Love, A hero's Conquest There are many essential emotions that form the building blocks of our lives. These emotions help to shape the people that we are. These feelings are emotional necessities to ultimately keep us happy. No piece of literature makes these feelings more evident than the Odyssey by Homer. Throughout the course of this book there is one major emotional theme: love. Often times in life we search for a companion, someone to …showed first 75 words of 994 total…

…showed last 75 words of 994 total…these years. You can see the situation that both are put into. But loves wins in the end and they are reunited happily as Odysseus gains control of Ithaca. The emotion of love is made very apparent in The Odyssey. Not only between man and woman, but also father and son. Both are equally strong and are represented with equal importance. A true hero is able to find love in any situation, just like Odysseus.