What does Odysseus think of the way the cyclopes live?

Question

Homer the Odysseus

Answer 1

Well, I'll tell you, and you DEFINITELY didn't hear this from me, but Odysseus is totally pissed off! I mean, what with the cyclops refusing to wash ANY of his own dishes, or help out with the cleaning in any way, shape or form. I would be angry too!

Answer 2

I think most people miss the point of the story. The Cyclops represents a life of anarchy for there are no laws or customs in their daily life. Odysseus teaches us that such a life among the Cyclops is base, vulgar, beneathe man, and devestating. Hence the blindness of the Cyclops. In fact, the story is Homer's statment on the condition of the Greek City States. He is teaching that man must have laws and order to function in harmony. To abolish these is to desire chaos.
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Answer 3

oddyseus actually liked the way the cyclops lived and would have stayed on the island with him, but for the fact that he was committed to his men and his mission. cyclops however had different ideas. he did not want oddyseus to stay there. he was hostile toward the men on the ship and felt threatened by their presence.
it is reported that about twenty years later, oddyseus sailed back to the island of the cyclops in search of the man whom he blinded,and was caught in a storm and shipwrecked just off the coast of the island and was rescued by the one-eyed monster who recognized his voice and saved him for revenge, intending to make him his slave.
however, they struck up a friendship and oddyseus lived there as his voluntary servant for the rest of his days. oddyseus never saw his family again , but was content to live with cyclops until they were both killed in old age by the eruption of a volcano.

Answer 4

He certainly thinks of them as debased primitives ... cave-dwelling sheep-herders without even the wit to make wine!
He also takes advantage of their ignorance and aggression, telling Polyphemus that his name is "Noman" so old P's brothers will think he's gone crackers.
Pretty clever, really, but then that's why Odysseus was drafted.

Answer 5

They are obviously barbarians. Instead of welcoming him and his men, they are imprisoned by him. They also live in caves and are primitive compared to the Greeks.