1. Telepinu behave like a child. He gets upset about anything and everything. He acts like a spoiled brat. Telepinu is the kind of person who wants everything to go his way, and if it doesn’t, things would go bad. As a person, I wouldn’t like him because people have to understand that things will not always go your way and you have to accept that. However, his personality represents the change of seasons every year.
2. It is necessary for a mortal to pacify Telepinu because he is the god of fertility for this society. Every time he would get mad, every living thing in the world would suffer. According to this myth, “Cattle, sheep, and people no longer conceived” when Telepinu got angry, and many plants that provide food no longer grew in the fields, such as corn, wheat, and barley. Also, trees and pastures would die off and famine would
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1. The gods Sagbata and Sogbo are like human beings in that as many siblings, they also argue with each other, but at the end, they always find forgiveness and love for one another. For example in the myth, they both disagree with what the other does and they decided to split; one of them staying up in the sky, and the other one going down to Earth. When Sagbata realized that life in Earth without his brother would not be possible, he sent for him, in some way, asked for forgiveness. Afterwards, his brother Sogbo accepted it and they were at peace again.
2. This myth reveals about the daily life of the Fon that this society rely on agriculture. They needed the rain to get the necessary food that sustain them. According to this myth, they also believed that “the forces of nature were controlled by individual gods.” The story of this myth reveals how much the Fon people believed and trusted in prophecies. And finally, it demonstrates how inheritance was supposed to works for this society. The oldest son was the one to inherit the entire possession and wealth from their
These are questions that would go unanswered unless the reader reaches within the emotions of the character. In the case of Telemachos, his emotions shaped his well being. For example, had it not been for Athene giving him confidence, by no means would he ever have thought of taking such a voyage, hence, Telemachos would have never participated in his "final test" against the suitors either. His sorrow and anger from the loss of his father and his mother constantly being attacked and proposed to by piranha-like suitors were also driving forces towards his journey.
...sp; Your thesis statement needs to be more detailed. You state the need for independence and rebellion, which you discuss in your paper. However, you do not state their transition stage from child to adolescent, which you also discuss in your paper. Almost all adolescents must make a transition from childhood to young adult and in doing so they share two central traits, the wish for independence and rebelliousness, and Nausikaa and Telemachus are no exceptions.
In a succession myth, the familial relationship between the gods is significant. In the three works: The Babylonian Enuma Elish, The Hittite Illuyanka Myths (version 2) and the Greek Theogony by Hesiod; it can be argued that the succession of the gods is a reflection of their power and that this power eventually leads to a redistribution of position within the gods. In the Babylonian Enuma Elish, each generation of god is proclaimed to be stronger than the last and eventually this culmination of power leads to Marduk killing his great-great grandmother. In the Illuyanka myths (version 2) there is a decrease of power in the line of succession but the power is restored to the Storm God in the form of his heart and his eyes. In the Greek poet Hesiod’s Theogony, gods and monsters (Cyclopes) also become more powerful with each succession and Zeus overthrows his father fulfilling the prophecy given by Heaven and Earth.
By the end of the Telemachy, Telemachus has undergone had a huge transformation. He receives information on his trip to Nestor and Menelaus that his father is still alive and returns to Ithaca with a newfound retribution for the actions of the suitors. In the end of the Odyssey, Telemachus fully completes his maturation as he avenges the suitors which he was initially too scared to confront. His revenge is taken alongside his father showing that he has grown enough as a man to fight alongside
The first four books of The Odyssey are all about Telemachos and him figuring out hat he is going to go out and look for his father. He has many dangers because there are 120 or so suitors at his house looking for his mother’s (Penelope) hand in marriage. They disrespect the rules of hospitality, eat his family’s cattle, and drink all of his wine. The suitors have begun to come up with a plot to kill Telemachos because they believe that he is in the way of marrying his mother. The leader of the suitors Antinoos concocts this conspiracy; he is the most manipulative of them all. At the beginning of book one, Telemachos is being taken advantage of and is very passive. But he finally takes a stand when he tells the suitors that they must leave after the next day’s assembly. Not only is Telemachos growing from confronting Antinoos, but also he is growing from calling the assembly. In this part of the book he takes responsibility and leadership roles that he has never done before. He has always been in the shadow of his mother and fallowed her lead, but now he is beginning to break away from that. By doing thins he is becoming more of his own person.
To begin with, Telemachus was afraid to even approach the suitors of his mother about his yearning for them to be gone. He has also lost hope that his father is still alive, because he truly does not know him. “My mother says indeed I am his. I for my part do not know. Nobody really knows his own father.” (32. 215-216) He speaks these words to Athena who in turn tells Telemachus about his father, and what he should do to find out some information about his father’s whereabouts. According to Solon, Telemachos should be at his mental and physical prowess but instead he is simply a boy who cannot even lead his own house. He needs the push and advice of a stranger for him to decide what to do.
Consider in the second book where he expresses the problems he faces: “There are two evils. I have lost a noble father, one who was a king once over you here, and was kind to you like a father; and now a greater evil, one which presently will break up the whole house and destroy all my livelihood.” Telemachus conveys to the assembly that the problem of the suitors is the greater evil, because it is the most imminent issue. The root of this problem, however, lies in Telemachus’ inability to lead because he “has lost a noble father.” He has had no training to deal with the situation at hand. Consequently, he acts like a boy, throwing his scepter on the ground in a fit of tears. It is clear from this scene that Telemachus is not ready to lead the people of Ithaka. He throws a tantrum because he has had no training from a father figure. Peisistratos, son of Nestor, says this explicitly to Menelaos in book four: “For a child endures many griefs in his house when his father is gone away, and no others are there to help him.” This is when the role of Menelaos as a father plays a part in his growth as a man. He will show Telemachus, by his stories and example, exactly what it means to be a leader like his
All of these findings enlighten us more to the character of Telemachus and his great father. We see that he is a young boy struggling to become a man without the needed guidance of his father. His mother is trying her best but must keep up an appearance to hold off the suitors as long as necessary. The way I view it at this point Telemachus has done all he can at this point and time and has finally gained strength and some additional courage to fight for his right at the throne. He holds his parents in high regards and will take whatever actions are necessary to keep them in high regards as well.
Telemakhos searching for his father. His father had been gone for about ten years. He starts searching once the kingdom is getting out of control. This is mostly because of the suitors destroying and abusing the palace’s hospitality. Some kings he finds along the way tell him little bits of information.”And there is one I miss more than the other dead I mourn for; sleep and food like grow hateful when I think of him. No soldier took on so much, went through so much, as Odysseus. That seems to have been his destiny…” (Homer, Book 4) Some true while others were not. After a while had passed, the grey-eyed goddess, Athena, gave him a bit of help to reunite with his
Growing up he heard stories of his heroic father, along with rumors of his father being dead. While Telemachus and his mother, Penelope,waited ten years for the return of Odysseus, suitors filled their homes trying to marry Penelope. Without Odysseus being around Telemachus had to be a man on his own with no male guidance. Not knowing if Odysseus is still alive gives Telemachus a feeling of hope, which his father will come back and guide him to be a man until then he is still a child, emotional and vulnerable. “(Telemachus) Suitors plague my mother-against her will… Not they-they infest out palace day and night, they butcher out cattle, our sheep, put fat goats, feasting themselves sick, swilling our glowing wine as if there’s no tomorrow…” (Homer 95) Telemachus whines and complains that they suitors are ruining his home, he is very emotional and cries. Telemachus calls himself “a boy inept for battle”(Homer 95), and says that if he had the power in him to attack he would, but instead the suitors should fear the gods’ wrath, then begs the gods to punish them. Telemachus doesn't man up to get rid of the suitors, instead he uses the excuse that he is just a boy and does nothing because a child can’t do anything but beg the god’s to care of the
In book II of the odyssey Telemachus is about to start his journey to find his father. In lines 49-85 Telemachus is beginning to give his speech during the assembly. In this speech he is trying to get some people to help him on his voyage to find his dad. For the simple fact that everything is falling apart because Telemachus mother has attracted suitors. Also Telemachus knows his family doesn’t know how to defend themselves. Although it may seem as if Telemachus words aren’t registering to the people, they are really taking his words into consideration.
...e gods and goddesses who changed his fate (ex. Poseidon, Calypso, Circle). He learned very many valuable lessons over the course of the epic all thanks to these unfortunate events. Telemachus was also affected by the suitors, who were the biggest reason for his change into a man. They were the main conflict in the story for him and they also played a small role in affecting the changes of his father. Without the suitors, abuse of xenia could not have been displayed, Telemachus would not have had much reason to mature and there would not have been as much interest in the book for readers.
At the end of book four, the reader is left to feel that Telemachus is a good and, in all likelihood, a virtuous young man. Athena, it is assumed, would not have gone to the trouble to assist in his cause if this were not the case. By the time he reaches Sparta, however, he remains untested. Athena tells him where to go and with whom to meet, she teaches him what to say, and she even physically grooms him for the role. One suspects that there are likely to be trials that lie ahead for him. Athena tells Telemachus that his actions will be a combination of instinct and divine guidance. One can only hope, if the goddess is not by his side, that these instincts will see him through these upcoming struggles.
Throughout the Odyssey, Telemakhos journeys to come to terms with the character that his lot in life necesitates. While he realizes who this identity is at an early stage, it is not until he gains the confidence largely through the support of Athena, and ultimately from his father, that Telemakhos is able to achieve self-discovery. The strength of his coming of age story heavily emphasizes the Odyssey as tale of identity.
At the beginning or the story Telemachus was naive and sheltered from the outside world. From his experiences at Pylos and Sparta a hero was born. Telemachus gained insight on the way a Greek nation should be governed as well as maturing as a person. The morals and values Telemachus gained will make him a better monarch when it is his turn to take the throne.