Passage Analysis
Betrayal, suspense, passion, and outright bloody murder are such elements in an epic. Homer's The Odyssey weaves these elements into a wonderful story about Odysseus " the man of twists and turns" and his harrowing adventures. In Robert Fagles' translation of The Odyssey each passage of Homer's is made with a barrage of figurative language and is carefully structured and even can show somewhat of a theme. The passage of The Love of Ares and Aphrodite Crowned with Flowers on lines 320 to 363 gives the reader a glimpse of the life of the gods compared to mortals with an obvious emotion of passion from rage and love boiling from the depth of betrayal and lies.The story is riddled with figurative language such as imagery and epithets, and others. To describe the scene of Ares seducing Aphrodite the words " chafing with lust" and " grasped her hand with a warm, seductive urging"(6:327) are used. The words ""so he pressed and her heart raced with joy to sleep with War and off they went to bed and down they lay-" (6:330). Ares knows he wants Aphrodite and Homer made it clear. The trap is also "shown" with the use of imagery, "down around them came those cunning chains of the crafty god of fire, showering d
Ares strides in and takes what he came for. The suitors are also another example of crime and punishment. The epithets describe Hephaestus as "crippled", "lame", and "weakling" whereas Ares is described as "War", "stunning", and "devastating". They were killed after they were very disrespectful to the royal house of Ithaca. In Odysseus' and Homer's time mortals loved that genre of story and people today still do. There is also a repetition of the word no describing the capture "no way out, not now"(6:340) signaling the end of the affair. He beat the god of war when he was crippled and even in the case of gods there is still punishment for what was done. The affair of Ares and Aphrodite shows a situation of the gods which compares to the mortals situation and the passage also shows that much fervor is contained in it since it functions as a entertainment song. Unfortunately, he and Aphrodite are caught and Hephaestus cries to Zeus requesting his bride -gifts back in full. Whenever Ares is being described, words like "pressed" and "strode" are used and when Hephaestus is described he is given words such as "Master Craftsman" "cunning" and "spun" where spun refers to expertise. In the end of the passage Hephaestus gives a speech in outrage from the betrayal from his wife and sorrow for himself. There are also many comparisons between Ares and Hephaestus. own now till the couple could not move a limb or lift a finger.
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