Odysseus Kill The Suitors Analysis

Odysseus came home after twenty years, only to find that his house is over run by suitors. Thankfully, the goddess Athena helps Odysseus reclaim his home by coming up with a plan to kill the suitors, which mostly involves Odysseus becoming enraged enough to defeat the foul suitors. The motives behind Odysseus's will to kill the suitors is understandable. To start off, the suitors help themselves to possessions from Odysseus's home whenever the need seemed to arise. Plus, they tried their hardest to woo the beautiful Penelope, Odysseus's wife. As if that wasn't motive enough, the suitors also try to plan an assassination of Odysseus's son, Telemachus, when he had done nothing wrong. Needless to say, Odysseus's motive to remove the suitors was reasonable.

Not only was Odysseus honest about his motives, but his strategies were clever. This ingenious man did not rush into the fray as soon as he reached home, but instead was patient and endured the insult hurled at him by these rude suitors. In …show more content…
The defeat of the one hundred and eight suitors was due to Athena and Odysseus's patients. Like it was said earlier, instead of Odysseus killing all the suitors when he saw them, he waited to gain some men, including his son to fight with him. However, the manner in which Odysseus goes about to defeat the suitors is not justice, it is murder. Instead if finding a way to reason with the suitors , Odysseus waits for a bit, and then goes right in for the kill. He has no mercy on them, even though they beg for it. Ulysses looked sternly at him and answered, "If you were their sacrificing priest, you must have prayed many a time that it might be long before I got home again, and that you might marry my wife and have children by her. Therefore you shall die." Understandably, having your wife almost taken away would driving any man to rage, but Odysseus could have shown mercy all the