The Odyssey has several bits of excessive violence. However, Whether or not violence is acceptable and offensive is completely dependent upon the circumstance. We've learned that while reading The Odyssey as well as in The Epic of Gilgamesh. We will first begin with analyzing The Odyssey.
Our first act of violence begins when Circe changes Odysseus naive men into a swine and Polyphemus saw through Odysseus’s lie and ate his men alive. Out of all the ways to kill, He decided to eat someone, Alive, That must have been painful! The main cause of deaths throughout both books were the consequences of someone being betrayed and deceived.
When the suitors and the women who served them are killed, that's a rather different violence resulting from betrayal, then the violence that Odysseus encounters on his journey home. We also remember the deaths of the previous suitors from prior books. It has been established and predicted by Athena and Teiresias. Within the book, the killings aren't challenged and are allowed as Odysseus return's home after 20 long years. Why must the suitors die? Although, we knew from book one that Odysseus would punish those who deceive him. …show more content…
After the death of the servants, Odysseus old nurse, and dependable servant, finds him “spattered and caked with blood like a mountain lion/ when he has gorged upon his kill” (422). The nurse's reply to this gruesome display is to start to lift her head and yell in celebration, an act that is quickly halted by Odysseus, “To glory over slain men is no piety.” Later, Odysseus orders Telemachus and his dependable herdsmen as well as the treacherous servant women to clear the bodies, wash down the hall, and scrape the floors so he can purify the halls with sulfur. Odysseus’s directions during are wise, he's ended the massacre which that the ancient gods commanded and with that order has been restored to the
Our first act of violence begins when Circe changes Odysseus naive men into a swine and Polyphemus saw through Odysseus’s lie and ate his men alive. Out of all the ways to kill, He decided to eat someone, Alive, That must have been painful! The main cause of deaths throughout both books were the consequences of someone being betrayed and deceived.
When the suitors and the women who served them are killed, that's a rather different violence resulting from betrayal, then the violence that Odysseus encounters on his journey home. We also remember the deaths of the previous suitors from prior books. It has been established and predicted by Athena and Teiresias. Within the book, the killings aren't challenged and are allowed as Odysseus return's home after 20 long years. Why must the suitors die? Although, we knew from book one that Odysseus would punish those who deceive him. …show more content…
After the death of the servants, Odysseus old nurse, and dependable servant, finds him “spattered and caked with blood like a mountain lion/ when he has gorged upon his kill” (422). The nurse's reply to this gruesome display is to start to lift her head and yell in celebration, an act that is quickly halted by Odysseus, “To glory over slain men is no piety.” Later, Odysseus orders Telemachus and his dependable herdsmen as well as the treacherous servant women to clear the bodies, wash down the hall, and scrape the floors so he can purify the halls with sulfur. Odysseus’s directions during are wise, he's ended the massacre which that the ancient gods commanded and with that order has been restored to the