homer and hero

It is Telemachus who is the obvious hero. james joyce refers over and over to his alter-ego Stephen as Stephen-Hero. But there is nowhere for either Stephen or Telemachus to go. If you put Daniel Boorstin's chapter 4 of The Creators(which explains Homer's place in Greek culture along side the complementary place occupied by Hesiod side by side with chapter 68 on Joyce himself. Stephen is Telemachus. They ended directly opposed. Stephen becomes the eternal exile, just as Joyce becomes. Telemachus becomes the king of Ithaca, wanders no more, achieves his identity. Jack achieves his maturity, finds his destiny. How does he does he do this? He has His Mentor (the godlike Hurley) and he has his father, Locke, to become king you must have a dead father. Of course, there is the other Telemachus, Ben, the man who needed no mentor, no teacher. he is the natural heir of Odysseus. Yet he chooses exile. Like Stephen, he deserts the Odysseus of Joyce's creation. Why? From the time we see Ben with Joyce's novel, we know that strange incarnation of Zeus that is Faraday is at work.. if you look at Zeus' parents and compare them to Daniel's, you might catch some similiarities. Then there is someone manipulating the LA flash sideways. There is pushing Ben one way and Jack the other. He has crew, chiefly Desmond,but also Minkowski, the world's most resourceful driver. He drives Desmond to the lotus eater, Charlie. He returns Desmond to Faraday. then Desmond becomes a demi-god, a Hermes with messages, powers, the final blow to Ben and the arbiter of the contest between the dutiful Jack and his possessed spiritual father. Locke made him a man of faith as did Desmond, Sawyer Faraday and Hurley. The final act of jack's life before dying is to kill the body of the person who began his salvation and relight the flame (Jack is much closer to Virgil's Aeneas at this point (see book 8 of Virgil's poem).
The saddest words are might have been. Ben chose prudence over courage. He should have faced MiB as soon as he he killed Jacob. Sad moment n.2: Ben was reluctant to kill Jacob. Ben knew from flight 316 onward, how things would end. Flashsideways was as much about preventing Ben from acting as about preparing Hurley and Jack for their fates. Jin, Sun, Sayid, Jack, many others would have survived. Ben would have surely died a horrible death, revenge from the higher power which I call Zeus.
Michael did what was required of him. The fact that he could not kill himself until his death was necessary to correct Ben's killing of Kreamy. The Zeus of LOST aint the Christian god. In the last episodes, Michael gave Hurley a push when he needed it. It was Zeus' will that Walt take command. Zeus makes the rules, and he tries to put the blame on humans