The Odyssey
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- ConflictOdysseus's pride overtakes him and angers Polyphemus. This selfless act of pride leads up to the death of his soldiers.Text EvidenceOdysseus says, Good sir, do not refuse us, respect the gods.Polyphemus says, Stranger, you are a foreign or a fool, telling me to fear and revere the gods, since the cyclopes care nothing for aegis-bearing Zeus: we are greater than they.
- Give Us Supplies!
- ExpositionOdysseus and his men set sail to an island that is inhabited by many sheep, rocks, and cyclopes.Text EvidenceLooking across to the land of neighboring Cyclops, we could see smoke and hear their voices, and the sound of their sheep and goats. (this shows what inhabits the island). ... I went aboard and ordered my crew to follow and loose the cables. They boarded swiftly and took their place on the benches then sitting in their rows struck the grey water with their oars.
- It is time to explore.
- We shall look through this cave.
- Rising ActionOdysseus and his 12 men entered the cave and helped themselves to the cheese inside of the cave.Text EvidenceSoon we came to the cave, and found him absent; he was grazing his well-fed flocks in the fields. and ... ,and helped ourselves to the cheese, and sat in the cave eating, waiting for him to return, shepherding his flocks.
- ClimaxThe cyclops captures Odysseus and his men and begins eating two of them at a time as his meal. The men fall silent and hopeless. Odysseus is enraged by Polyphemus's act.Text EvidenceDevoid of pity, he was silent in response, but leaping up and laid hands on my crew. Two he seized and dashed to the ground like whelps, and their brains ran out and stained the earth.
- NO!
- Falling ActionOdysseus offers wine to Polyphemus causing him to get drunk. Polyphemus asks for Odysseus's name and he replies Nobody. This allows Odysseus and his men to stab him in his eye. They then tied themselves under the sheeps to make an escape out of the cave.Text EvidenceHere, Cyclops, have some wine to follow your meal of human flesh, so you can taste the sort of drink we carried in our ship. (Wine to get Polyphemus drunk), My name is Nobody. Nobody, my father, mother, and friends call me. (Tell Polyphemus his name is Nobody), They held the sharpened olivewood stake and thrust it into his eye, while I threw my weight on the end, and twisted it round and round, as a man bores the timbers of a ship with a drill that others twirl lower down with a strap held at both ends, and so keep the drill continuously moving. (They jab the stake into Polyphemus's eye), and The rams were fat with thick fleeces, fine large beasts with deep black wool. These I silently tied together in threes, with twists of willow on which that lawless monster, Polyphemus, slept. (They tied themselves under sheep to escape the cave.)
- My name is Nobody.
- ResolutionThe scheme of hiding under the sheep was successful. Odysseus and his men boarded the boat and began at the see. Polyphemus hurling chunks of the mountain out of rage.Text EvidenceMy words incensed him more. He ripped the top of a huge peak, then hurled a chunk at us; that mass fell just beyond our ship's dark prow. The sea surged as the mass dropped: and the wash thrust our ship backward, closer to the coast. and Odysseus calls him and his remaining men escapees from death.
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