Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Odyssey

death, there is a discovery of Homer’s dead body laying in the bed upstairs. It appears

attempted to make Miss Emily once again pay her taxes. They met no success in doing so and did nothing further. The same was so when Miss Emily bought arsenic. The pharmacist requested a reason for buying it, but without an answer, he let Miss Emily do as she pleased. When a disgusting odor came from Miss Emily's House, instead of telling her to fix the problem and hurt her pride, four men attempted to fix it themselves in secret. Overall Miss Emily answered to no one.

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and traveled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”- Homer. Why do people go on journeys? What is the benefit, if anything? The Odyssey, written by Homer, describes the life of a man, Odysseus, who undertakes a journey to reach a destination. Leaving his home town of Ithaca, he arrives at Troy for the Trojan War.

In Book IX of the Odyssey, Homer uses imagery and foreshadow to illustrate how the cyclopes’ loneliness can significantly reveal how Odysseus and his men gets involved in a conflict with the cyclopes later on in the book. Homer uses foreshadow to develop the plot and build suspense. For example, Homer uses imagery to show what it was like when Odysseus encounters the land of the Cyclopes. Using imagery, readers can interpret the Cyclopes’ living conditions as well as their personality. The phrases “screened with laurel”, “cavern yawning”, “A prodigious man slept in this cave alone”, and “he seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude” shows that the Cyclopes are living in an isolated society and are very lonely on their island. Also,

Home is a place of comfort, clarity, and relaxation. In The Odyssey, Odysseus uses a reverse metaphor in order to prove that one is truly at home in the presence of family and loved ones. When separated from this amenity, the emotional toll can cause a change of identity. In this particular passage, Odysseus morphs into the image of a distraught woman. This dramatic change represents the effect of Odysseus’ lack of contentment within his body and soul while away from home, which is represented by his wife, Penelope.

2) What does the title of the story suggest about the townspeople’s feelings toward Miss Emily? Why do they feel this way about her? (Or: What does she represent to them?) Is there anything ironic about their feelings?

If you were married, would you still be in love with your spouse if they were gone for 20 years? Try reading an ancient and epic poem, told and written by Homer, titled the Odyssey. The odyssey is a well known tale relating to a man named Odysseus on a very treacherous journey home, for about 20 years, from the Trojan war. Poseidon, god of the seas was the main cause of the length of time it took Odysseus to get home, because of one sinful act. Odysseus has blinded one of Poseidon's sons, which caused Poseidon to punish Odysseus by keeping him from home as long as possible.

In the story “The Veldt” Ray Bradbury focused deeply on the craft move of foreshadowing to keep the readers predicting. In this story there is several scenes that foreshadowing is used to get the reader predicting. These scenes actually get the reader predicting because of how they are written you always want to find out what happens next. In this story the author adds a scene in the story where the parents are near the nursery.

In Book 21, lines 406-9 of his Odyssey, Homer offers the following simile: as when a man, who well understands the lyre and singing, easily, holding it on either side, pulls the strongly twisted cord of sheep’s gut, so as to slip it over a new peg, so, without any strain, Odysseus strung the great bow. Here, Odysseus, disguised as the stranger, reunites with his bow for the first time since returning to Ithaka. He admires it and analyzes it to ensure it is truly his, and he then proceeds to string it effortlessly. On the surface, one observes how Odysseus’ effortless ability, alongside his awareness of his ability to do so will lead the suitors to a sorrowful fate.

Suspense is used many times in the writing of The Odyssey. Many different literary device were used in the epic poem, but foreshadowing is most common. Near the beginning of Book 21 of The Odyssey it is written the Antinous, the lead suitor, was “fated to be the first man to taste an arrow whipped from King Odysseus’ hand” (Homer 111). This is also dramatic irony and it adds tension to the story by allowing the reader to know what will transpire before the actual event. Another instance of foreshadowing is when Leodes says after attempting to string the King’s bow “here is a bow to rob our best of life and breath” (Homer 174-175). In those words Leodes, who is a seer, seems to have an idea of the imminent fate

again when Emily buys arsenic from the pharmacy. When Emily persuades the pharmacist into selling the poison to her, encrypted on the poison bottle were a picture of skull and bones. Based on the knowledge that we know during this part of the story, the reader and the townspeople can infer that Emily intends to use the arsenic to kill herself from grief. However, the image of skulls and bones actually foreshadows the event where Homer has been diminished into nothing else but bones and dust

The narrator in “A Rose for Emily” states, “Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (Faulkner 734). This quote is an explanation of the reaction Emily has when the druggist asks what she needs to buy the arsenic for. She chooses to keep her reasoning quietly to herself, leaving his mind in a state of looming curiosity. Then the narrator adds, “Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows- she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house…” (Faulkner 734). Emily stays in her home, letting no one know of her reasoning or of her sickness. Also, she closes-up the upstairs, which is another secretive action that the towns people do not understand. Similarly, in A Doll House, Doctor Rank is concerned with Nora’s well-being, and she replies, “It’s only some- it’s my new dress” (Ibsen 1476). She lies to Doctor Rank, adding that she is bothered by her new dress. She is truly thinking about the calling card that the maid had just handed her. Additionally, Nora tells Kristine Linde, “…I’m telling you: nobody else has known about this…” (Ibsen ). She talks to her about the secret she has kept from every person she is acquainted with. This secret is about forging her father’s name on the loan she received from Krogstad. This secrecy builds suspense on what each character will

After living so long as a victim of loneliness perpetrated by her father, Emily decides that she will be vindicated-she will have her man. She orders a toiletry set to be engraved with Homer's initials, purchases an outfit and a nightshirt for him, and buys the arsenic that is to seal his fate. When the townspeople enter her house for the first time in forty years, they find a bridal tomb: a tarnished toiletry set, a neatly pressed suit, and a rotting Homer Baron clad in the nightshirt wearing a "profound and fleshless grin" (87).

The first literary device used to show growth of a character is setting. The setting can place a hero anywhere and give detail to his past. Such as in the Odysses, “I will take no horses back with me to Ithaca,but will leave them to adorn your own stables, for you have much flatground in your kingdom where lotus thrives, as also meadowsweet and wheat and barley, and oats with their white and spreading ears; whereas in Ithaca we have neither open fields nor racecourses, and the country is more fit for goats than horses, and I like it the better for that. None of our islands have much level ground, suitable for horses, and Ithaca least of all (Homer). "

(1-3) The hand of the Lord came upon me, and He brought me out in the Spirit and sat me down in the middle of a valley. This valley was full of dry bones. He took me all throughout the valley. I attempted to count the number of bones, but there were too many. It seemed that a great army had been slaughtered in the valley long ago. The bones had to have been there for many years because they were very dry. As I examined the bones the Lord asked me a question: “son of man, can these bones live?” I thought to myself, these bones have been here a long time. Any chance for them to live has passed long ago, but who am I to question God. So I responded with a simple answer, “Lord, only you know this.”