The Consequences Of Eating In Homer's The Odyssey

Curiosity has lead Odysseus and myself into bigger and worse things in many ways. One way that happens is when Odysseus says, “those who [eat] this honeyed plant, the Lotus, never [care] to report, nor to return: they [long] to stay forever” (897). Odysseus and his men stumble onto an island, and Odysseus is nosy and wants to find out what race lives there. It ends up bad for him because some of his men eat the Lotus, and they don’t want to leave because they got addicted to it! Likewise with having curiosity leading to bigger and worse things by the Lotus Eaters, he also shows meddling leading to worse things when the Cyclops “swung high overhead a slab of solid rock to close the cave” (900).

Bananafish are greedy much like the countries who supported the war. Countries who wanted to rule the world with no dare for the cruelty and destruction suffered by so many, including Seymour Glass. According to the article “A Perfect Day for Bananafish Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed”, “...bananafish gorge themselves until they are too fat to escape the holes, thereby sealing their doom. Likewise, Seymour is a victim of gluttony” (“A Perfect Day for Bananafish Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed”). Seymour, a victim of war, was put on the front lines, a place of murder and combat.

Ruby Mendoza                                                                                                                    11-14-16              So far in the Odyssey Odysseus seems to be the most dangerous character for a couple of reasons. In book nine of the Odyssey Odysseus refuses to leave the Cyclopes Island out of curiosity. He said and I quote “ I wished to see the caveman, what he has to offer “. Staying on the island proves to be a mistake for many of his men were eaten by the cyclop. Odysseus sacrificed many of his men just to see this “ caveman”.

The souls of this circle are sinners of gluttony, people who spent their lives focused only on their craving for food and drink. Dante the Pilgrim describes Cerberus as a true monstrosity, in lines 13 to 33, the “ravening beast” who “howls through his triple throats like a mad dog”. With red eyes, a

Instead, Polyphemus the cyclops eats several of Odysseus’ men. Instead of leaving the island unscathed and with food, Odysseus’ curiosity caused tragic losses that could have been averted. Another instance of lack of self-control, is shown in “Sea Perils and Defeat” when they pass by the island of Thrinacia. Odysseus attempts to persuade his men to simply pass the island and to leave the cat, but it was to no avail. Driven by hunger, the men ignore his warnings to not feast on the cattle.

In The Odyssey, the Cyclops is a monster because of his key differences from mere human beings, specifically his lack of wit and of morals. Depicting these qualities as monstrous support that cleverness and a general regard for human life were heavily valued in Greek culture. Odysseus easily trick the Cyclops bragging, “I poured him another fiery bowl - three bowls I brimmed and three he drank to the last drop, the fool”(9.404-406). To describe the bowls of wine as fiery foreshadows the demise of the Cyclops. Odysseus was able to use his brain, not strength, to make the Cyclops drink himself into a stupor.

So, he armed his men and started shooting the big green giant with there bow and arrows while he cut the ropes off the rocks and slowly started floating away still shooting their bows. Boo got mad... Very mad… He grabbed 17 men off the boat and ripped them apart and ate them all in one bite. He noticed that the boat had started to float away. So, he jumped in the water and swam as fast as a marlin and caught up to it and slammed his fist on the humongous boat.

It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on” (3.3.187-189). This statement is directed towards Othello, and is significant for many reasons. This statement directly relates to how Iago is targeting Othello’s major weakness, which is jealousy. However, this quote also adds dramatic irony to the play because Iago’s major motive throughout the tragedy is his own jealousy of Cassio. This statement also foreshadows how jealousy will ultimately be the cause of the demise of many characters throughout the

The people of Pylos are one of the greatest examples of people who show hospitality in the book because they interrupt a royal wedding to provide for the stranger, they then prepare him a whole meal and allow the stranger to stay for as long as he would like. The cyclopes, Polyphemus, is an excellent example of a character who does not show hospitality because he threatens, and even eats, some of Odysseus’

Has chance worn out your youth or did some wicked sorrow consume you like food?” This line is in direct correlation with the previous passage where Gilgamesh says to himself “Will grief become your food?” which also correlates with the first passage discussed. Altogether, Gilgamesh gave in to “poisonous” desires, which cost him his “brother”, leaving light to evaporate and blackest of night. Light now evolves it’s meaning into happiness. Light dissolves, Gilgamesh’s happiness has dissolved and he is consumed by darkness, his sadness and pain. Grief does become Gilgamesh’s food and the girl notices this right away.

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Repeatedly throughout the beginning of part two, Pi uses several negative connotations to describe the hyena. He calls it “ugly beyond redemption (Martel 248)” before going on to explain the animal’s typical traits. Pi narrates that “cannibalism is a common occurrence during the excitement of feeding [in hyenas]…it feels no disgust at this mistake. Hyenas will snack on the excrement of herbivores with clucks of pleasure…It’s an open question as to what hyenas won’t eat (Martel 250-251).” These distasteful traits are similar to the chef’s own. In the story without the animals, Pi tells of an incident on the lifeboat; “he ate flies.

Buckley calls Bigger a “maddened ape” (376) and thus rips away the meager remains of Bigger’s humanity. Eager to blind the jury, Buckley denies Bigger’s humanity. No longer does the jury see a man’s life at stake, but an animal 's. Furthermore, Buckley shows the jury Bigger’s animalistic nature through the biblical allusion to the snake in the Garden of Eden. Stating that everyone should “crush with [their] heel the wooly head of [the] black lizard”(373), Buckley draws comparisons between Bigger and a snake--the physical embodiment of evil.

The coldness caused trench foot to run fungal infections which bred in the gunge. The crammed full pools of feces and urine caused the whole place to reek of a sent that stained your sense of smell. Rats fed on anything, up and including dead or alive bodies, eating men 's food and personal belongings. But worst of all, they sometimes grew to the size of a cat feasting off of the plentiful corpses that lay around. The constant sound of shooting guns and cannon fire would ring in your ear, as you can hear excruciating shouting of wounded and hurt soldiers or the undaunted attackers sometimes cheering or often laughing diverged into a background haze.

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