Her interference extends to calming the princess directly, i.e. Is this a lesson in humility Athena wants to instill in our hero, a test of his fidelity to Penelope, or just messing around with people for the goddess' entertainment? Her set-up is clear when she put him to sleep in the brush, then shamed Nausicaa into doing laundry at their typical site.Īs a stage director for the human comedy, she can't be content with just winding her characters up. I’m wondering if the metaphor isn’t just to amp up the humor of the scene, of a dirty naked man having to use words to prove his respectability. Just as a mountain lion trusts its strength, and beaten by the rain and wind, its eye/ burn bright as it attacks the cows or sheep,/ or wild deer, and hunger drives it on …so need/ impelled Odysseus to come upon/ the girls with pretty hair, though he was naked. In the scene where Odysseus wakes up in a brush hollow by the river and has to talk Nausicaa into helping him we get this: There is one here that is kind of complex and hard to grasp on it's slant. I complained about the limited use of metaphors and similes in the first chapters, but more and more turn up to jazz up our imaginations.
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