The Odyssey: Central Ideas and Character Motivation, Part 2
Question 5 • MO-English Language Arts 9 A-CR
What motivates Cyclops to ask Poseidon to interfere with Odysseus’s journey home?
Answer
Answer:
The Cyclops is motivated by anger and a desire for revenge after Odysseus blinded and humiliated him. Since Poseidon is his father, he asks him to interfere with Odysseus’s journey home.