Mrs Schranz The Witch Circe 911 Aeolus the wind King captures the wind in a bullshide bag for safe travels twice After Odysseus and crew escape Polyphemus they land on his island Aeolia ID: 419123
Download Presentation The PPT/PDF document "Presentation prepared by" is the property of its rightful owner. Permission is granted to download and print the materials on this web site for personal, non-commercial use only, and to display it on your personal computer provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright notices contained in the materials. By downloading content from our website, you accept the terms of this agreement.
Slide1
Presentation prepared byMrs. Schranz
“The Witch Circe” (911) Slide2
Aeolus - the wind King captures the wind in a bull’s-hide bag for safe travels twice:
After Odysseus and crew escape
Polyphemus, they land on his island Aeolia.Odysseus’s men open bag thinking it contains treasure and release the evil winds and bring them back to Aeolia
Summary: Before the EpisodeSlide3
Complications and Loss:The Island of the
Laestrygonians
(giant cannibals) – all but one ship is destroyed and their crews eaten by the cannibalsOdysseus’s ship and crew end up on the island of Aeaea – the Witch Circe’s home23 men – led by
Eurylochus- go to explore the island
Summary: Before the Episode (cont.)Slide4
The Witch Circe: Summary of the Episode
Circe appears as a beautiful woman weaving and singing who greets them at her gate
All men, but
Eurylochus
, go in after Circe and eat and drink the cheese and wine she offers them.She turns the men into pigs and holds them captiveSlide5
Odysseus goes to Circe’s hall to save his menHermes gives Odysseus a plant to resist Circe’s sorcery
Circe releases Odysseus’s men but persuades Odysseus to stay (like Calypso) and heals his heart
After awhile, they want to continue on homeCirce says she will help them but only if Odysseus alone descends into The Land of the Dead to seek the prophet Teiresias
The Witch Circe:
Summary of the Episode (cont.)Slide6
Lesson: The episodes with King Aeolus and Circe both warn against greed, excess, and overindulgence.Slide7
Epic conventionsSupernatural helpers: Aeolus and HermesTrials: Storm winds, crew’s stupidity, Circe, The Land of the Dead
Foreshadowing
There are wild animals (wolves and lions) that greet the men tamely “like hounds” on Circe’s islandEurylochus “feared a snare”Further trials await him in The Land of the Dead
Literary Elements and DevicesSlide8
Spirited Away– In this film
, a
young girl named Chihiro and her parents are moving. On their journey to their new home, they stumble across a tunnel that leads to the spirit world. However, Chihiro’s parents, believing the world to be an abandoned amusement park, sit down at one of the abandoned food booths and begin pigging-out on the food there. As a punishment, they are turned into pigs. Now,
Chihiro must give herself over the spirit world in order to save herself and her parents.
Contemporary Connections