The ODyssey
Throughout Odysseus long journey over the course of twenty years, Penelope continues to wait for her one true love, Odysseus. Penelope is patient, and loyal. Penelope and Telemakhos are approached countless times by the suitors, whom she will be forced to remarry. Nearly everyone tries to convince her that Odysseus will never return. No one can convince her to remarry, so soon she is forced. Penelope has waited and waited for her one true love to return from the battle at Troy. She has waited for him for twenty years, and still he has not returned. She does everything she can to obtain the marriage and family she has. Penelope is loyal and faithful wife who deserves to be happy again after waiting twenty long years for Lord Odysseus, her love. Penelope is a very loyal woman, she continues to show this throughout the book. She does everything she can just so she won't have to remarry. Penelope asks that the Akhians let her finish her weaving, and if by the time she is finished and Odysseus hasn't returned, then she will be forced to choose another husband. Penelope worked on it during the day, but secretly at night she would unravel everything she did during the day. Her plan worked, until the Akha
The Akhaians tell her that they'll never go anywhere else, until she takes and Akhaian to liking. Several incidents like this occurred throughout the book, and every time, Penelope refused. She believes very strongly that her Lord Odysseus will return home, partly because they have always had a strong marriage, partly because she's not ready to accept that he's "gone," and partly because of the passion and love that she has for him. Either way, regardless of what anyone else says. All that she can do is wait.... "She had not dozed away so tranquilly since her Lord went to war, on that ill wind to Illion." "He has to dismiss her mother from the house, or make her marry the man her father names and she prefers." Think about how long twenty years is now, and how long it seemed back then. To wait for someone for that long shows, self-discipline, selflessness, loyalty, and patience. Penelope has all of these, mixed in with a little bit of something I like to call faith. Throughout the book she is constantly reminded of her loss. Suitor after suitor, God after God, person after person tries to convince her that he is in fact dead, and died at Troy. But no matter what, her hea
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