Essay on Homers Odyssey: Foreshadowing the Homecoming -- Homer Odysse

The Odyssey  Foreshadowing the Homecoming   The majority of the Odyssey is an account of Odysseus adventures trying to spend his homeland of Ithaka. Several of these adventures are false homecomings, the most prominent of which is his bondage on Kalypsos island. This false homecoming is strikingly different from what maven would expect of Odysseus real homecoming, but similar enough for parallels to be draw between the two. Homer uses this false homecoming to foreshadow Odysseus true homecoming. end-to-end the Odyssey, Homer presents the lecturer with certain clues about what Odysseus feels his homecoming should (but not neccessarily will) be like. First of all, Odysseus wants to return key to Ithaka. Homer goes as far as having Odysseus picture Ithaka There is a mountain there that stands tall, leaf-trembling Neritos, and there are islands colonized around it, lying one very close to another. There is Doulichion and Same, woody Zakynthos, but my island lies low an d away, last of all on the water (Bk. 9, ln. 21-25). Kalypso lives on island, which whitethorn indeed resemble Ithaka. In this way, Homer begins to alert the reader that this scene may be a false homecoming. But, simply the feature that Kalypso lives on an island is not enough evidence to draw the conclusion that this may foreshadow Odysseuss true homecoming. Other evidence is needed, and Homer provides it for us. Odysseus expects to return to his family and to the way of life which he is accustomed to. For the most part, Kalypso treats him as he is utilise to being treatedthere is a certain instinct of familiarity here. Returning from ten years of war with Troy and at least several years at sea, Odysseus wants to return to the comfort of home. Her cave has ... ...eople and customs that Odysseus expects to return home to, and Homer is only using Kalypsos pseud family and home to foreshadow this. When Odysseus finally reaches Ithaka, all that Homer has foreshadowed using Kalyp sos island as a false homecoming is realized, and subsequently all of Odysseuss expectations are achieved. Odysseus returns to an island, but it is Ithaka. He is greeted with the inhospitality of the suitors (as Homer foreshadowed), but soon restores range and his own sense of civilization. Odysseus and Penelope (rather than Kalypsos perfect image of a wife) are reunited. Recognized by his son, his wife, and his people, Odysseuss homecoming is completely. No result how desirable the world Kalypso created for Odysseus appeared, it was only a false homecoming used by Homer for its generalities to foreshadow the specifics of Odysseuss true homecoming.