Question

The Odyssey: Conflict and Theme, Part 4
Assignment Active
Connecting Conflict and Theme
Select the best choice from each drop-down menu.
What is the conflict in this passage?
What theme is best shown by the conflict?
There, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow
tossed me, and I sprang for the great fig tree,
catching on like a bat under a bough.
Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing,
the root and bole being far below, and far
above my head the branches and their leaves,
massed, overshadowing Charybdis pool.
But I clung grimly, thinking my mast and keel
would come back to the surface when she spouted.
And ah! how long, with what desire, I waited!
till, at the twilight hour, when one who hears
and judges pleas in the marketplace all day
between contentious men, goes home to supper,
the long poles at last reared from the sea.
- The Odyssey
Intro
Done
5 of R

Answer 1

Answer:

Odyssey vs nature

Explanation:

The conflict in this passage is actually "Odyssey vs nature".

This is true because from the passage, we discover that  he was tossed by a billow (from sea) and he sprang for the great fig tree. These are natural forces (billow and tree) conflicting against Odyssey. These forces were opposing Odyssey.

In literature, conflict is a literary device  which is employed to show the struggle that goes on between two opposing forces.

In this passage, the conflict ongoing is that of man vs. nature i.e Odyssey vs. nature.