Demodocus sings about the love story during the war in Book 8 line 300 to 410. The song is about illicit affair between Ares, the god of war, the son of Zeus and Hera, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, the daughter of Zeus and Dione. And Hephaestus husband of Aphrodite tries to stop their adultery. The main theme here is that comparing with Odysseus his own experiences. Homer connected this story to Odysseus himself.
First of all, Ares and Aphrodite meet secretly in Hephaestus’s mansion, but the spy god, Helios, the load of the sun hears from a messenger about it and tell Hephaestus. (The Odyssey 8. 304-309) Hephaestus gets mad at Ares and considered the “revenge” to him. (8. 310) This revenge expresses the revenge of Odysseus …show more content…
And he produced the vast and thin like a web “chain”. (8. 311-319) Chain means not only anvil. It represents the power. Because he thinks that he is inferior than Ares he is ugly and have disable in his legs, on the other hand, Ares is handsome and has healthy muscled legs. (8. 352-353) In contrast, at the first time Odysseus meet Cyclops, who has one eye and kills and eat Odysseus’s colleagues in his cave. To escape from there, he come up with the idea that he gives a lot of wine and once he gets drunk, kills the Cyclops’s big eye. (9. 388-400) In case of Odysseus, the power is cleverness. As he is smart enough to think the better idea to overcome the hard situation, he is survived still.
Next, Hephaestus did the “cunning” that he tests them and lies about going to trip and Helios, the spy sees the they are making love. He talks to Hephaestus and he made a chain to tie Ares and Aphrodite on the bed when they come. (8. 330-340) Because of this cunning, his glory is passing out even he is a god. This story reminds them of Odysseus’s murder of Cyclops, the son of Poseidon. So, Odysseus’s glory may also pass out or what he cannot go back to his native land Ithaca may be on account of his …show more content…
378-9) This “shackle” has two meanings here. One is literally to tie her down to make her his own belonging and lay her under restraint because she is his wife, and the other means Hephaestus’s chain. On the other hand, Odysseus has to stack to the island because of Poseidon’s anger. He has not been able to go back to his native land since he went to the war. Therefore, he cannot move what he wants, he has no free and he is under the control of Poseidon. That means he is “shackled” by
First of all, Ares and Aphrodite meet secretly in Hephaestus’s mansion, but the spy god, Helios, the load of the sun hears from a messenger about it and tell Hephaestus. (The Odyssey 8. 304-309) Hephaestus gets mad at Ares and considered the “revenge” to him. (8. 310) This revenge expresses the revenge of Odysseus …show more content…
And he produced the vast and thin like a web “chain”. (8. 311-319) Chain means not only anvil. It represents the power. Because he thinks that he is inferior than Ares he is ugly and have disable in his legs, on the other hand, Ares is handsome and has healthy muscled legs. (8. 352-353) In contrast, at the first time Odysseus meet Cyclops, who has one eye and kills and eat Odysseus’s colleagues in his cave. To escape from there, he come up with the idea that he gives a lot of wine and once he gets drunk, kills the Cyclops’s big eye. (9. 388-400) In case of Odysseus, the power is cleverness. As he is smart enough to think the better idea to overcome the hard situation, he is survived still.
Next, Hephaestus did the “cunning” that he tests them and lies about going to trip and Helios, the spy sees the they are making love. He talks to Hephaestus and he made a chain to tie Ares and Aphrodite on the bed when they come. (8. 330-340) Because of this cunning, his glory is passing out even he is a god. This story reminds them of Odysseus’s murder of Cyclops, the son of Poseidon. So, Odysseus’s glory may also pass out or what he cannot go back to his native land Ithaca may be on account of his …show more content…
378-9) This “shackle” has two meanings here. One is literally to tie her down to make her his own belonging and lay her under restraint because she is his wife, and the other means Hephaestus’s chain. On the other hand, Odysseus has to stack to the island because of Poseidon’s anger. He has not been able to go back to his native land since he went to the war. Therefore, he cannot move what he wants, he has no free and he is under the control of Poseidon. That means he is “shackled” by