Land Of The Cyclops Analysis

Land of The Cyclops In Homer’s “Land of The Cyclops” Odysseus get trapped in the cave owned by Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon. While they are there, the story describes in detail, about how the men were eaten and how the cyclops eye was punctured. The story also shows how Odysseus and his men tricked Polyphemus in order to escape. This gives a tone of trickery and gore to the story. This story was also summarized in the way of a poem, called “The Blinding of Polyphemus” by Robert Dickerson. The poem consists of very descriptive words that give an even greater tone of gore. Lastly, a painting called “Odysseus in the cave of Polyphemus” by Jacob Jordaens. It depicts how Odysseus and his men used the sheep to escape the cave of Polyphemus. All together, these three different styles of the story “Land of The Cyclops” shows the tones of gore and trickery through the descriptive manner that these representations appear in and by showing what Odysseus and his men had to go through to escape the cave of the cyclops. In Homer’s story, “Land of The Cyclops”, Odysseus and his men come up with a plan to destroy Polyphemus’s
In this painting, the author showed how Odysseus and his men took advantage of the blinding of the cyclops that they cause by hiding under his sheep that he lets out every morning to eat which supports the tone of trickery. Polyphemus was only feeling the tops of the sheep and not the bottom, so Odysseus and his men used that to their advantage and tied themselves to the bottom of the sheep. After all the men escaped and got on their ship, Odysseus began taunting Polyphemus and Odysseus also spoke of his real name and his home land. Because of that Polyphemus prays to his father to curse Odysseus to make sure it will be one long trip