ith the fear and pressure of death closing in on Odysseus and his men, Odysseus comes up with a brilliant revenge plot. First Odysseus tells the Cyclops that his name is Noman, and then he gets the Cyclops drunk off wine to make him fall asleep. Once asleep, the men have already prepared a large sharp stick in which they stick into the Cyclops eye. The puncture blinds him, and now they have him right where they want him. Now here is where we began to see how cunning Odysseus really is. While the Cyclops is screaming from the pain of his eye, his fellow Cyclopes come to see what is going on. They ask him Polyphemus, why are you hollering so muchIs some man stealing your flocks from you, or killing you, maybe, by some kind of trick? (9.402-405), and the Cyclops answers by saying Noman is killing me by some kind of trick (9.406). So the Cyclops can not getting any help. The last phase in this plot for revenge is to escape. Odysseus and his men wait until morning to escape because they know that the Cyclops will have to let his animals out to eat. During the night the crew bound sheeps in sets of threes. When morning came, the Cyclops opened the door and each man Zulu 3escaped by hiding under the middle sheep, except for Odysseus, who hid under the Cyclopss prize ram. In my opinion, based on Aristotles rules of revenge, Odysseus could have been seeking revenge on his own behalf because if he could not escape then he too would have been eaten. But based purely on the facts, he was really getting revenge for his men that had already been eaten. By avenging the Cyclops, Odysseus was not taking revenge on some one of his own class. The Cyclops was not even human, and he surely was not in the same group or social class as Odysseus. The Cyclops did try to cause intentional harm, injury, and shame to Odysseus and his men in which he was not sorry for. By overcoming and defeating the Cyclops, Odysseus was able to restore is honor ...
