SHort Comparison of Odysseus for The Odyssey and Portia from The Merchant of Venice

Throughout the history of literature authors have written about damsels in distress, forbidden love, war, the list goes on forever, but in each there is always a hero. The hero might not be the most written about person or the person who does the most, but they are the most memorable. Portia from the Merchant of Venice and Odysseus from The Odyssey are just two of the many heroes ever written about. Finding the two …

…between Portia and Odysseus. The most obvious, Odysseus is male and Portia is female. Along with this is that they lived in different places and in different times. The list of differences could go on and on. As seen there are many similarities and even more differences between Portia and Odysseus, two heroes in two different stories. Heroes in any two stories can have things the same about each other as well as things different.