The Development Of Desire

Part I of Essay
The development of the male warrior, throughout literature, has a direct relationship with the development of western civilization. The attributes a warrior holds, fall respectively with the attributes that each society held as valuable. These characteristics, started by s ....

Part II of Essay
.... true as one bench mate to the next, “It never fails. He is welcome everywhere: hail to the captain when he goes ashore!” (Homer 166). The irony falls as Odysseus only desires his homeland. ”Begin when all the rest who left behind them headlong death in battle or at sea had long ago returned, while he[ Odysseus] alone still hungered for home and wife” (Homer 1). Odysseus has many opportunities to end his journeys and start a new life. For instance, if he desired, Odysseus was able to stay with Kalypso who wanted him forever, “Her ladyship Kal ....