a great deal of adventures and powerful women who carved Odysseus’ path home to Ithaca. Throughout the journey home‚ Circe‚ Penelope‚ Ino‚ Athena‚ and a sundry of other women all had a great impact on Odysseus’ life. Out of all these women‚ Athena was the most influential‚ aiding Odysseus to get away from Calypso‚ keeping him from death’s gates‚ and helping him win Penelope back. On his way home to Ithaca‚ Odysseus gets shipwrecked on the nymph‚ Calypso’s‚ island. She didn’t want him to leave‚ but
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“Look at my wise Penelope. She falls far short of you‚ your beauty‚ stature. She is mortal after all and you‚ you never age or die...nevertheless I long- I pine‚ all my days- to travel home and see the dawn of my return.” (239-243) the text shows that Odysseus is loyal to Penelope despite Calypso’s offer of him staying with her. Odysseus loves Penelope and is devoted to getting home to her and their offspring. Proving that
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however this is the only way for women to gain respect and prestige. Penelope‚ wife of Odysseus is the paradigm for women. After the Trojan war‚ there is no news of Odysseus. No one knows of his whereabouts or what his plans are. Odysseus stays lost at sea for nearly twenty years‚ yet Penelope stays faithful and has no skeptic thoughts. Suitors come to court Penelope and amass Odysseus’s treasure‚ however due to a clever plan‚ Penelope finds a way to wait even longer for Odysseus to return. Antinous
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with different setbacks that ends up taking him 19 years to return home. While he is gone a group of wooers try to marry his wife Penelope and kill his son Telemachus. Odysseus creates a plan to disguise himself as a beggar and take back his throne. Odysseus almost losses Ithaca and everyone he loved. He is justified in killing all of the wooers to keep his wife Penelope‚ save his son Telemachus’ life and getting rid of every wooer that hurt his family to take back his
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In all societies and eras there are characteristics of a ’perfect’ person‚ male or female. In The Odyssey by Homer‚ Penelope and Odysseus represent the Greek’s ideal man and woman. Some of their characteristics many people still look up to today. Differences continue to become more noticeable. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ there are many similarities and differences of the ideal man and woman that societies have today. In The Odyssey‚ Homer depicts Odysseus as the most exemplary male in his era. He was
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Odyssey who show women’s roles in ancient Greek society. They are Penelope who is Odysseus’ wife‚ Nausicaa who is a princess and Athena who is a woman/goddess. Together these three women show that the Greeks had a complicated view of women which included them being in traditional roles as wife‚ or princess but also nontraditional roles such as over powering and imprisoning a man or powerful‚ outspoken and independent. Penelope‚ the wife of Odysseus‚ is a very traditional woman and plays that role
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males‚ whether it be a son or a husband. An example of this would be when Telemachus ordered Penelope from the room‚ in order to show the suitors of his intention to claim to his father’s throne. Another example would be Anticlea‚ Odysseus’ mother. She committed suicide because she missed Odysseus and believed he was dead. Mothers need to look after‚ nurture‚ and protect their sons and husbands. I’d say Penelope is the most complex woman I have ever read about. She is both a mother and sometimes a seductress
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Odysseus speaks to the shade of his mother. She tells him that Penelope and Telemachus are still grieving for him and his father‚ Laertes‚ has moved to the country‚ where he‚ too‚ mourns his son. Odysseus’ mother explains that she died from a broken heart. …………………………………………………………………….. Filled with horror‚ Odysseus and
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Odysseus shows infidelity multiple times throughout the whole epic. First‚ he cheats on Penelope with the goddess/nymph Calypso. Hermes finds Odysseus “tormenting himself with tears and sighs and heartache” (Homer. 65) on Ogygia’s beach‚ so clearly Odysseus is miserable and misses Penelope. This still doesn’t take away from the fact that Odysseus cheated on Penelope. Just because his heart truly belongs to Penelope doesn’t make being unfaithful acceptable. A murder can’t say they cared about the person
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strength with Penelope? He confronts her when she is weeping over Odysseus. “I hold the reins of power in this house” (p. 89) 9. How does this relate to the visit of Athena? Athena helps Telemachus to confront his mother and the suitors- something he would not have done on his own. Athena now sends him on a journey to find his father (Book Two). Book Two (p. 93-106): 1. What is the suitor’s attitude towards Penelope’s reluctance to choose one of them? The suitors think Penelope is toying with
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