are stories of heroes and their great deeds, but what is behind that hero that invokes him to go from zero to hero. What is behind that hero is the authors writing, when the author talks about the character he gives various characteristics about the character, and as the story develops the character begins to change and when his story ends he gains great knowledge. One hero foresay is Odysseus in Homers’ The Odyssey; this hero starts out arrogant as can be but as the adventure progresses so does
In Keats’ ‘Lamia’, the character of Lamia is presented as a tragic villain and a tragic hero in the preliminary stanzas. I will be exploring the different ways her character represents this trope and also defies it. Lamia is shown to be villainous as she is motivated by her own cause and desires; she wishes to take her woman form again to be reunited with her lover. However, to reach what she wishes she turns the nymph over to Hermes in a deal that he will make her a human again. The nymph appears
The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey. In this article there are small and large comparisons to how these two stories are similar and I will be providing examples to show why I agree with Gerald K. Gresseth. In this article it is said that “The Epic of Gilgamesh is the Odyssey of the Babylonians” (1). Later in this article, they then compare the walking test that Gilgamesh to Odysseus and his crew sailing for nine days, and “this motif reflects a stage where the hero won immortality, not by special