Penelope As A Women
The story of Odysseus is the ultimate family story, a tale of a man trying to return home from a long bloody war to his wife and child. Because of his long journey to Ithaca people live in Ithaca belive that he is no more alive. To get kingship of Ithaca marriage with , Penelope (wife of Odysseus) is the only way. Many suitors invade the palace of Odysseus and they pillage the assets of him. Penelope does not give up waiting for her husband and she detains the suitors by deceiving.After Odyseus returned his home this sad story is ended with death of the suitors. There is another story of woman in "Odyssey" , the story of Clytmenestra (the wife of Agamemnon). Her husband, like Odysseus, goes to Trojan war but she does not wait for Agamemnon and when Agamemnon returns to home she and her lover kill him. I can say that Altough Penelope deceive the suitors, she is the dream character for a woman, for a wife and for a mother especially when she confront with Clytmenestra this idea becomes more meaningful.The character of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey has served as an archetype of femininity proper. Her physical attributes are the most demanding standards, and she is also given many intellectual attributes affec
Penelope is one of the most loyal and faithful characters that I have ever seen in greek mythology. This situation is expressed by Agamemnon too "The girl you (Odysseus) brought home made a valiant vife! True to her husband's honor and her own, Penelope, Ikarios faithful daughter!" (451) She has not seen or heard from her husband for twenty years, yet she still waits for him. She is a wife and mother, and performs the duties that are associated with that role. She worries when her son Telemachus sails to find his father and grieves over the absence of her husband. Many times throughout the poem Penelope cries herself to sleep, longing for word of her husband's welfare. Penelope introduces him to the audiences in her praises of him, saying: " My lord, my lion heart, gone, long ago_ the bravest man, and best, of the Danaans, famous through Hellas and the Argive midlands."(74) After nearly twenty years, Penelope still sings praises of her husband. At any time Penelope could have married one of the suitors and provided a father figure for her son. The fact that she doesn't succumb to this demonstrates her undying loyalty to her husband. The deceptive and cunning Clytemnestra, is one who hold the exact opposite traits compared to Penelope. Her husband (Agamemnon) was the one of the warrior o
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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