Question

Which lines from the reading best show the Cyclops to be an antagonist?

A. Come, / let me tell you about the voyage fraught with hardship.
B. I am Odysseus, son of Laertes, known to the world / for every kind
of craft - my fame has reached the sky.
C. When the sun had set and the night came on / we lay down and
slept at the water's shelving edge.
D. So, Cyclops, no weak coward it was whose crew / you bent to
devour there in your vaulted cave.​

Answer 1

The correct answer is D.

Step-by-step explanation:

These lines best show the Cyclops Polyphemus as an antagonist because they tells the reader that the monster ate Odysseus' companions.

And not only did he eat the men, but he ate them in his own cave, where he should have treated them with hospitality, making the Cyclops even worse in the eyes of the Greeks.