¨men are so quick to blame the gods they say that we advice there misery, but
They them selves in there depravity design greif grater than fate assigns.in the epic
poem odyssey by homer there is a man named odysseus forced to fight in the trojan war
and he's there for 10 years. After he wins the war he Then tries to get home, but the gods
have other ideas for odysseus and his men. they face hard challenges but he makes it
back to ithaca to see his son and his wife once again.
Odyssey is clever because, he outsmarted the cyclops by giving him wine to drink
and the cyclops fell asleep.odysseus came up with a plan to get out of the cave, the only
person who could move the stone door was …show more content…
This shows that the gods take
serious measures if you don't thank any of them in odyssey case he didn't thank poison so
he got exceedingly mad so he wants odysseus and his men to suffer for 10 years to see
odysseys crack , if you do the crime you pay the time. Though odyssey asked numerous
times why the gods are doing this he still doesn't thank them for all they done . Though
odysseus is arrogant he is super determined to reach ithaca home safe.
Odyssey is determined such as when odyssey started to get lost he so badly
wanted to get back home with penelope and telemachus thats why hes alive and fighting to
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get back home. This shows he's very motivated because he searches for them for almost
20 years and even makes it to ithaca but doesn't tell penelope to protect her and protect
himself from all the shooters that want to take his life and is wife. In addition odyssey killed
all the suters to make certain that he would have this throne and not have it taken over. This
shows that he's still very committed to ithaca after 20 years at sea. He would be willing to
kill just to have his old life back again and if i was in odyssey shoes i would understand