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Chapter 10 Outline. By Sydney Carlson, Hannah I and Rachel YD. Odysseus. Key Events. Odysseus stays on Aeolus’s island After staying on his island for a month, Odysseus tells him he must be on his way Aeolus gives him a bag of wind
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Chapter 10 Outline By Sydney Carlson, Hannah I and Rachel YD Odysseus
Key Events • Odysseus stays on Aeolus’s island • After staying on his island for a month, Odysseus tells him he must be on his way • Aeolus gives him a bag of wind • Once O. and his crew can see Ithaca, he falls asleep and his mutinous crew opens the bag of wind, blowing them back to Aeolus’s island • Aeolus bans O. from his island, saying this proves that the immortals hate him • Odysseus and his crew arrive in Laestrygonian land • Odysseus sends some of his crew to scout around • The royal family eats the crew because it turns out they’re cannibals • All but Odysseus ship sinks
Key Events • Odysseus and his crew reach the Aeaean island, home of Circe • Odysseus sends some of his crew to look around, and they get turned into pigs • Hermes tells Odysseus how to get his crew turned human again • O. succeeds and gets Circe to promise to help him return home • She invites his crew to stay at her house for a while • One year later, they’re still there • They finally realize they need to go home, and Circe promises to help them only after they go to the underworld • After receiving instructions, they set sail
Significant Character in Chapter 10 • Circe • nymph with lovely braids • helped Odysseus after tricking his shipmates, and told them to go to hell • magical nymph
Odysseus Character • “so I pleaded-gentle, humble, appeals-” p. 232 line 76 this shows that he is capable of being humble • 2. “ but I, I drew my sharp sword sheathed at my hip and rushed her fast as if to run her through-” this shows that he is very brave even in the face of something powerful and something he doesn’t understand like magic • 3. “ so I said, and it broke my shipmates’ hearts.” This shows that he has power and can make his decide things over many people. He can even make decisions that will make grown men cry
The Monomyth Odysseus is going through many trials and tests while trying to return home. his encounter with Circe is a big trial: he has to stay a man and also get aid in order to return home. this chapter also points to the next test where he has to go to Hell.
Discussion Questions • Why is there so much incest in this book? Keeping the family name is important, but why the inbreeding between brothers and sisters? • 2. Is there a pattern with the epithets and the goddesses? • 3. Why does Odysseus send his crew ahead when he is the leader? Is he a coward? Why is he acting like Telemachus?
Extra Credit Epithets or Similes Hotheaded Odysseus page 244 line 481 “ As calves in stalls when cows come home, droves of them herded back from field to farmyard once they’ve grazed their fill-as all their young claves come frisking out to meet them, bucking out of their pens, lowing nonstop, jostling, rushing round their mothers-” page 243 line 453 The book compares Odysseus and his shipmates to young cows, which while fitting is somewhat insulting Comparison/Contrast and Greek Culture And Extra Credit Question In Arabian Nights and in this chapter the lovers spend a lot of time draping the chairs, and washing their hands. This seems that it may have been a tradition a long time ago, and was definitely very important to spend so much time describing. Why do you think that was “…once she’d draped the chairs with fine crimson covers…” page 241 line 391
