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 reach his homeland of Ithaka. several(prenominal) of these adventures are false proceedss, the most prominent of which is his imprisonment on Kalypsos island. This false return key is strikingly different from what one would expect of Odysseus real homecoming, exactly similar enough for parallels to be drawn between the two. kor uses this false homecoming to foreshadow Odysseus true homecoming. Throughout the Odyssey, Homer presents the reader with certain clues or so what Odysseus feels his homecoming should (but not neccessarily will) be like. First of all, Odysseus wants to return to Ithaka. Homer goes as far as having Odysseus describe Ithaka There is a mountain there that stands tall, leaf-trembling Neritos, and there are islands settled around it, lying one very close to another. There is Doulichion and Same, wooded Zakynthos, but my island lies low and a expressive style, last of all on the pissing (Bk. 9, ln. 21-25). Kalypso lives on island, which may 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 used to being treatedthere is a certain sense of familiarity here. Returning from disco biscuit 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 fake family and home to foreshadow this. When Odysseus finally reaches Ithaka, all that Homer has foresha dowed using Kalypsos 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 order and his own sense of civilization. Odysseus and Penelope (rather than Kalypsos perfect tense image of a wife) are reunited. Recognized by his son, his wife, and his people, Odysseuss homecoming is completely. No matter 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.