Making a Hero

A hero and lordly moves are the about important elements of Ancient mythology, and the Odyssey by Homer as an example of such epics. Joseph Campbell identifies three important stages of the heros journey found in monomyths Separation, Initiation and Return. In the Odyssey, the main hero goes through these stages in order to prove and test his courage and heroism. Thesis through somatogenic journeys and trials, his in-personity changes for the better while initiation tests his psychical and mental strength, dissolution and return reflect his personal qualities and new values.In product line to traditional model proposed by Joseph Campbell, the Odyssey follows a parallel construction readers distinguish about his return and withdrawal simultaneously. The first stage, insularism, begins twenty years anterior to the events depicted in the Odyssey. Readers know about Odysseys departure and causes of this separation through memories of Odyssey and other characters. The mai n difference is that Homer ranks about separation through memories and isolated stories.Only in Book XVI, Homer describes the separation it is such a long time ago that I / female genitalia hardly say. Twenty years are come and gone since he left my / home, and went elsewhither (Homer, Book XVI). This quote is very important because it tells readers about the ult and helps Penelope to recollect events. Penelope is sure that Ulysses is laid forward her (Homer). The most important is that the story about separation coincides with return of the hero and his clean-living development. The rest of the story (the return) describes his new qualities and values developed during initiation from the psychological point of view.The present moment stage, initiation, consists of several trials and battles which show courage and enormous physical strength of Odyssey. The main trials include the welcome with the Cicones, several years fatigued in Calypsos cave the battle with the Cyclops an d the encounter with the Sirens show that only. The first encounters show his physical strength while the second ones test his psychological qualities. Odysseus then you are, o great contender, of whom the glittering divinity with the golden wand / spoke to me ever, and foretold /the black swift ship would await you from Troy (Homer, Book X).This remark tells readers that his journey is not over and he needs great courage and bravery to overcome all embarrassing situations and eternal evil. It is possible to make certain distinctions between two stages of personal development (separation and return) for instance, fresh strong feeling in Odyssey hero is a different thing from the mass strong feeling in the throng or that some types and manifestations of feeling are gross self-indulgence and are not at all the thing they appear to be or that an appearance of strong feeling may be only a mask hiding some weakness or other. Physical sufferings and trials hurl changed his personalit y and world views.At the stage of return, Homer does not tell about low morals of Odyssey and his habits, but describes him as a corporeal hero who returns home. He inherits his honesty. In his bed for women he shows that he has no(prenominal) of snobbery. At the end, the main hero is depicted as a keeper of law and traditions of the society. Also, Homer shows that it is dangerous thing to forget about humankind dignity and human code of ethics. The royal pair mingled in love again and afterward lay revelling in stories. / Odysseus told of what hard blows he had dealt to others and of what blows he had taken-all that story (Homer, Book XXIII). This remark shows that after Initiation, Odyssey is a loving married man and father, fair ruler and son. At this stage, Odyssey combines the moral and social qualities of an ideal hero.In sum, the remarkable feature of the Odyssey is a cyclical structure of the Heros journey based on physical and psychological development of the main cha racter. Using a cyclical structure, Homer compares and contrasts the qualities of two different characters Odyssey before and after the initiation stage. The inferences in the paper are important because they help to identify and analyze the main elements of the text, and then synthesize and summarize the main findings of the analysis.Works Cited PageHomer. The Odyssey. N.d. http//www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/dyssy10.txt