“Luke, I am your father.” In a modern version of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” one cat look at the film of something that sets the stage for a hero’s journey. From Calypso to Polyphemus, lotus eaters to sun god’s island, things can get extremely chaotic. A movie as recent in our minds can be recognizable in older stories. At Odysseus’s home, Ithaca, he and Penelope had just given birth to a child named Telemachus. However, shortly after his birth, he is summoned to fight in the Trojan War, but he denies being summoned. His attempt at denying being summoned: saying he was crazy. How he was going to prove it: run over his newborn child. He still went to war because he swerved out the way of his child, thus proving him not crazy, but Athena has got
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After winning his fight, he spent 20 years for what should have been 2 weeks, according to google maps. The reason why it took 20 years? Well, he came across different obstacles such as being trapped on Calypso’s island for 7 years (which, by the way he wasn’t entirely unwilling to stay.) Another stop was at a cyclops cave, whose name was Polyphemus. This time, Odysseus and his crew spent the weekend, faking Odysseus’ name to be “nobody,” waiting to drunken Polyphemus, then stab his eye out, taking some sheep with. Because that’s what you do with people you haven’t met before. Then again, Polyphemus could care less about Odysseus and his crew, like when they first met, Polyphemus said, “Strangers, who are you? And where from? … We Cyclopes care not a whistle about your thundering Zeus...” When Odysseus and his crew goes to leave, Odysseus has to get a few words in, with those words being that he was not “Nobody,” but instead Odysseus. However, his regret is that Polyphemus’s dad just conveniently happened to be Poseidon, god of the sea. Polyphemus uses that to his advantage, cursing Odysseus, and Poseidon, as well as other events, knock out all of Odysseus’s crew excluding Odysseus. However, the enchantress Circe gave a prophecy that Odysseus didn’t believe in: that the entirety of Odysseus’s crew was knocked out, and that Odysseus would struggle to get back to his homeland, …show more content…
He uses this to his advantage because several suitors are trying to win his wife’s, Penelope, hand in marriage. Odysseus “in one motion string the bow. Then slid his right hand down the cord and plucked it…” After stringing the bow, total annihilation. Because that is what you do to “guests”. Casually, He and Telemachus have the maids that the suitors were sleeping with clean up the dead bodies and then hang the maids. After the mass murder, Odysseus still has to prove to Penelope that he is who he claims he is by saying something that only he and Penelope would know: that the bed is impossible to move due to how it was built.
After mass murder, a longer than necessary odyssey, monsters, and everything in between, “The Odyssey” is a chaotic story. With this being originally told by Homer, a blind poet, a lot of literacy and weirdness can be learned from “The Odyssey”. “The Odyssey” is also confusing to read, but reread it a couple times, and it makes sense, as with every other poem. In the end, “Luke, I am your father” easily relates to “The
After winning his fight, he spent 20 years for what should have been 2 weeks, according to google maps. The reason why it took 20 years? Well, he came across different obstacles such as being trapped on Calypso’s island for 7 years (which, by the way he wasn’t entirely unwilling to stay.) Another stop was at a cyclops cave, whose name was Polyphemus. This time, Odysseus and his crew spent the weekend, faking Odysseus’ name to be “nobody,” waiting to drunken Polyphemus, then stab his eye out, taking some sheep with. Because that’s what you do with people you haven’t met before. Then again, Polyphemus could care less about Odysseus and his crew, like when they first met, Polyphemus said, “Strangers, who are you? And where from? … We Cyclopes care not a whistle about your thundering Zeus...” When Odysseus and his crew goes to leave, Odysseus has to get a few words in, with those words being that he was not “Nobody,” but instead Odysseus. However, his regret is that Polyphemus’s dad just conveniently happened to be Poseidon, god of the sea. Polyphemus uses that to his advantage, cursing Odysseus, and Poseidon, as well as other events, knock out all of Odysseus’s crew excluding Odysseus. However, the enchantress Circe gave a prophecy that Odysseus didn’t believe in: that the entirety of Odysseus’s crew was knocked out, and that Odysseus would struggle to get back to his homeland, …show more content…
He uses this to his advantage because several suitors are trying to win his wife’s, Penelope, hand in marriage. Odysseus “in one motion string the bow. Then slid his right hand down the cord and plucked it…” After stringing the bow, total annihilation. Because that is what you do to “guests”. Casually, He and Telemachus have the maids that the suitors were sleeping with clean up the dead bodies and then hang the maids. After the mass murder, Odysseus still has to prove to Penelope that he is who he claims he is by saying something that only he and Penelope would know: that the bed is impossible to move due to how it was built.
After mass murder, a longer than necessary odyssey, monsters, and everything in between, “The Odyssey” is a chaotic story. With this being originally told by Homer, a blind poet, a lot of literacy and weirdness can be learned from “The Odyssey”. “The Odyssey” is also confusing to read, but reread it a couple times, and it makes sense, as with every other poem. In the end, “Luke, I am your father” easily relates to “The