Most journeys are about people wanting to get away from home, and to become independent, but Odysseus and Inman's ambitions are slightly different. Inman's journey and Odsseus's journey are similar in many ways, but the differences is what makes them unique to each man. Odysseus's journey is about him making it home, alive, to his kingdom and wife back in Ithaca. After the Trojan war he was captured by Calyspo and took him to her Island. While Odysseus was trapped on Calyspo's Island, Ithaca was left without a king, and his wife, Penelope, was left alone with suitors. A few years later, Odysseus finally left the island making a grueling journey trying to make it home. Odysseus and his men encountered many obstacles. These obstacles include, …show more content…
Both men were coming home from a war they had fought very hard in. Both were coming home to their loved ones, whom they cared for very much. Both men had companions, Inman had Veasly and Odysseus had his crew, but Veasly and Odysseus's crew perished as they were on the journeys. Both men were very determined to get back to their comforting homes. Both men come close to dying, but I believe their ambitions were too strong to just give up. Inman had a wound in his neck, and a gunshot wound in his shoulder. Odysseus almost dies with Scylla, the Sirens, the Laestrygonias, and many more life threatening monsters. A trait about both men have is perseverance, they will do anything to reach their possibly impossible goal. Odysseus shows perseverance by enduring challenges as mentioned earlier, yet he never stops. Inman floats in the same boat as Odysseus. Both men were very lustful. Odysseus shows his lustful by staying on Calyspo's island as a sexslave for years, even when he could have left. Inman shows his lustful side when he is in the whorehouse and during his meal one of the girls enters and he puts his greasy hand on her thigh, Inman stops and stares at the handprint on her thigh, which shows his lustful
Around the 1200 B.C., Odysseus was sailing the Mediterranean Sea for the purpose of reaching home. In his long narrative poem, The Odyssey, Homer conveys how Odysseus desperately wishes to go home to Ithaca. However, he faces brutal treatment and obstacles from several different antagonists, and more obstacles appear when he reaches home. Odysseus came across many external conflicts, which he dealt with intelligence, determination, and loyalty.
Both men show willpower in realizing their goals. Odysseus's target is returning to Ithaca to his beloved wife and son. He overcomes many
In the movie and the book Odysseus does a lot of the same thing. Odysseus is known to be a hero and to either win or lose. He usually has a victory, he is a very smart man who thinks everything through before going through with it. Victory motivates Odysseus. He wants to return home and live well in Ithaca. In the movie and book one of the things he does the
As aforementioned Penelope is the main reason for Odysseus's return to Ithaca, as well as wanting to be united with his son Telemakos. He is driven throughout his entire journey to go back and see his wife. Odyssey even goes as far to turn down the gift immortality with the beautiful Calypso in order to continue with journey home:
After a long journey back from the Trojan War, he encounters superhuman beings, luring traps and sea beasts. Finally he reached his home land of Ithaca, where he kills suitors trying to court his wife. After the suitors are dead, Odysseus confronts his wife, Penelope, but she still refuses to acknowledge his reality. Finally she knows he is real because Odysseus tells her about their
Although, Odysseus has compared the goddess and Penelope his longing to go home has not changed, “Yet, it is true, each day I long for home, long for the sight of home” (line 228-229). Through Odysseus’ journey, he does not forget home. He knows more tasks are ahead and he is ready to face them, “If any god has marked me out again for shipwrecked, my tough heart can undergo it. What hardship have I not long since endured at sea, in battle! Let the trial come.” This heroic ending grasp the readers’ attention to see that Odysseus is willing to do whatever it takes to go home to Penelope. The love he has for his home land shows his determination and dedication.
While Odyesseus was gone his son Telemachus has grown into a man and his wife Penelope is overwhelmed by suitors who think Odysseus is dead. These suitors have been living in Odysseus’ home eating his food trying to overrun his palace. While Poseidon is away from Olympus, Penelope convinces the other gods to help Odysseus return home. In disguise in Ithaca, she convinces Telemachus to look for his father. Telemachus goes to Pylos and finds out that Odysseus is being held prisoner by Calypso. Zeus orders that Odysseus be allowed to go home so he leaves on a raft.
Odysseus’s character traits resemble the common arrogant hero. He is flashy and cares greatly on how others see him. Odysseus is not afraid to show his pride and use his skills when killing others. Inman, however, is the opposite of a war, hero as he flees from war. Inman has grown sick of war and the violence and just wants to return home to his wife and be mended. Inman feared that war made him a bitter killer and Adda may not grow fond of the new Inman that war had broken. “You could become so lost in bitterness and anger that
Odysseus’s journey home started when he was getting ready to set sail and leave Troy after the Trojan War. Odysseus shouts how he solved the war all by himself without any help from the gods. He is arrogant about their victory which angers Poseidon. Poseidon, along with other gods, curses his journey home.
During Odysseus’ journey in ‘The Odyssey’, Odysseus runs into a couple problems. He leaves home ready to fight in the Trojan War. Although he had plans on coming home, he never made it home. His wife Penelope and his son Telemachus assumed that Odysseus was dead. It was not until Athena came to Telemachus and gave him everything he needed to make it to his dad. What Telemachus did not know was that Odysseus wanted to come home, but he could not because he was being held prisoner on an island named Ogygia. Odysseus wants nothing more to return home and see his lovely wife Penelope.
The journey of Odysseus from The Odyssey and Inman from Cold Mountain are very similar to each other. The top ways they are similar is in the ultimate destination both protagonists have in their journey, the motivations that help them, and the challenges both characters face.
Odysseus arrives on Calypso’s island alone, after the loss of his men and ship. Calypso rescues him and loves and cares for him in her cave. At first, it seems like Odysseus doesn’t seem much to mind her taking care of him, but over time it is plainly evident that he is unhappy with her. When Hermes arrives on Calypso’s island to give her the message from Zeus to release Odysseus, he is bawling on the beach a day-long activity for him. Calypso is holding him with her by force; she has no companions to help him back to Ithaka, nor has she a ship to send him in. Athena pleads with Zeus to give Odysseus good fortune, saying that "he lies away on an island suffering strong pains in the palace of the nymph Kalypso, and she detains him by constraint, and he cannot make his way to his country, for he has not any ships by him, nor any companions who can convey him back
Many of those character traits are shared between the two males. One example of these shared character traits includes the fact that the two protagonists are very intelligent. Both Odysseus and Inman proved their ability to think on their feet many times throughout their journey. Odysseus proved he was a quick thinker when he figured out how to escape the cyclop. Polyphemus’s cave when the giant trapped Odysseus and his men as hostages to eat.
Odysseus’s strong desire to return to his family inspires foreign rulers to assist Odysseus in returning home. Odysseus states, “Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days— / to travel home and see the dawn of my return” to Calypso (5.242-234). Odysseus stayed with the goddess Calypso as her “unwilling lover” until he leaves on a raft (5.172; 179-187). Calypso grants Odysseus leave from her island because he is in grieving over being separated from his family. Odysseus lands in Phaeacia after leaving Calypso’s island. While begging for passage home, Odysseus says, “How far away I’ve been / from all my loved ones—how long I have suffered” (7.180-181). King Alcinous
There have been many proposed theories to the great hero Odysseus’ return to Ithaca. Odysseus has wandered long and far to make his return to his home soil. He fought Cyclopes, fled from cannibalistic Giants, spent seven years on a nearly deserted island, and literally went to hell and back just to breathe the air of his motherland. There has been great debate on what kept the enduring hero from giving up. He could have accepted his fate as an immortal on the Island of Calypso or allowed his will power to dwindle and fallen into the jaws of Charybdis. What did the hero truly desire so much that he refused the will of the Gods to reach his native land. It was his beloved wife Penelope.