Heroes save the day; heroes save your lives; heroes put your lives before theirs. They don’t kill their men and cheat on their wives. Is Batman a hero? Did he cheat on his wife? Is Superman a hero? Did he kill his friends? It’s those bad qualities that Batman and Superman didn’t poses that made them heroes unlike Odysseus’ selfish qualities. He wasn’t a hero, though he did heroic things; he wasn’t a hero because of all the stupid things that he did. Just like cheating on his wife. Would a hero really do that?

Cheating seems to be an occurring problem with Odysseus in The Odyssey. When Odysseus goes to see Circe to get his crew members to be changed back into human form he runs into a problem. When he climbs up to see her she says “the only way I’ll turn your soldiers back to men, is if you take me to bed.” I’m sure that if Odysseus tried, he might have been able to persuade her to just turn them back, which is what a hero would’ve done. What made this so wrong is he didn’t even try, he just got up and did it. The later in the movie Odysseus and his men get caught in a horrible storm and he looses all of his men. When Odysseus finally reaches land he comes to Calypso’s island; which happens to be an island of all women. When he first arrives calypso is there to greet him but after he asks her for a ship she says, “No one comes or goes from our island. You are home now.” After all that, Odysseus probably thought that it was true so he just let himself sleep with Calypso. A hero wouldn’t have done that, he would of never gave hope; built his own ship; and get off the island. Then not only did he cheat he did something worse than what a hero would do; he killed his whole entire crew.

When Odysseus finds the cave of the Cyclopes with his men, instead of just going in and getting food or what not, he wants to see it so they wait there until he comes. That was a stupid idea; when the Cyclops finally gets to his cave he says “our father is the mighty god Poseidon.” This should have been a warning that he is not going to help him since Poseidon is mad at Odysseus. Instead they stay and don’t try to escape; leaving the Cyclops to eat his men for food. Later in the movie after they get away from the Cyclops; they come to a cave full of monsters, and at the end of a cave there was a waterfall and instead of Odysseus being brave and telling his crew to go back, they keep going and all of his men fall and die. This is not heroic at all because heroes are brave; unlike Odysseus was.