The cyclops comes home to find Odysseus and his men waiting for his return. Although the crew members had begged Odysseus to allow them steal what food they could and run back to the safety of their ship, Odysseus insisted they stay and wait for the cyclops in hopes that they would be shown hospitality. Instead of displaying a feeling of comfort and safety to his company, the cyclops became angered by his guests and “caught two [men] in his hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, splattering the floor. Then he dismembered them and made his meal.” (Homer, page 1216, lines 192-195). Provoked by this, Odysseus becomes enraged due to the fact that he was already low on crew members and could not afford to lose any more men at the hands of Polyphemus. In an endeavor to escape the home of the cyclops, Odysseus and his men devised an elaborate ruse in which they planned to get Polyphemus drunk and use a scalding hot stake to cauterize the cyclop’s eye as he slept. The plan was successful allowing Odysseus and the remainder of his crew to escape the cyclops. This proved that when neglecting to show hospitality, one should assume the consequences will be