Poseidon must have loved Odysseus; cursing him to never return home is a great way to show it. He is a hero in his eyes for sure. In the movie “Hercules” from Walt Disney, Zeus said to Hercules that he isn’t a true hero unless he gives up something he holds dear to his life. So what did Odysseus do to make Odysseus a hero? Sleeping with other women beside his wife. Killing his men. Or saying to the Poseidon that he won the Trojan War when really the gods did. It sounds like he does a lot of heroic things in his life…NOT. If you think he is a hero, you better pay close attention he isn't.
Odysseus sounds like a hero when hedoes courageous things; but what he does is mostly stupid. When Odysseus was at the Cyclops Island, he could have got the things he needed and leave. He didn’t. He stayed and lost half his men to the Cyclops. Stupid. Plain stupid. “Ah, how sound it was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – not pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends.” Also even though it was courageous that he stayed there and beat the Cyclops by poking him in the eye, but it could have cost him his life. Odysseus should have kept on traveling trying to find a way home.
Also when Odysseus was traveling the earth to find a way home, he helped people which made him seem heroic. Circle changed all of his men into animals; he had to sleep with her. It was right thing to do- even though he didn’t want to do it. But no hero would have betrayed his wife. Another example of Odysseus helping people is when he tried to control his son temper. If he didn’t his son would have died. At the end they both killed the guest out of anger because they all wanted to marry Penelope, Odysseus wife. Hercules wouldn’t have done that. A hero wouldn’t have either.
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