Cyclops and Cyclones

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The cyclone is one the most powerful natural disaster on earth. The cyclone is a mixture of cold and warm winds that around an “eye” creating a moving tunnel of air. In the Odyssey, by Homer, the Cyclopes are very much like cyclones in their strength and power and are both able to hurl giant and heavy on whim and can’t be stopped by any obstacles. The Cyclopes and cyclones share the immense power to hurl large objects like toys. In the Odyssey, Odysseus tricked a Cyclops into a drunken slumber and blinded it with a spear. The Cyclops “in his double fury broke a hill top and heaved to at us,” (769) while Odysseus was trying to escape. It caused the ship to become beached onto the shoreline. A cyclone is also able to do this feat. A cyclone is able to lift up debris by the revolving winds and throw it up to a mile away. This example shows how powerful both the Cyclops and cyclone really are. The Cyclops and a cyclone share another similarity but for different reasons. They are both formidable in strength and size compared to the things around them. The Cyclops is huge and powerful compared to all the life in the Odyssey. He was able to remove barriers and tear down obstacles in his way. Odysseus’s men weren’t able to take down the beast even if they tried. A cyclone is the same in this aspect. A cyclone is able to completely wipe out any forest or tear down any infrastructure in its way and can’t be stopped by any technology we have now. This is the reason why many people fear the Cyclops in the Odyssey and why we fear cyclones in this world. The Cyclops and a cyclone are very similar in their power and destructiveness compared to the world around them. They are both very formidable in their power they call on whim and their size to the humans. This shows why the Cyclops is a fearsome beast in Odyssey or even in this
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