Anti Hero In The Odyssey

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Often when people keep important details from their team they’re not considered a role model or a hero. In the Odyssey written by homer, Odysseus is the protagonist. During the beginning he is depicted as a hero after defeating the Trojans in the Trojan War. But on the way back to his home, Ithaca, he made a god also known as Poseidon, mad. So instead of taking less than a year to get home, it took 10 years. And on his journey back to his homeland, he becomes more of an anti-hero. In the Odyssey, during his journey back, Odysseys turns into an anti-hero because of his arrogance and unfaithfulness.
All through his journey, Odysseys displays his arrogance multiple times instead of instead of having modesty. Before Odysseys and his crew left Cyclopes island, he …show more content…

While Penelope on the other hand waited 20 years and didn’t ever cheat on him with any other guy. As he advanced on his journey into book 12, he then became unfaithful to his crew. He became unfaithful to them when they were on their way to the six-headed monster named Scylla, Odysseus withheld important information from them and he thinks, “but as I sent them towards Scylla, I told them nothing”
(12.161-162). As they went forward with their journey, only he knew what was going to happen.
He didn’t tell them that they would encounter Scylla or that six of them would die when they encountered her. On his journey back home to Ithaca, he become unfaithful to those that were the most faithful to him through it all.
If it was up to you would, you consider someone a role model or even a hero when they keep important details from their team or crew. Odysseus should not be considered a hero, one reason is because he has a lot of arrogance, instead having humility or a low view on his own importance. Another he shouldn’t be considered a hero is through his journey

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