Change In Odysseus In Homer's The Odyssey

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Over a lifetime, people grow into smart people with different personalities and different interests. In The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus does something just like that. Faced with many hardships and rough decisions to make, Odysseus has to either become different for the better or stay the same forever. The definition of change is to make or become different. Over time in the epic, Odysseus changes for the better of his future. Before Odysseus returned home, he didn’t care and simply nothing mattered. When he returned home, he was a completely different person. His change to himself got him home to his wife and son as a more mature person. The first change that Odysseus receives is having better judgment. Homer states, “Odysseus does not tell his men of Circe’s last prophecy-- that he will be the only survivor” (780). When Odysseus and his men leave Circe’s island to finish their journey home, Odysseus chooses not to tell his men that they are all going to die because they could bail on him. He does not let them know that six of them are going to die no matter what when they pass Scylla and Charybdis. This proves that by him not telling the members of his crew that he they are going to die and never …show more content…

In The Odyssey, Homer says, “But when he knew when heard Odysseus’ voice nearby, he did his best to wag his tail, nose down, with flattened ears, with no strength to move nearer his master. And the man looked away, wiping a salt tear from his cheek; but he hid this from Eumaeus” (1049-1055). The man that wiped away the salt tear was no other than Odysseus himself. When Odysseus returned home he saw the dog that he trained so well before he left just laying there practically dying. Before Odysseus returned home, he didn’t feel much sympathy for anyone or anything. This proves that Odysseus has changed because before he probably wouldn’t have cared much for the dog that he cared for a lot

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