It basically is saying that the person or the main character in the story has a goal to achieve to get somewhere or find and they got no time to take a risk out of there life to ruin that goal
Circe is jealous that Odysseus is leaving her for a mortal and would rather keep him stuck on the island out of spite.
<span>The central conflict of Hamlet consists in two parts: The External Conflict between Hamlet and Claudius, and Hamlet's Internal conflict over whether he should take revenge on Claudius. The resolution of the External conflict occurs when Hamlet kills Claudius. :)</span>
The main idea of this paragraph is 'A PRISON TAINT WAS ON EVERYTHING THERE'.
The main idea of a paragraph is also called the topic idea of that paragraph. The main idea of a paragraph is usually the most important sentence in the paragraph and all other sentences in the paragraph serve to support it.
Topic idea of a paragraph are usually the opening sentence in the paragraph.
In the passage given above, you can see that the main idea of the paragraph is the prison taint that affects everything that is found in the prison environment, all other sentences in the paragraph build on this main idea.<span />