Five Ways of Looking at The Penelopiad CORAL ANN HOWELLS As the lights go down in the great church of St James‚ Piccadilly‚ a voice speaks eerily out of the darkness somewhere off to the side: ‘Now that I’m dead I know everything.’1 And then a single spotlight reveals centre stage a small grey-haired female figure robed in black sitting on a throne; she begins to speak. This is Margaret Atwood‚ doubly imaged here in performance as Penelope‚ for I am describing a staged reading of part of The Penelopiad
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Odysseus uses his wisdom to demonstrate understanding of the soldiers’ plight‚ yet at the same time‚ remind them that they’ve put in so much time and that they need to have something to show for it! A successful‚ ideal warrior most definitely needs Odysseus’s wisdom on
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Many people have debated whether or not Odysseus was a hero. In The Odyssey of Homer‚ Odysseus faced many trials on his journey from Troy to Ithaca. He seemed to have the traits of a hero‚ but with a closer look‚ Odysseus actually caused most of the problems he himself faced. Had Odysseus traveled directly home after the Trojan War‚ all his trials could have been avoided‚ and he could have been welcomed home as a real hero. Odysseus was not a hero because he was not faithful to his wife‚ he was self-centered
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The Holy Bible King James Version‚Agamemnon by Aeschylus‚ and The Odyssey By Homer are all works that place an emphasis on the greatness of divine power. These works in emphasizing power all have several other components in common these include the benefits of godly favor‚the wrath of the gods‚ and their involvement in human affairs. The importance behind this that makes it all meaningful‚ is that these works are all written at separate times from each other. However‚ the message in these works despite
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Penelope shows her loyalty is no matter how the suitors courted her and wanted to marry her she never went with a suiter. Another reason is that she never completely gave up hope that her husband was alive. The final reason is that she defended Odysseus’s memory. In The Odyssey‚ Penelope showed her loyalty to her husband multiple times throughout the epic poem. No matter what the suitors did to win her over
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the island. When the sun started to set‚ heartbroken and devastated Circe went back to the warmth of her lair. But no amount of warmth in the air now mattered. No amount of warmth she felt now would be as comforting‚ as wonderful as the warmth of Odysseus’s body next to her‚ as warm as a fireplace on a cold snowy day as the wind howls outside and the trees tremble in fear of the mighty wrath that the god of wind‚ Aeolus has unleashed‚ as the land gets slowly covered in white and the beautiful‚ luscious
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crimes‚ lies‚ deceives‚ is in some sense immoral. Moses as an adolescent murdered an Egyptian who was pestering a Hebrew man (Exodus‚ 45) whereas‚ Odysseus betrays his faithful wife by having affairs with several women‚ such as Calypso and Circe. Odysseus’s crave for adventure and Moses’ violence show that both Hebrew culture and Greek culture are accepting of a tarnished hero only because their gods ordained it. The fact that the hero was an instrument of the gods was equally important to both cultures
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Odysseus on his journey back home to his family‚ through various trials and tribulations. Athena’s guidance can be seen when Odysseus is finally being allowed to leave Calypso’s island‚ which outraged Poseidon. Poseidon sends a great wave to wreck Odysseus’s ship and possibly drown him in the vast ocean but instead Athena helps him survive. “But Zeus’s daughter Athena countered him at once./ The rest of the winds she stopped right in their tracks‚/commanding them all to hush now‚ go to sleep./ All but
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island was one that he used when he got back home. Part of his journey was seeing the blind prophet Tiresias and listening to his instructions. This skill of listening was used when he got back home to find his house filled with suitors. Part of Odysseus’s instructions was to make the men atone in blood which he did after he devised a well thought out plan‚ something that he learned after the trial with the cyclops. His journey shaped him‚ his journey made him a better leader‚ and his journey helped
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In the journey‚ the importance of the hero’s traits will be measure to Odysseus’s success. Odysseus needs to have the courage‚intelligence‚ and kindness to survive this adventure‚he must go to the depths of hell just to return home. Odysseus has been a hero in the story making him a strong willed character with the intelligence and courage to succeed. Odysseus has the courage to face the large Cyclops. Odysseus said “I’ll make my own crossing in my own ship‚with my own company¨(73). Odysseus wanted
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