The character trait Odysseus relies on most when overcoming the challenges described in the story is his intelligence. He thinks things through using his wits and he gets out of sticky situations by doing so. For example, Odysseus gets the cyclops drunk then proceeds to tell the monster that his name is Noman. Once the cyclops falls asleep Odysseus and his men stab the Polyphemus, the cyclops, in the eye with a charred stake to blind him. This is where Odysseus had planned ahead and outsmarted the creature:
And Polyphemus shouted out to them:
‘Noman is killing me by some kind of trick!’
They sent their words winging back to him:
‘If no man is hurting you, then your sickness
Comes from Zeus and can’t be helped.
You should pray to your father,
And Polyphemus shouted out to them:
‘Noman is killing me by some kind of trick!’
They sent their words winging back to him:
‘If no man is hurting you, then your sickness
Comes from Zeus and can’t be helped.
You should pray to your father,