A study of the characters Odysseus and Poseidon as depicted in Homers Odyssey

An investigation of the characters Odysseus and Poseidon as portrayed in Homer's Odyssey After the occasions of the Trojan War, Odysseus and his men headed back home to Ithaca. In transit, they unconsciously halted at the island of the Cyclopes to assemble supplies for their long excursion home. Sadly, the occupants of the island were not well disposed †especially one Cyclops named Polyphemus. While trying to avoid different goliaths, Odysseus and his men stowed away in Polyphemus’s cavern. Polyphemus then caught the men inside with a monstrous rock obstructing the main path in and out. Individually, Polyphemus ate Odysseus’s team. Odysseus, keeping a level head, thought of an arrangement to get away. Odysseus had some undiluted wine with the rest of his personal effects, and cunningly offered it to Polyphemus without revealing to him how solid the wine was. Polyphemus energetically took the wine, got alcoholic, and instantly nodded off. Odysseus and his outstanding men warmed a wooden stake in a fire, and continued to daze Polyphemus’s one eye. In the wake of wailing in torment, the men covered up under the giant’s sheep, where they couldn't be felt and eaten. The following morning, when Polyphemus let his sheep out to touch, Odysseus and his men escaped underneath the sheep’s wooly guts, and ran away to their boat. Polyphemus understood that the men had gotten away after Odysseus was at that point adrift. Polyphemus tossed an (inadequately pointed) stone at the boat, and shouted to his dad Poseidon for retaliation. Poseidon, in his anger, wrecked Odysseus’s transport, just as his w hole team, over a ten-year venture back to Ithaca. Odysseus just endure in light of the fact that he had Athena’s favor and security. Odysseus’s Argument: Odysseus was carrying on of self-protection. As chief and ruler, he had an obligation to secure himself and his men no matter what. He utilized his brains to get away from a hazardous circumstance. He likewise didn't have a clue about that Polyphemus was child of Poseidon. Notwithstanding who Polyphemus was, Odysseus didn't slaughter him, in spite of the risk against Odysseus and his team; it would have been similarly as simple to execute him while alcoholic or sleeping. Poseidon, being a divine being, carries on of outrageous feeling, and concludes that the injury of his child warrants mass-murder. Odysseus thought objectively and saved the man-eating Polyphemus; Poseidon acted nonsensically, and destroyed Odysseus’s group. Poseidon could have been increasingly tolerant and cleared out Odysseus and his group rapidly. Rather Poseidon expanded Odysseus’s discipline and made him endure as he watched his whole beyond words the course of ten years. Besides, this all-inclusi ve excursion caused disturbance in Odysseus’s Kingdom of Ithaca. At the point when Odysseus left for Troy, his child, Telemachus, was too youthful to even think about taking the royal position. This left Penelope running the whole nation. While Odysseus was gone, admirers came to court Penelope, striking his royal residence while they were there. Since there was no evidence that Odysseus endure the Trojan War, the admirers continually forced Penelope to remarry. She would not like to, rather slowing down the admirers until Odysseus returned on the grounds that she accepted that he was as yet alive. Poseidon’s Argument: Before Poseidon did anything to Odysseus, he needed to get his thought affirmed by Zeus, lord of the divine beings. Besides, Odysseus was in Poseidon’s space, the sea, for the majority of his excursion, which places Odysseus in a problematic position as of now. Poseidon’s expected objective was Odysseus; the remainder of the team was inadvertent blow-back, yet in addition genuinely hurt Odysseus. Odysseus realized he was in the space of a divinity that could wreck him on each level; he had a lot of chances to prepare himself on the off chance that things turned out badly. Poseidon, as a god, requests more regard than an ordinary human. In Poseidon’s mind, this extraordinary treatment stretches out to his child. Harming his child Polyphemus was viewed as an individual affront. Obscure to Odysseus, he had divine security from Athena †an opponent god to Poseidon. Consequently, Poseidon previously didn't care for Odysseus; cutting Polyphemus in the eye just added to Poseidon’s contempt. Poseidon didn't hurt Odysseus, however caused him to endure, much the same as his child, by murdering his men gradually. Let the discipline fit the wrongdoing. Besides, there are times when Odysseus was narrow minded, however really flippant. While Penelope was maintaining her marriage pledges, Odysseus engaged in extramarital relations with Circe, a sorceress who had transformed his men into pigs while he had his indulgence. He additionally purposely went past the island of the Sirens, since he needed to hear their tune for himself. At last, he permitted his men to eat hallowed steers of the god Helios for seven days. This one demonstration censured his whole armada, boat and men, to pulverization. Zeus hit the boat with lightning, constraining Odysseus to swim to an island and live with a Calypso, an ocean fairy, for a long time. The remainder of his men suffocated. This shows Odysseus didn't generally regard the divine beings, and acted egotistically at whatever point it fit him.