Odysseus Motivation In The Odyssey

An personal motivate and outside force that drives the action of a leader or hero in the text “The Odyssey” is Odysseus. Odysseus motive in the text to safely return to his kingdom, back to his wife Penelope, his son Telemachus after his twenty year journey home after the trojan war. As an audience we know that his family and kingdom is his motives because when Odysseus was trapped in the Cyclopes island, where Calypso fell for Odysseus and wanted him to make him her immortal husband and also give him eternal youth. But Odysseus refuses this offer of Calypso because he is determined to return back to his kingdom sinces his happiness lies with his wife and son. This is shown when Calypso says that her godly beauty is greater than Penelope's,

But the most dangerous action that was a barrier towards his motives of going home was with the Cyclopes. This was when his mens were killed from the Cyclopes. This is an example of the danger that Odysseus faces when returning back to his kingdom that also affected the lives of his fellow mens. But this danger we know that fate is also on Odysseus side. We know this because when Odysseus want his four men's to draw the shortest straw, those four mens that was with Odysseus, just happen to draw the shortest straw. This is shown via the example 'Next I told the rest of the men to cast lots, to find out which of them must endure with me to take up the great beam and spin it in the Cyclops' eye when sweet sleep had come over him. The ones drew it whom I myself would have wanted chosen, four men, and I myself was the fifth, and allotted with them.' ( book 9 line 331-335) When Odysseus and the four men's blinded