Rhetorical Analysis Of The Odyssey - 1328 Words

Warfare. Rejection. Trickery. Peace. One word stands out and doesn’t belong in Homer’s story The Odyssey; peace. Odysseus went through 20 years of being kept from his wife and son. He fought men and monsters, was rejected by wooers in his own city and people tried to tricking him during his journey back home. He didn’t find peace on his journey. He was always lamenting over missing his home and family. When he finally did make it home he hid his true identity as a beggar while he planned his revenge against the wooers who stole from him and took over his home. In the end he revealed himself and there was a battle where the wooers were killed. I think Odysseus was justified in his actions against the men and women he killed. Odysseus’ actions were appropriate based on the loyalty he showed his family, the terrible behavior of the wooers towards Odysseus and the fact that he showed mercy to some innocent people. One of the main themes in The Odyssey is loyalty and how Odysseus’ loyalty justified his actions towards the wooers. Odysseus showed loyalty to his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus, and his home of Ithaca from the beginning of the story until the end. He was willing to kill and/or die to protect them if he had to. In one of his visits from Athene she told him what the wooers planned for Telemachus when he returned. â€Å"Truly the young men with their black ship they lie in wait, and are eager to slay him ere he come to his own country†Show MoreRelatedOdyssey Cause and Effect801 Words   |  4 PagesOdysseus’s Ego Rhetorical Situation Writer- I am a college student and a high school senior who has studied the odyssey many times. This example stood out to me when I thought of cause and effect topics. Audience- Anyone who has a general knowledge of the story of the The Odyssey and will understand the essay topic and relate, or is interested in cause and effect analysis. Topic- I will be writing about how Odysseus’s actions in The Odyssey caused many unfortunate eventsRead MoreThe Speech To The Virginia Convention Rhetorical Analysis883 Words   |  4 PagesRhetorical Analysis of Henry Outline Introduction Attention getter- Thesis- The rhetorical devices in the Speech to the Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry is very effective. Appeals Emotional Context and quote- This quote appears during Henry responds to the opposing argument, giving reasons to refute it. â€Å"There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir,Read MoreEssay about Grief from a Cross-Cultural Perspective1573 Words   |  7 Pagesexperienced by the protagonist; the second, although still set in the stream of consciousness, focuses on the narrator’s grief rather than his reflection of self; the third concludes with the protagonist reentering reality, or the physical world. From the analysis of these sections, conclusions will be drawn through comparison to the Kà ¼bler-Ross model. In order to compare the human reactions to the events occurred within the story, the Islamic funeral rites will need to be observed. However, it is importantRead MoreIs Google Making Us Stupid?940 Words   |  4 PagesElizabeth Fitzgerald Professor Elizabeth Rogers English 302 September 13, 2015 Rhetorical Analysis Essay: â€Å"Is Google Making Us Stupid?† Nicholas Carr’s article on The Atlantic asks us to question what effect the Internet has on our brains. At the time this article was written, the Internet was becoming more and more apart of our daily routine as many find themselves using it for work purposes or simply for leisure. Carr, as a seemingly literary type himself, says, â€Å"Computers are changing the normalRead MoreRhetorical Analysis Of Is Google Making Us Stupid1002 Words   |  5 Pages Major Paper II:Rhetorical Analysis In the article, â€Å"Is Google Making Us Stupid†, the main argument the author, Nicholas Carr is trying to make is to explain how the Internet becomes our only source of information. Carr is also trying to warn oncoming generations in how the Internet has affected our ability to read long pieces or to be able to retain information for a long period of time. Carr provides personal experience, imagery, and a professional analysis that is backed by research to hookRead MoreThe Literary Analysis Of The Herodotus Of Halicarnassus1882 Words   |  8 Pagesit with myth and delivering it in the style of poetry. Instead, Herodotus produced systematic accounts of history following a chronological order, assembled as many facts and forms of evidence as possible, and used them with a critical spirit of analysis. These documents describe the history of the Persian wars from the fall of the Lydian kingdom in western Anatolia to the beginning of the Archidamian War. At its heart is the conflict between Greeks and non-Greeks. The prolonged nature of the PersianRead MoreStudy Guide Literary Terms7657 Words   |  31 Pages AP Literary and Rhetorical Terms 1. 2. alliteration- Used for poetic effect, a repetition of the initial sounds of several words in a group. The following line from Robert Frosts poem Acquainted with the Night provides us with an example of alliteration,: I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. The repetition of the s sound creates a sense of quiet, reinforcing the meaning of the line 3. allegory – Where every aspect of a story is representative, usually symbolicRead MoreStanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1854 Words   |  8 Pagesstrike called in by a paranoid general. The â€Å"Doomsday Machine† is a fictional deterrent that will irradiate the entire world and cause all human and animal life to go extinct for one hundred years if a nuclear bomb is detonated (Kagan 123). This analysis will focus on two persuasive speeches that are given by the title character, Dr. Strangelove—an enigmatic German scientist with an alien hand—and General Turgidson—a strong anti-Communist, American general with a strong distrust of the Soviet ambassadorRead MoreThe Stylistic Analysis of Anthony in Blue Alsatia2217 Words   |  9 Pages at some glimpse of Paradise from the carriage windows: That is where I really wanted to go — that is where I would like to get out!†. The author uses also repetitions, for example, word â€Å"Heavens† repeated several times or â€Å"That is where†¦Ã¢â‚¬ . Rhetorical questions are also used to make the readers believe to Anthony, for example: â€Å"Never?† Inner monologue here opens the inner world to the readers. Exclamatory sentences assist to a rhythmic effect. The sounds of the laugh such as: â€Å"Ha-ha-ah! Ha-ha-haRead MoreHow Images View International Politics2025 Words   |  9 Pagesregional security in the Middle East (Art Jervis, 2012,pgs.239-259). Either way, the realist’s assumption of security as a major factor predominates international politics. To counter the Israel and American accusations of Iran’s possible nuclear odyssey, Iran countervailed with the nuclear threat from American hegemony and the Zionist threat with a possibility of mistrust si ring future conflicts (â€Å"H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President of the Islamic Republic of Iran,† 2012). On