Response To Literature: The Story Of The Odyssey

Response to Literature The story of The Odyssey is a very controversial topic in Greek mythology, it is said to have many changes from how the poet Homer describes what happened and how Hollywood was able to add and discontinue their own ideas into the myth. The main conflict in The Odyssey comes from the main character Odysseus. Who has an internal conflict with himself on the flaws of being a tragic hero. Odysseus contains tragic flaws, which include his eagerness to taste victory and many acts of injustice to return home; these flaws negatively impact the story by losing sight on his home Ithaca and performing adultery. Odysseus is a tragic hero that is described as a character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his own destruction. He forces his men into difficult challenges that mainly could be avoided, but with his cunning personality his men cave into the temptation of tasting victory no matter the cost. Odysseus goes to great lengths and takes unnecessary risks like traveling to Hades to find an alternate route back to Ithaca.

Most of the gods in fact aren’t even on Odysseus’s side; they are actually trying to advance his defeat and to make sure he doesn’t reach Ithaca’s beaches. There are very few gods that are willing to aid in Odysseus’s journey to reunite with his family, most in which are only helping because they want to show their strength to the other gods that oppose of Odysseus’s success. This is significant with Odysseus’s blindness to have a sensitive connection with his men who would lay down their own lives to ensure Odysseus’s