The writing assignment focuses on Book XI of The Odyssey. Your paper is to describe six characters Ulysses encounters in the Underworld. Include background on each character, one or more quotes, comment on why they died and their attitude toward their existence in the Underworld. I have highlighted many characters in the text.
The structure of the paper is to write about one charactrer after another in paragraph format.
This amounts to eight paragraphs,including the intro and conclusion.
Here are some of the characters he meets:
Tiresias
Elpenor
His mother Anticlea
Achilles
Jocasta
Cassandra
Cytemnestra
Sisyphus
Tantalus
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