Hubris In The Odyssey

The Odyssey informed me as both a student and a person because I learned about how to improve as a person, how to be successful, and how to be happy. Reading the Odyssey helped me improve as a person because I learned that Hubris is a negative quality to have. Hubris is excessive pride or self-confidence. While writing my Odyssey essay about how Hubris is a harmful personality trait, I understood how I should avoid having Hubris. This characteristic interferes with Odysseus’s ability to return home. He couldn’t resist calling out to the Cyclops Polyphemus due to his greed for glory when he had finally escaped from his lair. He just needed Polyphemus to know that it was the great Odysseus that escaped him. This arrogance caused the cyclops to

I’ve learned to always try to avoid having Hubris, as it just jeopardizes myself and the people around me. This is important because Hubris is immoral and can obstruct the lives of people around me. Reading the Odyssey also helped me learn how to be successful because it taught me that without striving for excellence, I’ll never reach it. While writing my Telemachia essay about how Telemachus, Odysseus’s son, only reached supremacy when he went on his journey to achieve it. Telemachus was inadequate until he got up and traveled in seek of his father, in which he reached excellence along the way. The search for his father became a metaphor for the search for his identity. At the end of book 4, he has grown into a man ready to be the true son of Odysseus, by learning how to respect royalty, learning that people and gods will help one along their journey, and about respect to the gods, which all helped him reach full maturity. My essay helped me learn that maturity and learning cannot be achieved without going on a journey to help aid personal growth. Telemachus experienced this first hand. This is crucial because being successful is our number one goal in