It was Good vs. Evil for monsters who tormented the kingdom for years there time was done. King Beowulf was in another battle with the dragon Good vs. Evil where the evil dragon infuriated because some thieves tried to take some of his many treasures he ended there life and the good king Beowulf defeated the Evil dragon. It was Good vs.
Odysseus was widely known to the ancient Greeks for helping defeat Troy with his idea of the Trojan horse to get King Menelaus’ wife, Helen, back from Paris, the prince of Troy. It took Odysseus ten years to win the war and ten years to reach his homeland, Ithaca, and return to his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus. During these twenty years, Odysseus has chosen to make many bad decisions and choices yet he was blessed by the gods and helped by his mentor Athena and safely reached Ithaca but lost all his comrades and friends. Odysseus reached Ithaca to find his home occupied by ruthless, arrogant suitors! Aggravated, Odysseus carefully planned a trap with the help of two loyal men and killed all the suitors.
He killed his wife's suitors and finally got to see his son, Telemachu, that he left when he was just a baby to go fight in the Trojan War. He killed and fought his way through the wrath of Poseidon to get home to the ones he loved and that is why he is an epic hero. As you can see he has plenty accomplishments there are more and better than
Out of curiosity him and his man evaded the Cyclops house looking for food, or treasure. While trespassing Polyphemus demand reasoning behind their appearance. The giant eating two of Odysseus man. He is tempted to kill the Cyclops, if he would’ve killed the Cyclops they will be trapped inside the cave. Only the Cyclops could move the rock to the entrance of his cave it was so heavy.
The epic poem The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin, Ulysses is a man on a 20 year journey to return to his home of Ithaca, reunite with his son and reclaim his throne from his wife’s suitors. Along the way Ulysses meets monsters and must complete many quests. All the while, the gods are constantly interfering with Ulysses’ endeavors. What leads to Ulysses’ troubles are his mistakes. He often has errors in his judgement that allow adverse situations to take place.
Living a life with immortals and Gods around you, it was not ordinary to be a mortal and carry the strength of a God. He fights the monster Cyclops, the suitors who are going behind is back at home and trying to steal his wife, sleep with Circe to save his men who has been transformed to swine. He clearly demonstrates bravery when he crosses through the strait because he knows he is risking being killed by Scylla and Charybis. When Odysseus fights with suitor, there were many suitors. He carried out the plan anyway, showed his bravery and put aside his fears.
Another example that shows Odysseus being a clever hero is when Odysseus and his men have to escape from the Cyclops. Since Odysseus stabbed the Cyclops in the eye, the Cyclops was blinded, but the Cyclops blocked the entrance to the cave he was feeling everything that went past him. Odysseus was in a predicament and he had to find a way to escape, so Odysseus came up with the clever idea of putting one man under three sheep so that the Cyclops would feel his sheep and not Odysseus and his men as they escaped. Once Odysseus and his men escaped, they returned to their ships and continued their
The journeys are different as well and the travels are very unalike but strongly resemble each other. The epic hero of The Odyssey was the King of Ithaka, known as Odysseus. Odysseus endured a heroic journey after succeeding in the Trojan War, then being abducted for 20 years on an unknown territory and finally after enduring many challenges and obstacles returns to long awaited beloved wife Penelope. Where-as, the epic hero of “O, Brother Where Art Thou?” is Everett Ulysses McGill who recently escaped prison who was arrested for practicing law without a degree and tries to return home to his
The almighty kept the demons out, but soon split into different forms of evil. The evil opposed the Lora’s will and Defeated again and again. Later, Grendel and Herot had a conversation about what the warrior’s next move was going to be. He found them sound asleep and suspected nothing. The monsters soon slipped though the door and silently killed thirty men and ran with there bodies while the was dripping.
Odysseus, the epic hero in Homer’s Odyssey is a figure who could be considered larger than life. His legend begins during the ten year Trojan War, and continues through ten long years during his attempt to return to his kingdom on Ithaca, to his wife Penelope and to his son Telemachus. Throughout Odysseus’ ten year long struggle to return home, as told in The Odyssey, he proves himself to be an epic hero, even though he occasionally behaves like a mere mortal. A hero possesses many traits. Odysseus showed that he was crafty or cunning in the Cyclop’s cave when gets the Cyclops drunk and tells him that his name is Nhobdy.