1. if you were one of odysseus's shipmates, how would you feel about him? is he foolhardy or a reliable leader?He is a reliable leader because he knew how to defeat Troy and the obstacles going back home.
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2. the odyssey was used as a part of greek children's education for centuries after the poem was written down. how could the adventure with the lotus eaters teach us about the temptation to forget our troubles by dropping out of society?In the book The Lotus Eaters they ate the plants because it caused the people to sleep in peaceful apathy. The plant also mostly dominated the island meaning that, that was their only supply of food they had.
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3. how does odysseus describe the cyclopes' way of life? contrast their customs with those of an ideal human community (be sure to think about the significance of the cannibalism). |
4. "nobody" in greek is outis, which sounds like odysseus. in this episode, how does odysseus show that he is clever with language? what curse at the end of this adventure foreshadows trouble? |
He describes it as a horrid creature, not like a human being at all, lives in a dirty cave where he tends his goats. Odysseus and his men describe it as barbaric.
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He is being clever because he makes the Cyclops say that he is being hurt by nobody which makes Odysseus and his men escape the cave.
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1. do you think odysseus has changed since he started on his adventures? explain your responses to odysseus as a hero. |
2. what simile in lines 1031-1032 describes the feelings of odysseus and his son as they embrace after twenty years? how would you describe exactly what the father and his son are feeling here? |
I think that Odysseus did change over time due to what he had gone through. Odysseus changed because when he came back home he had for skill due to fighting with monsters and honor.
3. dramatic irony refers to a situation in which readers or the audience knows more than the characters. where in the scene in the swine-herd's hut do we get a great sense of dramatic irony?The part where Odysseus and Emmaus is where it shows an example of dramatic irony because Emmaus was not able to recognize Odysseus through his guise of a beggar but Argos did.
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The simile compares their cries of burst and their keen fluttering to a great talon hawk. Which means that that’s how they would of sounded or looked like. The way that they must feel is excited for meeting each other after 20 years.
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