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home, his palace, his wife, his son, his people. Ogygia Ulysses is trapped on Calypsos island for many years. If it werent for...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

father. So, by the end of the story what he has done has given him experience and wisdom to deal with a future as a leader. Tel...

an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...

journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemakhos in Ithaka. The gods and goddesses also shape the poem structurally, and are ...

a good person or a bad person, only that he is religious. In another section, much further along in the story, we see Odysseus t...

in this work goes into the Great Families of Mythology and provides information on The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes,...

He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...

Western society, which envisions women as nurturing mothers and helpmates. Rather than being solely concerned with the domestic sp...

Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...

derived from ancient thinkers, as well as the modern conjectures of psychologists and mental health specialists. It is this that m...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at heroism. Odysseus is put forth as an example of both modern and classical ideals of ...

and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...

will marry, her childhood sweetheart who may be a poor tailor, but she is her true love and she will not agree to marry anything l...

to go home. This particular point in the story is approximately halfway through such dangers and journeys and as such it is halfwa...

sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...

portrays him as being. Jacks childhood environment is riddled with dysfunctional elements, everything from domestic violence to ...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

foundation for the story through an examination of the region itself, thus perhaps further adding to a con approach to the charact...

in the ideal image of a male hero or warrior. In both cultures the people were founded in a patriarchal way of life, seeing man as...

In five pages this paper discusses the characteristics of the ideal leader in a consideration of how Odysseus and Moses embody the...

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...

who scorned Bartlebys oddness, comes to allow for the differences that set each person apart from another. Ritter supports this n...

and his lack of desire for monetary gain at their expense. What the student may wish to expound upon at this point is that man is ...

and craft are clear throughout the narrative, but such episodes as her deceiving of the suitors are not considered in the same lig...

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...