Essay: One of the Best

The use of the term hero has a broad area of uses. Most people think of a hero as someone out of a comic book or someone that saves hundreds of people's lives. My definition of a hero would be someone who completes something that is against their character in a good way or someone that accomplishes something for the good of himself and/or the people around him. This stories of Odysseus are what I would consider a rounded hero. He saves his land from being taken over in the war and then he fights through many hardships on his way home. He does all of this while keeping his men calm and preparing them for the worst but still giving them the courage to fulfill their task at hand. Some of the character's of the epic may not see Odysseus as a hero but as villain form their view but everyone always has atlas two ways of viewing a story. I haven't read the Iliad but have only read clips and reviews of the epic literature. I have thoroughly read and studied the Odessey and time and tim again Odysseus portrays himself of never being afraid of anything and being this aggressive, brave person while inside he questions everything about himself. He also knows that many of his men will die if not all of them and maybe even himself but he still has the drive to return home to his family and his land that he calls his own. Later in the epic he returns home and fulfills many tasks along while the one his own wife gives him to prove that he is himself. All that Odysseus goes through and is still driven to the very end is what I would classify as a hero. 

Odysseus in one of his last tasks