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Is odysseus and cyclops character foils?

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The Odyssey, which usually privileges the perspective of Odysseus, uses foils primarily to demonstrate the ways in which he is exceptional: his physical superiority to the Phaea cians and to the suitors, for example, or his superiority in cunning to the Cyclops.

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