The Cyclops In The Odyssey

The book the Odyssey by Homer has many various episodes and adventures. That is because it's an extended metaphor for our journey through life.

Odysseus faces many pearlous adventures in the odyssey, one of them being when Odysseus faces a cyclops named Polphemus and he and his crew enters in his home and gets stuck inside Polyphemus’s cave. So what they decide to do is they try to reason with the cyclops but the cyclops ends up eating some of his men barbarically. Odysseus was mad of this cyclops uncivilized life, so what he does is tells the cyclops that his name is “nobody” and gives him a taste of wine over and over until Polyphemus falls asleep. While he's asleep the crew and Odysseus crafts a spear which they use to pierce the cyclops eye which abruptly wakes him up
He then runs to move the Boulder blocking the exit and tells his brothers “ “ but because Odysseus lied of his name the brothers didn't come. To get out of the cave they hid under the cyclops Rams and escaped. When Odysseus is sailing away he tells Polyphemus his real name is Odysseus which was a bad idea because the cyclops father was Poseidon which he cursed Odysseus for his travel back to Ithaca. Odysseus encounter with the cyclops can be linked with our lives in many interesting ways. The way Odysseus makes his assumptions about polyphemus’s appearances and life styles and how he is barbaric, ugly, and a horrid creature is like how people in real life look at someone and automatically think that just because there ugly that they live a barbaric life style. Another link with our lives would be that you can't just barge into someone's home and expect them to house you and give you food. Odysseus and