Question

Which plant makes the sailors forget their desire to return home?

A) Lotus
B) Poppy
C) Lethe-root
D) Hemlock

Answer 1

The Lotus Flower

Step-by-step explanation:

The great danger of the lotus fruit then is not physical death, as is the case with Polyphemus the Cyclops, the Laistrygonians, or Scylla and Charybdis, but spiritual death, which for the Homeric Greeks would have corresponded to the loss of one's “Thumos,” or spiritedness. The lotus fruits and flowers were the primary food of the island and were a narcotic, causing the inhabitants to sleep in peaceful apathy, forgetting their home and loved ones and long only to stay with their fellow lotus-eaters.

Answer 2

The plant in question is the Lotus(a), from the mythological story of The Odyssey, which caused sailors who ate it to forget their homes.

Step-by-step explanation:

The plant that makes sailors forget their desire to return home is the Lotus(a). This reference comes from the mythological story known as The Odyssey, where sailors who consumed the lotus plant lost their wish to return home. The lotus plant's effect is perhaps a metaphor for escapism and the allure of abandoning one's duties and responsibilities, captured poetically in literature and myth.