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?