Read the excerpt from Part 1 of The Odyssey. Now Zeus the lord of cloud roused in the north A storm against the ships, and driving veils of squall moved down like night on land and sea. The bows went plunging at the gust; sails cracked and lashed out strips in the big wind. We saw death in that fury, dropped the yards, unshipped the oars, and pulled for the nearest lee: then two long days and nights we lay offshore. What theme is best revealed by this conflict?