Read the excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey.
(Odysseus):
'We would entreat you, great Sir, have a care
for the gods' courtesy; Zeus will avenge
the unoffending guest.'
He answered this
from his brute chest, unmoved.
(Cyclops):
'You are a ninny,
or else you come from the other end of nowhere,
telling me, mind the gods! We Cyclopes
care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus.'
What theme is best revealed by this conflict?