Polyphemus

This Cyclops is Polyphemus, son of Poseidon. Homer uses the physical appearance of the first Cyclops that Odysseus sees to show that they are monsters and that Odysseus should be wary of…

the cause of Odysseus’ struggles to arrive home to his wife and son. If it were not for Polyphemus’, Poseidon’s son, request to his father to kill Odysseus on his journey home or ensure he lives a life of struggles, there would be no journey home for Odysseus. Since the gods and people believed in justice, Polyphemus wanted justice on Odysseus in the form of revenge. The main reason for justice was due to Odysseus’s disrespect to Poseidon. Thus, Odysseus’ disloyalty to Poseidon caused a need for…

In the original tale of The Odyssey, through the poem, Poseidon is indignant when regarding Odysseus as he had blinded his son, a cyclops named Polyphemus. However in the film conversion of The Odyssey, the god Poseidon aids Odysseus in convincing the Trojans to take the offering (a wooden horse filled with Greek soldiers) into their walls of Troy. He does so by ordering his sea monster to devour Laocoön, who told the Trojans to burn the horse; and when Laocoön dies the Trojans consider the…

works as a form of backfire, how disguise builds up suspense and tension into the story and how the use of disguise is used to help convey a false identity all through the character of Odysseus. There are times in which the themes of disguise and revelation display Odysseus as not being the hero. Throughout the books, Odysseus continually hides his identity in situations where it would seem like it wouldn’t be wise. At times there is a sense of wanting to reveal himself to those around him…

Theocritus, concentrates on emotional values of humans and gods. A specific case can be identified in the Cyclops Polyphemus. Homer depicts Polythemus as a savage monster who feasts on Odysseus’s men, whereas Theocritus illustrates him as a sentimental Cyclops in love with the nymph Galatea. In the Classical world of Homer, humans and gods are focused on war and vengeance. Characters like Odysseus and Achilles are consumed with the virtue of honor and the idea of being the hero. The depiction…

stabbed him in the eye. The other cyclops did not know who did this to Polyphemus, since Odysseus went by the name of “Nohbody”. Later, he placed his men under the sheep to hide them and rode to their freedom this was mentioned in book 9 lines 280-319. Next, he demonstrates his leadership by making the wise choice of guiding his men through Scylla. Circe told him that if they went through Charybdis they had no chance and all of his men would die. But if they went to Scylla, he would lose six men…

While on his journeys to return to his home, beloved wife, and son, he showed us, the readers, his best traits: his intelligence and cleverness. When he meets the giant Cyclops, named Polyphemus, he is put into a treacherous ordeal and must think his way out of the cave, where the Cyclops trapped him in. With the slight help of the Goddess, Athena, he comes up with a plan to blind the Cyclops. When Polyphemus opens up the cave to ask the other Cyclopes for help after the plan had been carried…

After Odysseus and his crew outsmarted the Cyclops Polyphemus Odysseus inquires, “Cyclops, if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes’ son, whose home’s on Ithaca!(Homer 1222). Odysseus has done wrong of the Cyclops who has bigger and greater power than he does. Odysseus was boastful and took claim on Polyphemus’s eye. Polyphemus then prayed to Poseidon to cause trouble for Odysseus’s journey. At the end of the…

turn the men into pigs. Big Dan Teague with one eye is another excellent representation of the Cyclops Polyphemus. Big Dan is a pastor of the people and Polyphemus is the Shepard of some sheep. Big Dan Teague squeezes the toad that Delmar thinks is Pete to death. Polyphemus the Cyclops kills some of Odysseus men by eating them. Vernon T Waldrip represents the suitors as he is trying to marry Penny while Everett was away. Penny believes a train hit Everett, which is similar to Penelope…

trojan horse and filled with solders to attack the other side in the night which upset the gods. While Odysseus is trying to get home from a 10-year long journey, he faced many hardships, such as meeting a Cyclopes, who enjoys human flesh, going to the land of the dead, finding out his mother died, and finally returning home but later finding out that the suitors are trying to overthrow his kingdom. Odysseus when compared to Elon Musk proves to be a hero through his cleverness, conflict with…