Explanation:
The Odyssey tells the story of a heroic but far from perfect protagonist who battles many antagonists, including his own inability to heed the gods’ warnings, on his arduous journey home from war. Along the way the poem explores ideas about fate, retribution, and the forces of civilization versus savagery. While The Odyssey is not told chronologically or from a single perspective, the poem is organized around a single goal: Odysseus’s return to his homeland of Ithaca, where he will defeat the rude suitors camped in his palace and reunite with his loyal wife, Penelope. Odysseus is motivated chiefly by his nostos, or desire for homecoming, a notion in heroic culture that encouraged bravery in war by reminding warriors of the people and institutions they were fighting for back home. Odysseus’s return represents the transition from life as a warrior on the battlefield back to life as a husband, father, and head of a household. Therefore, Odysseus is ultimately motivated by a desire to reclaim these elements of his identity and once again become the person he was before he left for the Trojan War so many years earlier.
The chief conflict in the poem is between Odysseus’s desire to reach home and the forces that keep him from his goal, a conflict that the narrator of the Odyssey spells out in the opening lines. This introductory section, called a proem, appeals to the Muse to inspire the story to follow. Here, the narrator names the subject of the poem—Odysseus—and his objective throughout the poem: “to save his life and bring his comrades home.” The narrator identifies the causes of Odysseus’s struggle to return home, naming both the sun god, Helios, and Odysseus’s fellow sailors themselves as responsible: “The recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all, the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the sun and the sun god blotted out the day of their return.” The narrator next identifies Poseidon as one of Odysseus’s main antagonists, as all the gods took pity on Odysseus except Poseidon, who “raged on, seething against the great Odysseus until he reached his native land.” Finally, the proem tells us that the Odyssey will be the story of Odysseus’s successful journey home: “the exile must return!”
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Remember, a thesis states your position on your topic. A question cannot state anything because it is not a statement. A question is a great lead in to a thesis, but it can't be the thesis.
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The significance of "making people barons and dukes and earls" means that if people will be able to free themselves from their handicaps, they will be rewarded with a brighter future and a<u> greater freedom.</u>
Explanation:
The question above is related to the story entitled "Harrison Bergeron." The story focuses on the "equality" of humans in the year 2081. The equality being mentioned here is literal equality, which means <u>no one should be above than the other even when it comes to intelligence</u>. George was more intelligent than his age that he was given a<em> mental handicap radio in his ear</em> so the government can control him and stay attuned to what he's thinking.
Harrison Bergeron was a <em>"wanted man" </em>who recently escaped from prison. He wanted to overthrow the government because for him <u>people should be free from the straps of handicaps that are being attached to them.</u> For him, people should be free to do what they want and harness their potentials to the best of their ability. This was the freedom he was referring to and showing to people.
