Disloyalty Quotes In The Odyssey

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What would you do in a world where there weren’t any heroes? Without them we would not know who is trustworthy or who to look up on. In The Odyssey, by Homer, the main character, Odysseus, From being disloyal, audacious, and arrogant by not taking other’s advice, Odysseus’ mistakes have outweighed his heroic deeds made along the journey. Throughout the long twenty year journey, Odysseus’ disloyalty has grown a fair amount. Penelope, Odysseus’ wife, was trustworthy. She had no clue when Odysseus would be home yet she still kept her word by not having affairs with other men. However, Odysseus was on the opposite side of things. He had affairs with both Calypso and Circe. A time to show his disloyalty is when he states, “Though I have been detained long by Calypso, / loveliest among goddesses, who held me / in her smooth caves, to be her heart's delight, / as Circe of Aeaea, the enchantress, /desired me, and detained me in her hall. / But in my heart I never gave consent” (18-23). These words show that even though he …show more content…
He is self centered, cocky, and conceited by not taking others advice. An evidence of him not taking someone's consultation is when he fights Scylla after Circe tells him not to. Circe informs Odysseus with the information about Scylla and Charybdis yet he is cocky and thinks him and his men can get through them without losing any of the crew. Another example is when Eurylochus begs Odysseus to leave Circe’s Island after telling him that all of the men got turned into pigs. Odysseus ignores Eurylochus’ input and goes into the palace. In The Odyssey it states, “Eurylochus tells Odysseus what has happened and begs him to sail away from Circe’s island. Against this advice, however, Odysseus rushes to save his men from the enchantress” (46-48). Eurylochus doesn’t want Odysseus to get turned into a pig as well, however Odysseus’ arrogant self believes he can save his men
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