he was justified in killing the wooers. Everyone that was involved with the wooers received their punishment and everyone that was killed did deserve it. Killing the wooers seems very harsh but when you consider how long Odysseus was on his journey and during that time how many of his family and his men were killed, Odysseus’ actions seem justifiable.

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.

In The Odyssey, towards the end of the story Odysseus finally reveals his identity to everyone. After doing so he proceeds by punishing and kill all the wooers that were trying to take his wife's hand in marriage. Despite all that Odysseus has gone through, and all the stress that his wife had to deal with was this really the right thing to do? Was this the correct way to serve justice? Odysseus went overboard with how he treated the wooers, it was immoral, unnecessary and a waste of human life.

He wants to kill them on the spot for their disgrace, but the goddess Athena advises him to be patient, and that the suitors will be punished (930). Odysseus obeys and waits patiently, until the goddess gives him the chance to extract his revenge upon all the suitors, finally bringing justice to his house. By listening to the goddess, he is rewarded with the taking back of his home and is reunited with his wife. As you can see from these examples, when Odysseus obeyed and respected the gods in this epic, they rewarded him and helped him to complete his long journey

Odysseus, a man that couldn’t get home for many years and had his beloved home controlled but rude and incompetent suitors, had all rights to do what he has done. Killing the suitors; the ones that ate his livestock, those that destroyed his home, those that took advantage of many maids, and those all that tried to take a wife that was grieving for her husband that was lost at sea; was all in justice according to Odysseus. In my opinion Odysseus’s actions were all perfectly justifiable. The punishment for the betraying maids on other hand was to rash or harsh. Hanging each traitorous woman was a little too much. I thinking rationally, would torment them as long as they lived, making them do difficult jobs even for men. But seeing that that

Odysseus’s is morally wrong but in a way politically correct. His morals are not to kill everyone in sight, but politically speaking, he did what would be considered legal. The suitors were in his house with his wife, trying to marry her while he was still alive. His problem was that while he probably should have done something more honorable such as banish them or just force them out of his home, he did the morally incorrect thing and decimated them, thus making the village angry. While it is possible in the slightest of manners that he committed this act due to moral reasons, it is much more possible that it is a political act.

Near the end of this chapter when he has finished off all of the suitors, (mostly with the aid of Athena), Odysseus feels he has prevailed as the winner, righted the wrong. At one point he exclaims "these men the doom of the gods has brought low, and their own indecent acts. They'd no regard for any man who chanced come their way. And so thanks to their reckless work, they met their shameful fate."(435-438). The irony of this quote is the fact that he is

Yes it was harsh for Odysseus to brutally kill all of the maids and suitors but they deserved it. The maids treated the suitors like they were kings and obeyed their every desire which is not what their king would want of them. The suitors disobeyed the rules of hospitality and on top of that attempt to murder his son and marry his wife. They were slobs and got what they