Adventuring In The Odyssey

Does the story of a warrior always end with them having a happy ending and giving up on adventuring? For Odysseus’s story he is the man that sailed a ship across an ocean after a war for a city called Troy he has many adventures on his way back home. However, when he reaches home he starts to feel bored and unsatisfied of his relaxed lifestyle and decides that he wants to set back onto sea. Odysseus wants to leave a safe life behind him and use the remainder of his years back onto sea for all the adventures that will come even if it goes terribly wrong. Odysseus is an old man with a passion for adventuring that never went away and I say he was addicted to it because he could not be relaxed with a non-adventurous life, loves to face the challenges …show more content…
He cannot get used to this normal and safe lifestyle, so he passes his throne to his son Telemachus and knowingly leaves his wife to go back to adventuring. This quote shows his feelings of staying in one solid place, “How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!” (Tennyson, Lines 22-23). This quote shows that he feels like he is rusting instead shining while he is staying stationary, so he feels that he is feeling weaker or lesser than himself instead of feeling like a complete person. Furthermore, it shows that he is bored while he is at his own island that he rules with his loving family that many can say is a comfortable situation. Overall it can be seen that Odysseus cannot feel any type of comfort while he is home with his family and is plainly not happy as he was when he was out on the open …show more content…
In the passage, he references his age and his crews age to show the readers that they are indeed old but are still their younger adventurous self’s emotionally. “We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” (Tennyson, lines 66-70). The quote demonstrates that he and his crew all agree that their passion for adventure will lead them to sailing the sea for the thrill they feel from their adventures even if they may not be as physically fit like they once were. The entire group know they’re not physically fit as they once were and probably know they might lose their lives on another journey, but it seems that they all agree with what their captain say and believes in. Odysseus is showing that he and his crew all have the same feelings towards striving for a new adventure, even though they are all way past their prime, their feelings as adventurers have not

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