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incogcheetah · 5 months

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ANOTHER thought I am quickly becoming obsessed with is the fact that as Odysseus is being bombarded by the souls of the dead, the ones that come to haunt him are specifically the people he's GOTTEN killed, not that he's killed himself. For example we hear him worrying that he'll be haunted by the infant that HE killed, but almost all the souls that come to haunt him are the ones that he GOT killed. His friends, everyone that he was responsible for, hell even his mother died waiting for him to come home.

Odysseus thought the people he killed would make him a bad person. But getting his loved ones killed, turns out, makes you a lot more guilty and regretful than doing what it takes to survive. Like Zeus said, "The blood on your hands is something you won't lose. All you can choose is whose." There's more than one way to have blood on your hands. It's just about choosing the way that you can live with.

#epic the musical #epic the underworld saga #the underworld #you could go deeper into what that says about the morality of the world Odysseus inhabits #because the underworld is basically a giant stop sign smacking him in the face #saying all hes ever thought was right #was wrong #and then we realize that this is just an aspectbof his self actualization journey #and that weve come full circle into Odysseus's lesson of #marytrdom is bad kids #i just thought it was another cool little tidbit mr jalapeno added in there #ive been listening to the same three songs for about 48 hours now #still finding tiny tidbits that bring me several levels deeper into my brainrot

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