Devolpment of Desire. Comparision between Odyssey, Beowulf, Knight in the Cart

        The development of the male warrior, throughout literature, has a direct relationship with the development of western civilization. The attributes a warrior holds, fall respectively with the attributes that each society held as valuable. These characteristics, started by societies ideals, become the warrior's only reasons for continuing their heroics. The ideals however do change with each warrior. At the beginning we have a warrior with one mission, which later the warriors become more challenged and …

…that of honor. Overall, the development of characters became a way of projecting the proper ideals on the society to uphold. This became the link between the warriors and the civilizations they represented. Works Cited Boyle, Doebler, Lopez-Lazaro and Wright. Hum 301. Tempe AZ. Alternative copy shop, 1996 Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Vintage Classics, 1990.          Unknown. Beowulf. Trans. Michael Alexander. New York: Penguin Books, 1973. Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Vintage Classics, 1990.