This diction at the beginning of the poem communicates the idea of temptation being strong and powerful. The speaker immediately opens the theme of dangerous desires in the first line by expressing her view that “everyone/ would like to learn” this song to lure the men in close to themselves (1-2). This line also represents an element of exaggeration because the sirens never left their cliff and so to claim that “everyone” has a desire to learn the song is a hyperbole (1). This shows the speakers attitude towards her lifestyle and that she is attempting to convey that she is indeed trapped away from everyone. Atwood also uses colons in the first stanza to represent that the poem in its entirety is a description and definition of the irresistible siren song.
This story also shows Odysseus’ resourceful attribute when he uses the rams for concealment. In the story of the Sirens he uses the wax from the ship to block the ears of his comrades, which shows resourcefulness. Additionally, the story of the Sirens shows that Odysseus is unable to endure the temptations of the sirens, as he struggles and calls to be released. From surviving this ultimate test of forbearance, Odysseus learns endurance and later, when he returns to Ithaca he will need this skill. His temper during these four books can be ungovernable, as he says: ‘Now when Eurylochus said that, I considered drawing the long sword from my sturdy side and lopping his head off to roll in the dust, but my men held me back and calmed me down’1.
He carried out the plan anyway, showed his bravery and put aside his fears. Odysseus had to go through twenty years of turmoil before he could get home to his beloved Penelope and son, Telemachus. “Now shrugging off his rags the wiliest fighter of the islands leapt and stood on the broad door still, his own bow in his hand. (Homer, 22. 231-233).
The Odyssey While with the Phaeacians, Odysseus relates his trials and tribulations since the fall of Troy. However, when he arrives in Phaeacia, he arrives alone; all of his men have died. He has had a violent and gruesome journey home. Despite this loss, however, his effectiveness as a leader is evident. He is powerful, clever, and determined in everything he does.
Overreaching Don’t Pay (pg 186) Huck cannot stand the frauds anymore when he sees Mary-Jane crying over the slaves sold and have their families separated, so he tells Mary-Jane the truth about the frauds and devises a plan to jail the king and his duke, which Huck feels proud of because even “Tom Sawyer couldn’t ’a’ done it no neater himself” (195). XXIX. I Light Out in the Storm (pg195) The day Mary-Jane went to town was the same day that the real Harvey and William return. The townspeople along with Dr. Robinson and lawyer Levi Bell inspects the frauds and almost immediately reveals their fraud identities. XXX.
Their desire for Circe to exploit their weakness, trick them, and turn them into pigs. Odysseus, with advice from Hermes, goes to Circe’s island to rescue his men. When the goddess tries to strike at him with her sword, he lunges toward her. Odysseus draws his sword; perhaps Homer wants to show a woman’s appeal and sexuality as a threat to the male dominance. Even though Odysseus is wise and resourceful, there are times he finds himself lost when he is in these type of situations with seductive women.
The goddess Athena was the main patron of Odysseus and she was a rival to Poseidon, by beating him in the patron deity of Athens. He was supremely mad at Odysseus for blinding his son Polyphemus the Cyclops Odysseus and his men blinded and stole food from. Poseidon is God of the sea, offending him caused numerous delays in Odysseus’ sea voyage home. King Aeolus God of the winds welcomed Odysseus kindly on his island. Offered his winds to help Odysseus and his men get home briefly.
Jack the Tyrant In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Jack symbolizes control and power on the island. He clearly wants to be in control when he proclaim that he “Ought to be chief… because i can sing high C” (22), and then shows disappointed when Ralph is elected by his freckles disappearing “under the blush of mortification”(23). This symbolizes how he believed he should be chief because he can sing high C. A pointless reason but starts to show his thirst for power and his resentment of Ralph after Ralph was elected over him. Again he shows this wanting control over others when they caught the first pig, and he began to realize he had the “knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken
Eventually Proctor is also thrown in jail and in due time is convinced to confess to witchcraft, they have him sign a written confession that will justify all of the other higher stature hangings, Proctor realizes this after he has already signed, “( his breast heaving, is eyes staring, Proctor tears the paper and crumples it, and he is weeping in fury, but erect. )”(Miller 4. 739-40) yet again he acts on the spot with no warning or sign what so ever, he tears the confession so they cannot use his name to hang all the other accused, he is then lead away at dawn with no legal confession to hang at the gallows ending the play an a very dark
Odysseus and had not seen his wife and son for 20-plus years. He was desperate to see his wife and son, so much that he would do anything to get to them. Unless there was a different way to get home that would save the crew, he chose his family over his crew. He was selfish in that he was willing to sacrifice the entire ship to get to his family. Odysseus cared for his crew but realized if he told them the truth, he would never get home.