How is odysseus resourceful

In another example, Odysseus managed to sail past the Sirens. The Sirens were beautiful nymphs whose singing was so beguiling that they could tempt sailors to crash on the rocks for love of them.

In this way he was able to hear the Sirens while his men sailed safely past them. Penelope herself was a fit match for her clever husband. During the many years it took him to return home, many suiters came to press her to remarry, because surely Odysseus was dead.

In this way she fended off the pressure to remarry and was waiting faithfully for Odysseus when he came home. Odysseus deserved such a wife because at the beginning of his journey a goddess had told him it would be very hard and offered him herself instead of Penelope.

But Odysseus knew that the love of a true, mortal wife is worth more than the whim of a goddess and he chose the journey with all its hardship. Heroic Virtue 3: Resourcefulness Sometimes a battle is best won not by brute strength or by any kind of force at all. An obstacle is an obstacle and you always have the choice about whether to push through it or to find a way around it. A clever hero looks for many ways to solve a problem and selects the one that leaves him fit to fight another day.

Have you tried force when cleverness might win you the battle? Notwithstanding these flaws, Homer is still able to represent Odysseus in such a way that the reader clearly identifies with his weakness and innate humanity; regardless of the super-human acts of heroism that he engages and the clever acts of strategy or genius that he employs. While he is brave, clever, and fully able to exhibit physical and mental strength, he nonetheless must utilize each of these as a function of extracting himself from the hardships he so often places himself in.

Whereas Odysseus is a flawed hero that is overly curious, prideful, unfaithful to his wife, he has tragic faults and flaws. Ultimately, the indomitable human spirit is represented in the character of Odysseus; not only as a model of what human folly and virtue represent, but as a more dynamic representation of the fact that both of these elements can exist simultaneously in a single individual. Disclaimer: This work has been donated by a student. Odysseus is renowned both for his strength and his intelligence, so he shows his cleverness by suggesting that the Greeks trick the Trojans by offering them a wooden horse that is secretly filled with Greek soldiers.

Odysseus is considered an epic hero for his role as King of Ithaca, his participation in the war, and his journey home. A hero has some type of superhuman ability, such as intelligence, physical strength, or bravery: Odysseus was known for his ability to think himself out of tough situations. He also shows strength during his year voyage home, during which he outwits the Sirens and escapes Scylla and Charybdis.

Odysseus is an unappreciative, self-centered, lazy, and selfish man that does not deserve the title as hero.