Odysseus however, tells him no one else .
survived other than the people in the cave with him. Thus by not admitting that there .
were other men waiting in the other ship for him Odysseus shows his craftiness to the .
Phaeacians and his wise nature, spreading his fame and building his reputation as a hero. .
Homer now shows the transformation of the Cyclops from an unfriendly creature .
to a cold and uncaring killer through vivid, realistic imagery created by Odysseus. .
Suddenly, his nature changes and "without a word in reply" the Cyclops attacks the men. .
Homer uses a double simile in lines 9.326-330 to provide the gory details of how the .
Cyclops kills and eats the men. In one simile he compares the men and their defenseless .
nature and the ease in which he kills them to pups. Homer evokes the image of small .
helpless animals being slaughtered by a huge beast. In another simile, the Cyclops is .
compared to a mountain lion when devouring his meal of human flesh. .
The images created by these similes emphasize the destructive and ferocious .
nature of the Cyclops. The size and the brutal strength of the Cyclops are shown in ease .
that he kills two grown men in one instance. The lack of civility of the Cyclops is also .
emphasized by having the way he eats his meal compared to that of an animal. We are .
told the gory details of how the men were killed, of how "their brains gushed out" and .
soaked the floor", this graphic, horrifying image has the intended effects on the .
Phaeacians, drawing out emotions of horror and disgust towards Polyphemus. .
Homer then continues with special emphasis on the details of the actions of the .
Cyclops and the killing of the men: "ripping them from limb to limb", (9.328). The .
senses involuntary are being used in the telling of the story as one tries to .
imagine the scene, such as the sight of soaked blood, brains splattered on the floor and .
the sound of human flesh ripping.
This tale tells of Polyphemus, a Cyclops who dwelt in a cave near the ocean. ... The came upon Polyphemus's cave and ventured to ask for provisions in his house. ... But Polyphemus paid no attention and ate one of Odysseus's men. ... One day Odysseus offered Polyphemus some wine and got the Cyclops absolutely drunk that he passed out. ... Polyphemus became visciously jelous and killed Acis. ...
Examples in this essay of monsters and their hero counterparts will be Medusa and Perseus, the Minotaur and Theseus, and Polyphemus and Odysseus. ... Odysseus shows courage by keeping his cool when Polyphemus had, "greedily devoured several of his men," (pg.457), and was, "belching out wine and bits of human flesh." ... When Polyphemus was injured he cried out to his friends that Noman had tricked him, his friends left him think that "no man" had tricked him. ... The third way that Polyphemus was outwitted by Odysseus was when, "Odysseus devises a way to escape the cave by tying his companio...
The Blinding of Polyphemus. Polyphemus, a Cyclops, the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and of the nymph ThoÖsa. ... Poseidon punished Odysseus for blinding Polyphemus by causing him many troubles in his subsequent wanderings by sea. In another legend, Polyphemus was depicted as a huge, one-eyed shepherd, unhappily in love with the sea nymph Galatea. ... The Greek hero Odysseus was trapped with his men in the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus, a son of Poseidon, god of the sea. ...
The man that seemed like he was the leader of the reckless crew told me that his name is "nobody," and I thought that was rather odd, but I guess humans will be humans. ... How could these men be so reckless as to enter someone else's home, steal their goods, insult their hospitality, and deprive them of their vision; nothing in that seemed acceptable. ...
The Reckless Decade By: H.W. Brands Few books portray the "reckless decade" of the 1890s as vividly or as detailed as HW Brand's The Reckless Decade. Filled with stifling detail, intense political drama, and great social/economic analysis, The Reckless Decade by H.W. ... The Reckless Decade concentrates on the many social, economical, political, and technological developments and struggles that defined the essence of America in the 1890s. ... What I found most interesting while reading The Reckless Decade was the way Brands described the political battles between Bryan and McKinley lead...
Later in book nine when he and his men are trapped in the cave with Polyphemus, Odysseus knows that he cannot kill the cyclops because Polyphemus is the only one strong enough to move the boulder from in front of the door so instead he devises a plan and sets it into motion. ... Then Odysseus gives Polyphemus wine to make him fall asleep faster and daze his senses. ... Odysseus tricks Polyphemus into thinking that his name is Nobody so that when he and his men attack and Polyphemus's brothers come to help him, he yells ˜help Nobody is killing me' therefore his brothers would ...
He thinks of a way to destroy the Cyclops Polyphemus he encounters. He decides to ram a spear into Polyphemus's eye. When Polyphemus asks for Odysseus's name, he tells him that his name is Nohbdy. ... Polyphemus pulls the bloody spear from his wounded eye. ...
For example, Odysseus's army went into the cave of Polyphemus, more known as the Cyclops, and took some cheese without him knowing. ... Today, it would seem that it was Odysseus's fault in the first place because he basically sneaked in to Polyphemus's cave, but in ancient times, the feeling would be that Polyphemus deserved what he got. ... Odysseus lied about his ship, tricked Polyphemus into drinking wine to drunken him, and lied about his name. ...
