Examples Of Irony In The Odyssey

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The Odyssey, an epic written by Homer, discusses dramatic irony which is the contradiction between what a character thinks what the reader or audience knows to be true and in "The Cyclops", Homer entertains the audience by describing the situation in an overly dramatic way. One of the messages that Homer conveys through "The Cyclops" episode is leadership is achieved by intelligence not brute force. This is displayed by Odysseus when he tells the Cyclops his name is Nohbody and afterwards when the Cyclopses eye is stabbed out, by Odysseus, the Cyclops yells out for help saying "Nohbody, Nohbody's tricked me"(403). Odysseus's intelligence in this situation allowed him and his crew to escape. Homers intended audience

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Dramatic Irony In The Odyssey

of suspense comes back. Odysseus disguising himself as a peasant or beggar in front of the suitors, his wife, and his son, while the audience knows who he really is, all add dramatic irony for the reader. Homer effectively uses Odysseus’ disguises to create dramatic irony that adds suspense for the reader in The Odyssey. When Odysseus is disguised as a peasant in front of all the suitors, and they are all insulting him, not knowing that he plans on killing them. They were verbally abusing him, saying…

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Five Hundred Pages of Greek Mythology Mrs. D’s class used The Odyssey as an example of Greek mythology. The Odyssey shows all thirteen steps of the hero’s journey and the four functions of Greek mythology. Even though this book is five hundred pages long, it is an exemplar of Greek mythology, which is in contrast to most other Greek mythology stories that tend to be short. In the book The Odyssey the main character Odysseus is an exemplar of the hero’s journey. To begin, the initiate is Odysseus…

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character, a group a characters, or something non- human, such as nature or society. (As stated in the grade 9 literature book) My example of an antagonist is Tybalt compared to Romeo. Tybalt is constantly trying to start fights with Romeo and, eventually, he succeeds. Because of Tybalt, Romeo is banished from the city Verona, where his beloved wife Juliet lives. Another example of an Antagonist is, Paris compared to Juliet. Paris is the main reason that Juliet deems it necessary to take a potion to fake…

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