The Odyssey Argumentative Essay
To be a good leader, you must have a good personality, With the correct intentions. A leader is someone who encourages his peers to do better. A leader also should guide his peers, and keeping them safe, and give credit when due. However, Odysseus put his men in lots of danger and led them in the wrong direction numerous times.
Odysseus also makes a selfish decision when he leads his crew to stay in Polyphemus’s cave thinking he would offer gifts and Odysseus would “accept (his) help, or any gifts/” he had to “give”‘Why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? We’ll drive the kids and lambs aboard. We say put out again on good saltwater!’ Ah, how sound that was! Yet I refused.” book9 line 126 Odysseus and his men went into
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While the men sleep, Circe takes Odysseus aside to hear about the underworld and to offer advice. “Then said the Lady Circe: ‘So: all those trials are over. Listen with care to this, now, and a god will arm your mind. Square in your ship’s path are Sirens, crying beauty to bewitch men coasting by; woe to the innocent who hears that sound! He will not see his lady nor his children in joy, crowding about him, home from sea; the Sirens will sing his mind away on their sweet meadow lolling. There are bones of dead men rotting in a pile beside them and flayed skins shrivel around the spot. Steer wide; keep well to seaward; plug your oarsmen’s ears with beeswax kneaded soft; none of the rest should hear that song.”(book12 lines 1-15) Odysseus received a gift from the wind god. He did not tell his men what the gift was so they opened it out of curiosity. Leaving them in the dark like this was not a great idea, He keeps things from them which causes a communication barrier. Communication plays a huge part in being a leader keeping things from his men caused them to be curious and that led to a major