The Inacurate Representation of the Cyclops

Cyclopes are members of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of its forehead; they are mainly seen in Greek mythology. Whenever people hear the word “Cyclops,” it is always associated with humongous 20-foot tall cannibal with a big stick roaming the forest and mountains. However, Cyclopes are one of the oldest Greek mythological creatures; they are children of gods and nature spirits who came out wrong. Poseidon was the most common father. Hesiod was one of the first Greek scholars to describe them as three brothers who were primordial giants. Today Cyclopes the media perceptions of Cyclopes has not changed. They are still viewed as rugged human-like monsters with one eye in the middle of their head. Cyclopes are the least favorite of Greek mythological creatures; they are seen as brute, vile, and disgusting creatures with a thirst for blood. Even though Cyclopes are mythological creatures, they make us question our existence because they are so similar to us. They make us question whether we share an ancestral trait or if we will one day turn into them. Cyclopes are gigantic one-eye monsters that live a lawless life in the middle of the forest or in the mountains; they possess no social manner or fear of gods. They work for Hephaestus in the heart of volcanic mountain Aetna. Society perceives Cyclopes as monsters because of the way they are portrayed in films and books.

Hollywood depicts Cyclopes to be giant beasts incapable of love and emotion or have any social etiquette. Their only role in civilization is to be savages. In today’s media, every monster has evolved into a loveable character. Count Dracula in Hotel Transylvania strayed away from his usual path of a vicious vampire to being a single d...

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...ever changes from the barbaric brutes, whose hell bent on destroying everyone and everything it its path. Hollywood now give Cyclops the Tornado effect they wreck everything in their path just for the fun of it. Another similarity is they give a powerful visual representation of Cyclops. For example, the height of the Cyclops tends to be the same in all three media. Furthermore, the appearance of the Cyclops in The Odyssey and Wrath of the Titians is very similar because they are all very ugly creatures and that does not help that they are portrayed as monsters. The three different media that I picked have no bearing on how people view Cyclopes, because the monsters weren’t given enough screen time, and when they got time on screen their battled weren’t memorable, because they were easily outsmarted and defeated even though they are bigger and have the advantage.