As he is saying this, his hubris is beginning to creep up on him because he thinks he is the best person ever after tricking Polyphemus. His crew is seeing this and begins to warn him of what is happening (Homer 769) yet he disregards their warnings. His hubris then takes full control as he says, “Cyclops, / 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
Arrogance is a vise that people deal with on a daily basis. It’s a normal weakness that people have. Creon shows us the dangers of this vice and proves the point that any normal weakness can lead to a person’s downfall. Antigone’s message is clear: It is important to set egos a side and listen to the council of others. Creon had so much power that his ego became so enormous that he truly
Odysseus and his Leadership Skills Odysseus and his abysmal leadership and decisions are what plunges he and his crew into a downward spiral that leads to death and disappointment. This story of the descent, then rebirth of the hero Odysseus is told in Homer’s epic, The Odyssey. Odysseus shows throughout the novel that he still believes he is the bright, young, and omnipotent miracle worker he was back in the trojan war. However, this mindset is destructive, and incapacitates him. Making Odysseus take every risk he is able to take, whether it’s necessary or not.
When Odysseus and his men are clearly safe away from the island Odysseus brags about his successful feat. Polythemus hears this and launches giant boulders in the direction of the ship. Some came very close to sinking the ship, yet that was not enough for Odysseus. Blinded by his pride he unwisely revealed his identity to Polythemus. With that Polythemus called upon his father, Poseidon, to seek revenge on the man who had harmed him.
You and me, we let the evil people win every time! We rely on everyone else to be the bullied person’s knight in shining armour. But what if their knight in shining armour never comes? And they feel worse and worse until they can’t take it anymore.
One, for instance, is when Zeus complains about the mortal beings to the other gods. He says how “reckless”(78) they are and how they always put blame on the gods. He said, “How shameless--the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes, but they themselves, with their own reckless ways, compound their pains beyond their proper share.”(78) Zeus clearly explains his whole hearted resentment towards the mortal beings that blame them. Although it seems that way, he is clearly thrilled that the mortals still think of them everyday.
Wow I feel for Achilles I was mad at my brother and it takes me forever to forget about it, just like Achilles. Achilles is bold for standing up to Agamemnon like that. Blindness infers weakness to some people, and that’s what I think Achilles meant is that he sees his weakness which is that he sees things when there here happening now but that he cannot trust anyone or see into the future himself. When the foremost Greek hero sees his avenue to greatness he then realizes that it is too late to do anything about
Cassius mocks Brutus’s honour in order to manipulate him to join the conspiracy. To indicate this, Cassius says ‘we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonourable graves’. Cassius uses ‘peep’ and ‘petty’ to direct themselves as weak and helpless compared to the powerful Caesar. The strong onomatopoeia of the ‘p’ is used in order to make those words specifically stand out in order to make Brutus aware of what Cassius thinks of themselves compared to Caesar, which could upset him as he believes that all men are equal. The use of ‘walk under’ metaphorically represents that they are lower class to Caesar and that he is in control of everything.
He was very brutal: "Would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now / to hack your flesh away and eat you raw"(22.408-409). He was the mightiest of the Greeks and he had such a great deal of confidence in him that he decided to act on his own when his slave princess was taken away. Because of his self confidence; he failed to act like a common man. Achilles’ refusal to eat with other warriors suggests that he put his ego before everyone else. He fits the description of Aristotle's quote “the man who is incapable of working in common”.
The mind of Alexander the Great is an enigma. For a man that shows such compassion for his troops and the men and women of Macedon, he shows a relentless hatred for his enemies. He seems at times, so blinded by his victory that he has no thoughts of the destruction that he causes. It is difficult to comprehend that his love for one of his family or friends can so quickly turn to hate that he would have them executed without even thinking. Another puzzling aspect of his personality was that he was absolutely obsessed with conquering other nations that he would be able to leave his home for over eleven years to attempt to achieve his goal of total world rule.