Guilt In Odysseyus And Krakauer

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In this essay, I will tell about how both Odysseyus and Krakauer experience guilt. The 2 great men, Krakauer and Odysseyus, in their own respective tales’ experience guilt in many forms but have similarities and differences in kind. One type of guilt that they both experience is guilt of withholding information. In Odysseyus’ case he did not tell his men of Scylla or Charybdis, he also didn’t say of what was in the waterskin from Aeolus. Krakauer withheld information of clients dead, didn’t say anything to rob hall about his condition, and didn’t tell weathers the truth about his nose or the frost bite. They had different situations but they both feel bad for keeping information. In their stories the 2 people experience survivors guilt as