Cinderella In The Odyssey
Everyone knows and loves the fairytale “Cinderella” where Cinderella starts out as a maid, wearing nothing but rags, and doing nothing but chores. She desires to go to this ball, but her nasty stepmother sends her to work right away, without allowing her to go. Fortunately for Cinderella, her fairy Godmother transforms her into a beautiful princess and lets her go to the ball, where she meets the price of her dreams. He is astonished by her beauty and in the end of the fairytale they fall in love. Everyone is fascinated by Cinderella’s story but one may not realize who is truly the reason for Cinderella’s good fortune. Without the help of her fairy godmother ensuring that everything worked out for Cinderella in the end, she never would have
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This is an important step to getting Odysseus home because without Athena giving him freedom, he never would have escaped and been able to resume his journey home. It is clear that if Zeus had not sent Hermes to deliver the message of Odysseus’ new freedom to Calypso, she never would have let Odysseus vacate her island. He had been on the island for seven years, pleading for her to enable him the right to go home, yet she denied him each time. She even had a difficult time listening to Hermes, and she begged for him to allow her to keep Odysseus captive. On page 156, When Hermes announced Zeus’ decree to her she was very outraged: “Lustrous Calypso shuddered at those words and burst into a flight of indignation. ‘Hard-hearted you are, you gods! You unrivaled lords of jealousy.’” Calypso’s words demonstrate that she was very desperate to keep Odysseus for herself because she burst out with fury towards a god, and even openly disagreed with their opinions, which is not very acceptable in Ancient Greece. This also proves that Calypso never would have let Odysseus go without Athena’s assist, and Odysseus would be stuck on Calypso’s island with no way to get home. Another reason why Athena’s help getting Odysseus off Calypso’s island is so meaningful to Odysseus’ convenient
This is an important step to getting Odysseus home because without Athena giving him freedom, he never would have escaped and been able to resume his journey home. It is clear that if Zeus had not sent Hermes to deliver the message of Odysseus’ new freedom to Calypso, she never would have let Odysseus vacate her island. He had been on the island for seven years, pleading for her to enable him the right to go home, yet she denied him each time. She even had a difficult time listening to Hermes, and she begged for him to allow her to keep Odysseus captive. On page 156, When Hermes announced Zeus’ decree to her she was very outraged: “Lustrous Calypso shuddered at those words and burst into a flight of indignation. ‘Hard-hearted you are, you gods! You unrivaled lords of jealousy.’” Calypso’s words demonstrate that she was very desperate to keep Odysseus for herself because she burst out with fury towards a god, and even openly disagreed with their opinions, which is not very acceptable in Ancient Greece. This also proves that Calypso never would have let Odysseus go without Athena’s assist, and Odysseus would be stuck on Calypso’s island with no way to get home. Another reason why Athena’s help getting Odysseus off Calypso’s island is so meaningful to Odysseus’ convenient