It also may be a good idea to discuss "the Hero's journey". The Odyssey is the most widely used example of the hero's journey. The story of King Aurthur is another one.
All Hero's journeys contain certain elements such as the decent into the underworld. You really only need a paragraph touching on this definition , and it will show your instructor you understand the concepts from a wider and deeper point of view. Look up "the hero's journey" as psychological archetype, and the stages of the hero's journey.
You will need to define the word archetype in your paper. In this case the archetype of the hero. These are the stages a hero must go through before he will be allowed to return home.
Wikipedia will do for this. Look up "classic hero archetype" Using an example from the story show how Odysseus follows these stages of the hero's journey. All classic hero's follow these steps and Odysseus is the grandaddy of them all.
There are many kinds of suffering in The Odyssey. The main one is Odysseus’s mental suffering. The fact is that he spent twenty years away from his wife Penelope and son Telemachus.
That is by far worst, the fact that he and his wife are separated for twenty years; and that his son grows up not knowing him. Also, Homer talks about the physical suffering when Odysseus ran away from Calypso’s island. Says Odysseus to Calypso “God knows I’ve suffered and had my share of sorrows in war and at sea.
I can take more if I have to.” (V, 225-226). Odysseus is a major hero who went to Troy. God likes him because he is not afraid to take risks but, he is still human.
He suffers any human does. His name has to do to suffer “Odium”.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.