Points Of View In Homer's The Odyssey

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Points of view in The Odyssey change throughout the epic. This affects the reader’s experience and understanding. The main focus, however, is on Odysseus and people who impact his life, such as his son Telemachus, his wife Penelope, and many god such as Circe and Athena. These characters exert the plot of the text, which makes the epic enjoyable to readers. Odysseus’s point of view upholds most of the text. His first person narration twists the plot of the text to his thoughts and beliefs, and lets the reader inside his mind. One example of this is in Book 10 when in the epic it says that Odysseus drew his sharpened sword and Circe became vulnerable and fell mad in love with the thought of him (“We two shall mingle and make love upon our