Odyssey Blog Post

In the Odyssey revenge is shown through different perspectives of the peculiar characters. It presents the perspective of those who seek revenge and those of the consequences of their revenge. When Athena had talked to Telemachus who was in search of his long-lost father, she had mentioned the suitors plans to assassinate him to receive more benefit. She was already in relentless determination to merely provide aggressive actions to their personal consequence of what they were already setting up. “The suitors’ ringleaders have set up an ambush In the strait between Ithaca and rocky Samos. They mean to kill you before you make it home. I don't think they will. Those mooching suitors will be in their graves before they can get at you”(line 30-34). Athena revenge was based wrongdoing to others that was not necessarily done to injure her. She believes in correcting the wrongs of people who express malicious intentions. Telemachus equally receives a personal glimpse of those who went through with their own revenge and what effect it inevitably has on them. Theoclymenus killing one of his own whom he considered a brother currently is confronted with the fear of the revenge the group has for him. "I, too, have left my country, because I killed a man, one of my own clan. He has many brothers and kinsmen left In bluegrass Argos, powerful men, and I am on the run to escape a black fate at their hands. It seems I am doomed to be a wanderer”(line 29-35). Theoclymenus merely proves that although causing harm to someone else that may at the time have been a good idea and resolve his own problems had inadvertently created more issues for himself. Allowing him from being surrounded by many people who had cherished him to isolation. Inevitably leaving him to be alone and fend for himself until he is protected from the undesirable consequence he will receive overwhelmingly.

On the other hand, when Odysseus has ultimately returned to avenge the suitors who have caused nothing but trouble to his wife and son. The suitors had forcibly taken over his personal home and aggressively courted his wife while Odysseus was trapped on the desolate island still alive. His personal revenge was solely of all the emotional pain and torment that these suitors have inadvertently caused for the battered women that were reluctantly forced to sleep with them.“You dogs! You thought I would never come home from Troy. So you wasted my house,
Force the women to sleep with you, And while I was still alive you courted my wife
Without any fear of the gods in high heaven Or of any retribution from the world of men.
Now the net has been drawn tight around you.” (line38-44). Telemachus revenge has been scarcely for the personal arrogance of the suitors and for the armed defense of his outraged father. “The true son of godlike Odysseus slung on His sharp sword, seized his spear, and gleaming in bronze took his place by his father's side”(line 461-464). Odysseus revenge was admittedly, to begin desperately with the gruesome killing of Antinous for he was merely the alleged ringleader behind all the malicious intentions. “I'll see if I can hit a mark that no man has ever hit. Apollo grant me glory”(line 5-7). Once the suitors had seen the power and strength of Odysseus they knew they to would be avenged for what they had contributed. They sustained an act of cowardliness even though they were not troubled before when they were performing heinous actions.“Now he's been killed, and he deserved it. But spare your people. We will pay you back for all we have eaten and drunk in your house” (line 56-58). Therefore, the suitors know their time had come, and karma was about to take over even though they begged and pleaded for mercy. Ultimately, it causes the deaths of all suitors and Odysseus seeking the justice they had deserved after an extended period of time.