Cyclops
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- The escape plan
- I shall take the thickest ram of the flock to use for myself. Let us hope that we can hold out till morning.
- Out of the ordinary
- "‘Sweet cousin ram, why lag behind the rest in the night cave? You never linger so, but graze before them all, and go afar to crop sweet grass, and take your stately way leading along the streams, until at evening you run to be the first one in the fold."(226-231)
- Are you prehaps greiving the loss of your master's eye? I swear I will never let "Nohbdy" come out alive. I will bash him with my bare hands and against the wall, with his brains splattered on the floor!
- "O Cyclops! Would you feast on my companions? Puny, am I, in a Caveman’s hands? How do you like the beating that we gave you, you damned cannibal? Eater of guests under your roof! Zeus and the gods have paid you!’"(258-262)
- The final battle
- Do not provoke the beast captain! We need to sail away from here as soon as possible
- Odysseus couldn't laugh at the success of his plan for long. The Cyclops had grown angry, flinging his arms around to catch any fool who dared to run. He still had to find a way of escape. Odysseus thought long and hard, going through all his tactics. That's when he thought of the beast's fat rams. They were big with a coat of thick fur, perfect for hiding under. He used the cords of willow from the ogre's bed to tie 3 sheep per man, so they could be tightly shielded in the middle of the flock. Odysseus himself took the thickest and wooliest ram of the flock, tightly hanging onto the fur on its belly while they waited for morning to arrive.
- The near escape
- As morning arose, the rams became to spread out toward the pasture. The Cyclops stroked the rams as they called for a milking. But the ogre had noticed something out of the ordinary. The usual leader of the rams had lingered far behind the rest, being the last one to come. The giant stroked the ram while questioning why the one who always grazed ahead was so behind. He assumed the ram had been grieving over his master's eye. The beast cursed Odysseus' name, naming all the gruesome things he will do to "Nohbdy".
- The offer
- "‘If I could take your life I would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell!"
- That was a close one.
- At last, the beast had finally let the ram out into the open. Odysseus rolled off the ram and went to untie his men. They ran to where their perfect ship laid. They didn't have time to grieve for those who didn't make it out. The 5 men loaded the rams onto the ship and stroked their oars to sea. Odysseus' and his ego couldn't help but get the last laugh, boasting to the giant of their victory, telling him to eat his companions.
- The prayer
- "Should destinyintend that he shall see his roof againamong his family in his fatherland,far be that day, and dark the years between.Let him lose all companions, and returnunder strange sail to bitter days at home.’ . . .” "(315-320)
- Odysseus' boasting did not end well, with the beast throwing a hilltop at them out of anger, throwing them back to shore. He had to fend his men off with a boathook as they tried to sail back to sea. The men who remained on the ship begged him not to provoke the beast again.
- "AyeHe’ll smash our timbers and our heads together!’"(281-282)
- The Cyclops had exclaimed his unhappiness for having such a small, twiggy, and pitiful creature to be the one to blind him. But he offers Odysseus that he will treat him very well if he were to return. Odysseus only shouts back hurtful words.
- "Come back, Odysseus, and I’ll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you— his son I am, for he by his avowal ..."(299-301)
- The beast climbed onto the rocks and opened his arms out to pray to the god of Poseidon for the disastrous fate that awaits Odysseus on his journey home. Cursing him to lose all his companions, never see his family again, having long pitiful years, and return to bitter days if he ever is to return home.
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