Penelope And The Suitors Analysis

For a long time historical pieces have been used through paintings and poems such as Penelope of the Odyssey, The tale of Penelope is about a brief time when she is longing for her husband to come back one day. When Odysseus was gone for the Trojan War for a long time, she had hope that her husband will come back one day. Penelope represented hope as one of the most hopeful women in form of themes that comes from many epic works on her. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors, John Williams Waterhouse uses the Suitors of Penelope to show that when people are gone for a long time their loved ones still have hope they will come home and the loved ones will be there waiting for them, while in her poem “Penelope,” Dorothy Parker uses the same scene to show that people long for their
Penelope is making a cloth for her father in law, and suitors of all cities near Ithaca wanted to marry her. Penelope is smart and feels miserable without her husband, she is smart by using smart tactics to push back her announcement of marrying one of the suitors, and she feels miserable because she has not seen her husband in a long time. The mood can be described as the center of attention and beautiful, these tell that men are savages when it comes they only want to marry someone who is in grief and take their belongings (Analysis). The painting shows how Penelope is not paying attention to anybody because she does not care of anybody there and she wants Odysseus to come home (Analysis). The painting also shows how Penelope is loyal to Odysseus by not marrying any of the suitors and waiting for him to come home (Analysis). John is portraying that Penelope is the center of attention of the painting by, she is the the main character in the painting from his point of view