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False Homecomings in the Odyssey
Title: False Homecomings in the Odyssey
Category: Literature / Mythology
Details: Words: 881 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
False Homecomings in the Odyssey
The majority of the Odyssey is an account of Odysseus' adventures (or, rather, misadventures) trying to reach his homeland of Ithaka. Several of these adventures are false homecomings, the most prominent of which is his imprisonment on Kalypso's island. This false homecoming is strikingly different from what one would expect of Odysseus' real homecoming, but similar enough for parallels to be drawn between the two. Homer uses this false homecoming to foreshadow Odysseus' true homecoming.
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…showed last 75 words of 881 total…the inhospitality of the suitors (as Homer foreshadowed), but soon restores order and his own sense of civilization. Odysseus and Penelope (rather than Kalypso's perfect image of a wife) are reunited. Recognized by his son, his wife, and his people, Odysseus's homecoming is completely. No matter how desirable the world Kalypso created for Odysseus appeared, it was only a false homecoming used by Homer for it's generalities to foreshadow the specifics of Odysseus's true homecoming.
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