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Why Is Odysseus A Bad Leader

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Would you ever trust your leader if he keeps angering the same powerful gods over and over again? In the story The Odyssey the main character Odysseus, is a bad leader because he likes to blame other people for his own mistakes, he is cocky, and he does not learn from his mistakes

The first reason why Odysseus is a bad leader is because he blames other people for his mistakes. For example in the text, it says “O’ Father Zeus and gods in bliss forever, you made me sleep away this day of mischief!”(686) This quotation shows that Odysseus is a scapegoater. This makes him a bad leader because he doesn’t admit when he’s wrong and tries to blame it on other people even though its his falt, and by doing that he keeps angering the gods and gets himself and his crew in trouble because the gods keep on destroying his ships …show more content…

In the text, it says “If ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes’ son, whose home’s on Ithaca!”(669). This quotation shows that Odysseus is cocky. This makes him a bad leader because by revealing his identity and his hom of him and his crews’ home, he gave Polyphemus enough information to be able to pray to his father Poseidon to never let Odysseus reach his home Ithaca and also for him to lose all of his companions. So by revealing all of this info, he has cursed his crew and himself and put all of them in

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