Pericles And Odysseus Similarities

First similarity we can discuss between Pericles and Odyssey is, at some point in their stories, they were both a castaway, meaning, they both found themselves in a place where they had no power nor shelter. Pericles, who ran away from king Antiochus, lost his pride and status when he found himself surrounded by people from lower classes. He was wet, angry and had no where to go: “Wash 'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath nothing to think on but ensuing death”. What we can analyze from this quote is that Pericles feels kind of betrayed by how bad his life turned out at the moment. We as a reader can think that this might be indeed the worst thing that could happen to Pericles, a prince. We can sympathize with him. It is a state of

One of the major difference that we notice between Pericles and Odysseus in their stories is that Pericles’s, whether it was before he found himself a castaway or after when he found his way back, fate was decided by a king, a mortal. This humanly relation between the characters help the reader to relate easily to the story. No one also intervened in his relationship with Thaisa, he is the one that worked hard to get her attention and he succeeded. I think this plays on the emotional appeal. The reader can relate to Pericles’s feelings and can understand how hard this might have

Being able to compare such characters can lie in the fact that they were both a castaway at some point in their glorious lives and both were saved by a love that appeared as a result of such disdain. Contrasting them, on the other hand, is explained by a godly versus humanly intervention. For Pericles, there were no Gods that banished him or saved him. For Odysseus, however, in both situations it was an involvement of the Gods. This dissimilarity between the two characters can help ex plain why some readers, in my opinion, will fell that Pericles is more relatable than