This week I will be blogging about a subject that really interested me in the Oddysey that I never got to write about before. That subject is the little blocks of italic text sprinkled throughout the book.
I didn't think much of these through most of the Oddysey, but when they became particularly prevalent in the last few books, I decided I'd like to look into them all a little more closely and figure out why they were there. What I noticed is this: all of them seemed to be similes or metaphors comparing the story's characters and their recent or current actions to other things. More specifically, though, they seemed to always be compared to animals, and always either a predator or a prey. In the case that characters did particularly noble, brave, or heroic things, they would almost always be compared to a predator chasing, killing, or gloating over its prey. On the other hand, if they were doing something cowardly or being killed, they were compared to prey being hunted, or in some cases herd animals being slaughtered.
I thought these little interjections made the story more interesting overall, and analyzing was overall very fun to do. That's all for this week.
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