Final+Product-Circe

**Summary**
Odysseus and his men land on an island after Aeolus gave Odysseus the bag of winds. His men are hungry and decide to go hunting for game on this strange island. After a few hours only one of the men return carrying with him a story about how a godess in a stone building has turned the men animals. The men see a pig and because they are starving they start chasing the pig. The man that had returned started yelling, "Stop that is one of my brothers! It is not just a pig!" Most of the men ignore him and keep chasing the pig but Odysseus stops the men from chasing the pig and he asks his brother where the stone house is. When he starts the walk to the stone house he meets Hermes who tells him to eat a certian type of grass so that the sorceress in side could not do anything to him and when her spell failed he should put his sword to her throat and demand his men back or else he would kill her. She turned his men back into humans and then asked if he would like to take her to bed. Of course Odysseus does and he thinks he is only at her house for 5 days but she tells him it has really been 5 years. He runs out to his boat and sees that his boat is burried in a lot of rocks and dirt. then he runs back to the house and threatens her to tell him how to get back home. She tells him he will have to go to Hades and ask Teiresias how the best way to get home was. His men helped him dig the boat out and then they all left the island.

**Analyses**
The significance of this part of story is that Odysseus lets go of some of his pride. He lets go of his pride by trusting Hermes and eating the grass. He also slept with Circe to save his men, but was still thinking of his wife as he was with her. This shows that he cares about his men by sleeping with Circe, but doing that he still thinks of his wife.

**Women As Temptress**
In the Hero's Quests, the hero will meet goddess or woman, but before he can go further he must not be tempted by her. In this part of the story the hero tries to resist the temptation of the woman. However, the goddess may also slow down the heros progress. This will distract the hero from his goal and put him back into a bad position.Circe makes Odysseus go to bed with her and since she is a woman he is attracted to her and is tempted to stay longer. Of course he stays longer and he doesn't end up getting out of bed. She is tempting him enough that he stays even though he is free to go. He threatend her for his men but then he stayed anyway. She tempted him so he stayed even though he had no wish to before she tempted him. The Woman as Temptress really just distracts the hero from his journey.