How does homer use suspense to make the story of the ‘Odyssey’ more :: Classics

How vigors bulls eye use suspense to organise the story of the Odyssey moreexciting in books 13 to 21?To create suspense and tension in the story, kor uses the aspect ofdisguise. When Odysseus lands upon the Ireland of Ithika, Athene giveshim a disguise so that he will not be recognise by the suitors andkilled. The first person he sees when he is on the island is aherdsman of sheep. Who is in reality Athene she is in disguise,Odysseus, thinking she is a herdsman lies to her about whom he is, I postulate fled, an exile, because I have killed the son of Idomeneus. Hislie continued and although he lie about who he was it did have sometruth in it, for spokesperson he says he went to Troy as a henchman, he did rattling go to Troy so hes not hypocrisy but he was a hero rather thanjust a henchman.the goddess grey-eyed Athene, smiled on him and stroked him with herhand.Athene is please that he lied she feels he showed metis and thatit was the good thing to do. yet you never recognize d Pallas Athene,daughter of Zeus, the iodine who is always standing beside you. Shereveals herself to him she gives him a disguise and advice, and thenext person he meets is Eumaois the swine heard. There is a lotwritten about Odysseus and the swine heard I feel that Homer wasdigressing and intentionally delays Odysseus going home to createtension.Odysseus tells another(prenominal) lie, again to create the tension I announcemy origin is from Crete, a spacious land. He does this using metisand to protect himself as he send wordt allow anyone to find out whom hereally is. The swineheard knows he is lying nor spell me with yourlies. This again makes the reader feel anxiety, in bailiwick he knows whomOdysseus really is.Homer keeps emphasising in the disguise, beggar is better mendicancy hisdinner in the city. He is referred to as a beggar to really emphasisto the audience that, that is what he comes across as.Another thing that helps gird up the tension is of Penelope weaving,as w hen she finishes she has to marry one of the suitors. academic termback on a chair and turning yarn on a distaff. Things like this willappear in the text to make the reader nervous, about the time Odysseusis taking to kill the suitors the delaying helps keep the tension.The doe has brought her fawns to the lair of a lion.