Part one of term paper
Gentle waves lap against the Ithacian shore line as Odysseus has finally reached his native homeland. Rumors of the great turmoil that has rocked Odysseus’ home land and house has reached him abroad. After hearing the news, he decides to don a beggar’s disguise and so forth begins the great test. When the disguised Odysseus in Hom ...

Part two of term paper
... lie that is used as the building block for many other lies to be told. Odysseus is being deceitful by disguising himself as a beggar for specific reasons. His reasons are to find out what has been going on in Ithaca in his twenty years’ absence. He wants to find out his wife’s loyalty to him as the husband and the authority figure, and her love to her husband. If she did not still love him, he might think twice about revealing his identity to his wife and to the island of Ithaca. He wa ...