Night Vs Odyssey

Each work of literature that has ever been written has had one universal purpose: to tell a story. Each character is unique to the development of a story and such a justification holds serve with Homer’s The Odyssey and Tale of a Thousand and One Nights. Each respective novel has a narrator that serves as cadence to the plot of the lives of the characters, which provides insight to how and why things happen throughout the course of the novel. Homer highlights the typical Greek tragedy through Odysseus’s experiences from traveling the sea, deciding to save his men or himself to get home, and determining who to confide his trust in. William Harvey highlights proving that all women aren’t evil and betraying.
The Odyssey is one of the most recognized works of ancient literature. It’s a story about a man and his voyage home from a war. …show more content…
He tells his man to wait and to not to eat the fruit of the lotus, after the natives give his men the fruit. Odysseus refuses to eat the fruit while his men indulge in consuming the fruit that makes his men intoxicated and they lose all thoughts of where there’re from and they just continue in eating more. He can’t lead them home and can barely get his crew on their ships. The only way he gets his crew out the island is by dragging his men back to the ship and locking them up until he can get them out the island. His men sail finally through the dark night and encounter the race of the one-eyed giants, where they almost eat his men, while on their way passing the island of Cyclopes. Only with Odysseus intelligence they escape. He later encounters Circe, the beautiful witch goddess at the land of Aeaea. Circe later turns a group of his men into pigs by drugging them. Hermes talks to Odysseus and tells him to eat a herd called moly to protect himself from Circes drug and then lunge at her when she tries to hit him with her sword. Hermes plan works out