Scylla and Charybdis

he had to choose between losing six men to Scylla, a six-headed monster, or losing the whole ship and crew to Charybdis, a sea-monster who swallows huge amounts of water and spits the water out three times a day. The path through the cliffs was too narrow, and attempt to avoid one monster would result in facing the other one. Although goddess Circe forecasted the tragedy, she said Odysseus had to decide it himself, and Odysseus chose to pass through Scylla. While crossing, Odysseus armed to fight

The Odyssey written by Homer can be interpreted as an allegory for life’s journey. Throughput the novel, over a ten year time span the main character, Odysseus, faces many hardships. These difficulties range from craving his wife, to battling mythical creatures. Though in our contemporary working day, one might not be coming into contact with goddesses, we still face the same underlying troubles as Odysseus. One’s present day life journeys can be interpreted through Odysseus’ adventures to depict

Odysseus, the lone survivor of his crew, returned home to Ithaca after twenty years, only to see that is home is filled with suitors. Over the twenty years he was gone, he saw Polyphemus, the cyclops, The Sirens, Scylla, and the courageous whirlpool Charybdis. They all attempted to kill the heroic Odysseus but failed to. The author of the epic poem, The Odyssey, is credited to Homer. Homer wrote his epic somewhere in eighth century BC. Some archetypes used in Homer’s epic heroic, monsters, and hospitality

the Odyssey. Odysseus faced many obstacles he passed all of them he past all of them to get to his penelope and son. Son obstacles were harder than others but the three hardest obstacles he had to face was the cyclopes island, going through scylla and charybdis, and arriving home too all those sutures. In the cyclopes island Odysseus and his men wander into the cyclopes cave, once the cyclopes enters his cave he shut the only way out of his cave and spots odysseus and his men. The cyclops asks odysseus

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, diction means choice of words especially with regard to clearness or effectiveness. With this being said, many writers use certain words to emphasize the tone of a story; including Homer, a legendary author to ancient Greeks. In his epic, the Odyssey, Homer uses diction to create a callous and candid tone when writing about the journey of a man, Odysseus, and his troubles returning home. While struggling through the rough sea, Odysseus, the protagonist

Towards the middle of the book when he goes to the underworld to find Teiresias. He goes by himself with none of his men all alone. I think that when he did this it made himself look very tough and strong. Towards the end where he goes by Charybdis and scylla

leaderships skills, is perseverance (SI1). When him and his men were sailing home to Ithaca and came upon Scylla and Charybdis, Odysseus motivated the crew and overcame a difficult obstacle and decision, “‘Friends, have we never been in danger before this?”(E1). Odysseus had to decide whether he would risk going past Charybdis which he could have lost all of his men or he could have gone by Scylla, and no doubt lose six men; this kind of decision is called a ‘rock in a hard place’ meaning he had to

with ease. The monster is an antagonist in the story because he is putting Odysseus at a disadvantage in his quest by preventing the escape of Odysseus and his men. During the story, Odysseus faces several supernatural antagonists including Scylla and Charybdis, and the Cyclops. However, supernatural antagonists are not the only things that make “The Odyssey” an epic. Odysseus and his crew receive help from and face many gods and goddesses. One example of these Gods is Zeus. In the story

ODYSSEUS'S TWENTY YEARS OF SUFFERING Odysseus must go through many sufferings to make it home to his Penelope. He is stuck in a Cyclopes's cave, he is surrounded by Scylla and Charybdis, and he has to go through hell. He does all this because he hasn't seen his beloved wife, Penelope, in over ten years. While Odysseus was stuck in the Cyclops' cave, six of his men were scooped up and eaten alive. But Odysseus mustered his men by saying," For in my bones I knew some towering brute would be upon us

monsters faced are Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla is a man-eating monster, while Charybdis is the whirlpool across from her. Both of these monsters can stop the men from returning home, if they are not careful when passing them. This shows that Odysseus fears women stopping their journey, because he can not kill a woman in the way he kills a man. Scylla lives along a cliff, attacking only when she knows she will be able to grab one of the men off the ship. If Odysseus tries to kill the Scylla he will make