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Strategic Qualities Of Odysseus

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While Odysseus demonstrates that he’s strategic throughout the story, he also displays that he’s arrogant; however, these traits make Odysseus survive his journey. One of Odysseus’s positive traits is being strategic, As Odysseus is in the cyclops’s house, he pours the cyclops three bowls of wine to get him drunk & the cyclops drinks the wine. Homer, Author of The Odyssey, demonstrates that Odysseus is strategic by clarifying “Three bowls I brought him & he poured them down”(569). Odysseus & his crew being trapped brought the strategic trait out of Odysseus by Odysseus needing to do something to get out of the cyclops’s house or else he and his crew would have died. In addition to Odysseus being strategic he’s also very loyal, Homer, Author of The Odyssey, demonstrates that Odysseus is loyal by portraying “Put heart in me to eat & drink, you may by freeing my companions, I must see them”(1.92.93). …show more content…

Odysseus’s crew being turned into pigs brought the loyal trait out of him because he needed to get his crew out of a spell that turned them into pigs and he was ready to sacrifice himself. Another one of Odysseus's traits is him being arrogant, as Odysseus is on his boat outside, he boasts about taking the cyclops’s eyesight to the cyclops. Homer, Author of The Odyssey, demonstrates Odysseus's arrogance by asserting “If ever martial man inquire how you were put to shame & blinded, tell him Odysseus took your eye”(574). Odysseus being arrogant affects his journey because sometimes he cares too much for fame, in addition to Odysseus being arrogant he’s also very easily distractabe as

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