The Transformation Of Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey
Odysseus is a man that is known as the most clever man on the expedition. He is the man that came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse when his plan worked, he then believed that intelligence was the key to life. While on his expedition, Odysseus changes moods and his way of thought.
Odysseus encounters a major setback when he lands on the island of the Cyclops. This quote shows that he wanted to make it look like an accident,“We are Achaians coming from Troy, beaten off our true course by winds from every direction across the great gulf of the open sea, making for home, by the wrong way, on the wrong courses. So we have come. So it has pleased Zeus to arrange it.” This shows that Odysseus wanted to make Polyphemus think that it wasn’t his …show more content…
fault that he came to his island. He wanted to get sympathy from Polyphemus. Odysseus tries to blame his actions on the gods, but Polyphemus still eats Odysseus’s men.
Odysseus asks his men to draw short straws from his hand, and they all do.
The next quote shows this,“Next I told the rest of the men to cast lots, to find out which of them must endure with me to take up the great beam and spin it in the Cyclops' eye when sweet sleep had come over him. The ones drew it whom I myself would have wanted chosen, four men, and I myself was the fifth, and allotted to them.” I believe that he did not want to be the only one impaling the cyclops' eye as he could be killed. Odysseus has great ideas but he does not have the braveness to execute them himself. This shows that Odysseus came up with one of his usual plans but was to scare to execute it himself.
Odysseus had become really self-congratulatory about his cleverness. This is what he answered next,“Cyclops, in the end it was no weak man’s companions you were to eat by violence and force in your hollow cave, and your evil deeds were to catch up with you, and be too strong for you, hard one, who dared to eat your own guests in your own house, so Zeus and the rest of the gods have punished you.” I believe Odysseus was taking advantage of the cyclops. He used his cleverness to harass him even though he could have left him alone. Odysseus went too far and abused his cleverness.
Odysseus changed methods throughout the story, this makes him a dynamic character. Throughout the story, Odysseus learns to control himself, including his patience, and arrogance. He was still clever but was a different man when he returned to his home in
Ithaca.
Odysseus encounters a major setback when he lands on the island of the Cyclops. This quote shows that he wanted to make it look like an accident,“We are Achaians coming from Troy, beaten off our true course by winds from every direction across the great gulf of the open sea, making for home, by the wrong way, on the wrong courses. So we have come. So it has pleased Zeus to arrange it.” This shows that Odysseus wanted to make Polyphemus think that it wasn’t his …show more content…
fault that he came to his island. He wanted to get sympathy from Polyphemus. Odysseus tries to blame his actions on the gods, but Polyphemus still eats Odysseus’s men.
Odysseus asks his men to draw short straws from his hand, and they all do.
The next quote shows this,“Next I told the rest of the men to cast lots, to find out which of them must endure with me to take up the great beam and spin it in the Cyclops' eye when sweet sleep had come over him. The ones drew it whom I myself would have wanted chosen, four men, and I myself was the fifth, and allotted to them.” I believe that he did not want to be the only one impaling the cyclops' eye as he could be killed. Odysseus has great ideas but he does not have the braveness to execute them himself. This shows that Odysseus came up with one of his usual plans but was to scare to execute it himself.
Odysseus had become really self-congratulatory about his cleverness. This is what he answered next,“Cyclops, in the end it was no weak man’s companions you were to eat by violence and force in your hollow cave, and your evil deeds were to catch up with you, and be too strong for you, hard one, who dared to eat your own guests in your own house, so Zeus and the rest of the gods have punished you.” I believe Odysseus was taking advantage of the cyclops. He used his cleverness to harass him even though he could have left him alone. Odysseus went too far and abused his cleverness.
Odysseus changed methods throughout the story, this makes him a dynamic character. Throughout the story, Odysseus learns to control himself, including his patience, and arrogance. He was still clever but was a different man when he returned to his home in
Ithaca.