Examples Of Obstacles In The Odyssey

In the famous epic, “The Odyssey” by Homer, it is easily understood that it is a metaphor for life. In the epic, the hero, Odysseus, has to face many perils on his way back from the Trojan War to his home to see his son, Telemachus, and his wife, Penelope. For the most part, everyone will have to face perils in their life, including me. For example, we all have dreams for what we want to do when we group up. People typically will have dream college they want to go to, whether it’s an Ivy League or just a community college near home. Odysseus, like all of us, is put to the test against many obstacles on his journey home, just like everyone will face in their life. Specifically, the challenges I will face on my journey of life include getting …show more content…
In the novel, Homer tells us how Odysseus is trapped by Calypso. He states “He [Odysseus] eventually drifts to Ogygia, the home of Calypso, who keeps him on her island for seven years.” So Odysseus is trapped by Calypso and has to decide whether or not he wants to leave and get back to Penelope. For me, school traps me and I have to choose to work hard so that I can leave and go to college. So because of this, getting into college is very similar to getting trapped like Calypso, like it happened to Odysseus. This matters because it shows how “The Odyssey” is like life and how it is a metaphor for …show more content…
In the poem, Homer tells us how the sorceress Circe turns some of Odysseus’s men into pigs. The only one of his men who were not turned to pig, Eurylochus, escapes and tells Odysseus what Circe has done. Odysseus now has a choice, he can save his men and risk death or he can leave and his men will be trapped forever. Choosing which college to go to is much like this. You have a difficult decision that will determine the rest of your life. You have to pick based on many variables, much like Odysseus’s decision was not to just save his men or not. You have to pick your college based on how good they are in the field you want to study, whether or not you have a scholarship to somewhere else, if it is near your dream job, and so many more. Odysseus’s decision to save his men is like this, too. He can save his men, which risks him and his men getting captured which would end their journey, or he can leave them, which might be bad as he does not have as many men for his crew. So Odysseus is faced with this and he eventually chooses to save his men. Eventually, I will have to decide what college I will go to, showing how “The Odyssey” is much like

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