THE ODYSSEY

SITUATIONAL ARCHETYPES

• Hero's task: To return home and get rid of the suitors
• Hero's quest: returning to Ithaca after going to the underworld and different countries
• Battle between good and evil: Athena, Odysseus, and two others vs. the suitors

CHARACTER ARCHETYPES

• Hero: Odysseus
• Mentor: Athena
• Creatures of nightmare: The Suitors/Sirens/cyclopses
• Evil figure with a good heart: Circe (which-goddess who at first turns some of Odysseus's crew into pigs, but later turns them back and allows them to stay for a while)
• turns them back and allows them to stay for a while)

SYMBOLIC ARCHETYPES

• Athena, Zeus, Poseidon, Calypso, and cyclopses all represent that this is a Greek Myth
• "The Child of the Morning, Rosy-fingered Dawn..." is said throughout the book many times