The duration of the time that Odysseus was gone, each of the suitors had been trying to make Penelope his wife. Although she had turned down each and every one of them, they had all forced her to sleep with them, and to take car

In The Odyssey, there was also a belief that women were evil. Odysseus had said of his own wife to Alcinous, "...But she-/ the queen hell-bent on outrage- bathes in shame/ not only herself but the whole breed of woman kind,/ even the honest ones to come, forever down the years!" (Page 263). This stresses on how much men are better than women. This emphasizes that women are like monsters, and men excel to a far higher and preferential level than females. According to this passage, one should be ashamed to be a woman.

e of them. As Telemachus says, "Suitors plague my mother- against her will-/ sons of the very men who are your finest here!/ They'd sooner die than approach her father's house/ so Icarius himself might see to his daughter's bridal,/ hand her to whom he likes, whoever meets his fancy." (page 95). This patriarchal environment, was in other words males pursuing fema

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