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In three pages this paper analyzes the visual text of a Cyclops as conceptualized by animator Ray Harryhausen and described by Homer in Book IX of “The Odyssey.” The writer’s personal response to this visual text includes the relationship between the visual text and its subject matter, assesses how different textual elements either work together or against each other, and what cultural assumptions are reflected in the visual text. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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featured in a classical Greek poem believed to have been written about 800 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, has played an instrumental role in conjuring mental pictures of
what frightening, menacing creatures should look like. In the Samuel Butler translation of "The Odyssey," this quintessential Cyclops is portrayed as "a huge monster... a horrid creature, not like
a human being at all, but resembling rather some crag that stands out boldly against the sky on the top of a high mountain" (Homer). This undoubtedly influenced animator
Ray Harryhausens perceptions of a Cyclops as visually represented in his 1958 classic film, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. His visual text looks like a deformed monster whose upper
body could have actually been carved from a mountain. This creature is huge and truly grotesque, featuring the one eye that defines the Cyclops. The images that are most
prominent in this visual text - beyond the massive size of the Cyclops - are the protruding horn from the creatures forehead (which is not mentioned in Homers epic), claws,
and his body, which resembles half-man and half-animal. The sharp-tipped horn and claws visually emphasize that the Cyclops had other weapons at his disposal beyond his huge physical size.
It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce or rip apart flesh at will. Harryhausens visual text marries well with the
subject matter, for this Cyclops looks more than capable of performing the heinous deed witnessed by Ulysses (Odysseus) and his men: "With a sudden clutch he gripped up two
of my men at once and dashed them down upon the ground as though they had been puppies. Their brains were shed upon the ground, and the earth was
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