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    Megan Callans Ms. Dezure Honors Literary Analysis and Composition 1 10 October 2014 Uncontrollable‚ Inescapable Fate “Maybe fate isn’t the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it‚ letting you run the line until you are weary enough to be reeled back in” (Jodi Picoult‚ Vanishing Acts). This quotation reflects the attitude that the Greek society had back in ancient times. They believed that the gods had control over their fates‚ and no matter how much they struggled‚ they wouldn’t

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    Polyphemus In The Odyssey

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    In the story of the Odyssey‚ Polyphemus is a cyclops that has one eye on his forehead that is blinded because of Odysseus. Odysseus is the king of his home‚ Ithaca‚ that is on a journey to get back to Ithaca with his crew after they fought in a war. He has faced many challenges on this journey that caused his character to be less desirable. Also he has lots of hair like most of the other cyclops do too‚ and really tall. His personality is he is not very smart‚ greedy‚ and loves to eat human flesh

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    Odysseus: a Hero

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    In today’s eclectic society‚ everybody’s heroes are different. However‚ during the era Homer’s The Odyssey was created all heroes had same characteristics. Heroes were the people who saved people; they were courageous wise and had fighting spirit. Odysseus‚ the main character in Homer’s epic poem was clever brave and a great strategist. Although he has these strengths‚ he has some negative qualities‚ but most of his heroic qualities still hold true today. Odysseus possesses heroic qualities‚ such

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    prevent them from swimming back to the island. Polyphemus Odysseus offering wine to the CyclopsA scouting party‚ led by Odysseus and his friend Misenus‚ landed in the territory of the Cyclops and ventured upon a large cave. They entered and proceeded to feast on the livestock that they found there. Unbeknownst to them‚ the cave was the dwelling of Polyphemus‚ a one-eyed giant who soon returned. Refusing hospitality to his uninvited guests‚ Polyphemus trapped them in the cave by blocking the entrance

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    sympathy they deserve. No one thinks about feeling sympathy for a horrific monster. Polyphemus the cyclops from Homer’s poem‚ The Odyssey is an atrocious creature who deserves sympathy. Although he was cruel to Odysseus’s men‚ sympathy is definitely felt for Polyphemus when the cyclops is robbed of everything he had. Polyphemus’s loss of his only friends‚ his sheep‚ causes readers to experience sympathy. While Polyphemus was not kind to Odysseus’s men‚ he was very fond

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    Hospitality: Odysseus & Polyphemus Portal: Seeking Wisdom Amanda Conley Salve Regina University Hospitality: Odysseus & Polyphemus Good hospitality is an expected practice in Greek culture. The King of gods‚ Zeus‚ supports proper hospitality. “Zeus of the Strangers guards all guests and suppliants: strangers are sacred—Zeus will avenge their rights!” (Odyssey‚ 9.304-5) The encounter between Odysseus and Polyphemus‚ also known as “the Cyclops”‚ showed a great example of poor hospitality

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    In modern day‚ man does not truly think about how much the earth means to life. On the contrary‚ humans aspire to cease Mother Nature’s beauty with the replacement of modern day cities made up of synthetic nature. Since the dawn of the twentieth century‚ a major theme in the American Arts has been the protest against man’s destruction of the natural world. With this in mind‚ as very well argued in Chief Seattle’s article “Respect”‚ humans fail to be conscious of the physical and sentimental value

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    adventurer to a conniving liar. The same goes for Polyphemus. He is referred to as a ruthless brute in the beginning of book 9‚ the quotation I will be using is from the end of chapter 9 lines 490-514 and percives him in a different way. Polyphemus is much more than a heartless monster like he is often thought of as. In my opinion Odysseus is more of a monster than Polyphemus. The passage I chose starts out the day after Odysseus leaves and Polyphemus is left in torment in his cave. "As soon as

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    the myth regarding Cyclops Polyphemus‚ written by Homer‚ Theocritus‚ and Ovid‚ respectively. All three authors portrayed Cyclops Polyphemus in different ways‚ according to their own views. Homer portrayed Polyphemus as a violent monster‚ Theocritus portrayed him as a lovesick creature‚ and Ovid portrayed him as a mix of Homer and Theocritus’s portrayal. In this essay‚ I will be doing an analysis of the similarities and differences on all three versions of Cyclops Polyphemus. In Homers’ Odyssey‚ Homer

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    Polyphemus Rewrite: New Coasts and Poseidon’s Son (Book IX) I awoke from within my cave filled with food and drink and shortly after went on with my normal task of pasturing my sheep and collecting some timber for my fire. As I came back into my cave a threw down the timber and started to ready my ewes in which I wished to milk that night and closed the end of my cave with a huge rock. With milking the ewes I am very good due to my strength and practice‚ I used the curds I made from the milk to drink

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