10.6-8: so much Greek incest. gross.
10.39-50: Why do you think Odysseus' crew decides to be mutinous? They're all with him during the Cyclops bit, but then they get all foul-tempered later. It's probably because they're sick of all this nonsense, but how else are they going to get home? And, besides, if he's so great, why can't they just trust him? Everyone else he meets absolutely loves him (except Polyphemous). Anyway, because of them, Odysseus (and his crew) gets screwed over again. And because of them, when they go back to Aeolus, he says the gods hate them and so does he. Good going, guys.
171-179: How James Potter really died.
255: It's a trap!
10. 305-334: CRITICISM: If Hermes looks like a young boy with his first beard, how does Odysseus know it's the god? This is a first person story.
352: aswirl with evil.
So there was all this adultery and I wrote about it, but whatever, we know it's wrong but it's different there. BUT if you think your spouse died, and then you go and get remarried, and then your spouse comes back ALIVE, what is the deal? Are you really married to that other person? Are you still married to the first one? Are you married to ANYONE?
Then I was confused about Circe's motivation. She changes them back from pigs and OP invites them to stay for a year. So does she hate people, or like to serve them?
Homer is so funny: "Once I'd had my fill of tears and writhing there..." (549).
HERE. Before you said anything, I wrote that it was good that Homer began the story with Athena and Telemachus and Penelope, or else I'd be confused and annoyed. Frankenstein does this, too. He starts kind of at the end and then you meet the 'hero' (who is lame) and then you wrap around the beginning and back to where you started.
613-617: a warning to not ever get drunk on a roof.
I also noted poor communication skills going on from about 600-622.
The crew says, "Let's go home!"
Odysseus answers, "Okay! brb let me talk to Circe." He does. "Let's leave now."
"Yay!"
"Psych! We're going to the Underworld."
Tears ensue.
First off: Aeaea. haha!
ReplyDeleteMutiny) They're story elements, and idiots. If there wasn't a mutinous crew, there might not be that plot event. Also, people are idiots. Look at how often the Israelites are mutinous. And God did WAY more for His people than Odysseus.
Death+Marriage) Didn't the Pharisees ask about this? Answer: Who knows!?! I think that the other person has to be declared legally dead in order to get remarried. At their legal death, your marriage legally ends. So even if the person shows up, they were legally dead, and the marriage ended. And that person isn't alive, they're still dead. Legally.
I dunno what happens in real life. Mormons, probably.
Starting "In Medius Res" ) Starting in the middle of things is a classical storytelling method. It works. You know you like it. You're not really confused, because now you have a good sense of what's going on in the story, from all angles (of time). Timey-wimey angles. If your story is just a straight line, you only get one way of looking at things. This way, you get to look at these events from the past, from the future, and from the present.
That's WAY more like real life human experience. Think of last christmas. You remember it now (memory/past). Last year you were looking FORWARD to it (future/anticipation/unknown), and on the days of, you were experiencing it directly (present). All three of those went into your actual human experience of how you lived that christmas. And if you could tell a story about it, you would want to tell a realistic story that makes sense the same way we, as human beings, make sense of things.
Timey-wimey wibbledy-wobbledy.
Underworld) Didn't they HAVE to go to the underworld in order to leave the island of Circe? That's why the crew doesn't freak out.