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World Literature Essay The Power of Cunning over Physical Strength Kirtinder Bindra English, ENG 3U8 - A Word Count: Ms. Kowalska December 12th, 2006 Strong men have always been admired for their physical abilities while intelligent individuals have always been well-respected and called upon for advice. Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Homer explore the power that intelligence has over physical ability in their books One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Odyssey. In fact, if Odysseus and Shukov had not been intelligent, clever men, Odysseus would have surely died during his travels and Shukov would have died a prisoner's death in the Soviet penal camps. The protagonists of the two works would not have succeeded in their main objectives had it not been for their cleverness, which turns out to be more useful than their physical strength. Such cleverness, as the protagonists of the books possess, is in truth both a virtue and a...

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