Circe’s story has a big theme of loneliness throughout that cause many problems for her, first she is lonely in her home with her siblings constantly mocking her and she doesn’t experience family love. This is the first thing that becomes stacked against her in life because while she is in a place with other people, she doesn’t get to experience the love that helps shape people in their childhood causing her later on to attempt to hold on to any affection that she can get even with disastrous consequences for herself and those around her. The first being when she finds a young mortal that she quickly finds herself falling in love with, and thus begins to search for a way for her to be able to have him forever by turning him into a god, this turns against her when after she turns him into a god, he leaves her for another nymph. She attempts then to get this other nymph out of the way because she finally has one thing for herself that makes her feel less alone, only to have these consequences be shown because she turned the nymph into a monster that feeds on human flesh. Her need to have a companion so she is not lonely not only hurts this other nymph but then herself because she is then banished and exiled to the lonely island of Aiaia. Over time she meets many heroes and of course the dear Odysseus though he leaves her in the end she ends up having a child, and this child almost ends up being the answer to all her problems of loneliness throughout her life because she has not only a companion, but someone now how depends on her that makes her have to think about not only what she wants but the needs of others. The child ends up being her redemption arc of becoming this powerful being not chained to the will gods but a mother and a witch in her own right.
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