Essay On Odysseus Is A Modern Hero

[Morales]

Brilliant, Strong, Heroic, but still not good enough for a Modern Hero. A modern hero is brilliant, strong, rules himself, and does good for sake of others. A modern hero acts not upon his own interests, but upon justice and human emotions. A modern hero learns from his mistakes. In The Odyssey, Odysseus encounters himself in the midst of many confrontations that he overcomes with a heroic outlook. While he is strong and brilliant these characteristics are not what make up a modern hero. Although Odysseus does have attributes that bestow with those of a modern hero, he falls short. The Greek culture embodies his actions as heroic and modern hero like, but his characterization, to the reader doesn’t appear as a modern hero as he is more like a powerless savage human who can only think of himself but is nothing without the power of the gods. Odysseus most heroic moment was marley like a modern hero one it was only an organic moment that even then showed his real asshat self. As Odysseus and his men get trapped in Polyphemus cave his strength and brilliance come to help him but his arrogance and ego is still present

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And as he was struggling to get out of the water “She stayed the paths of the other winds, and bade them all cease and be lulled to rest” there Odysseus was able to survive because of Athena’s powers. This shows he is not prone to human weakness. This also clearly shows he is not to short to be a modern hero, because he requires the help of a goddess daughter of Zeus “she roused the swift North Wind, and broke the waves before him, to the end that Zeus-born” showing his weakness as he gets help from one of the most powerful one time after another. This in seen all throughout the story even at the beginning of the story thanks to Athena’s power over her dad she was able to make a plan and for