Examine how Ulysses can be seen as an escapist.

I think
that a fairly good case can be made foras an escapist.  Ulysses is shown to be one who wishes to
escape the condition of "life piled on life."  Ulysses' life back in Ithaca is one in
which the daily mundane compels him to escape.  This life of domesticity is a realm from which
Ulysses seeks escape.  There is much in the poem that shows his discontent for the social and
domestic responsibilities that accompany life in Ithaca. For Ulysses, there is nothing binding
Ulysses to his life back home.  He feels that Penelope is fine and that Telemachus is capable to
rule Ithaca without his father.  In the absence of that which binds, Ulysses feels compelled to
escape into the world of exploration and challenging elements that are set out on sea. It is
here in which he can be seen as an escapist.  The idea of life being one in which Ulysses yearns
"to strive, to seek, and to find and not to yield" are conditions into which he wishes
to escape.   It is here in which Ulysses can be seen as an escapist, willing to go anywhere and
do anything so long as it is not in Ithaca.