We followed two men, Odysseus and Everett, on their dangerous journey to return to their loved ones. We see that the men share similar opponents, but their wifes are different. So when we look at Penny, Everett’s wife and Penelope Odysseus’ wife we can see the differences. With the time Odysseus was gone, someone had to lead the kingdom and that someone was Penelope. The enemies Odysseus had to face,had delayed his return. So Penelope still ran the kingdom. After awhile everyone thought Odysseus was dead so Achaeans came and told Penelope that she was to get remarried to one of them, Penelope refused because she still had hope that Odysseus was alive and that someday he would return, The Achaeans threatened to attack the kingdom. Penelope didn’t want to remarry because she knew that they would take her son’s inheritance of the kingdom, so she came up with a plan she told the Achaeans and the suitors “ Young men, my suitors, now that my lord is dead let me finish my weaving before I marry or else my thread will have been spun in vain it is a shroud I weave for Lord Laertes.¨ (page 862 line 133-136) She would weave in the day, and at night she would sneak into the room, she weaves the tapestry in, and undo all the tapestry, with this plan, she held them off for almost four …show more content…
When her plan about weaving a tapestry failed she came up with another task. She gave the Achenes an impossible challenge she had twelve little rings put up and told them they had to shoot an arrow through all twelve and who ever could do it would be the one she married. Penelope gave the Achenes time to adjust the bow to their fitting needs and
What would you do for entertainment in a time before television? The Ancient Greeks solved this dilemma with Bards. Humans have always enjoyed great stories and storytellers; the ancient Greeks were no different. However, oral tradition can encompass and convey much more than stories. It can reveal an identity, motivation or persuade an audience. For the Ancient Greeks, stories take on the additional role as the sharing and spreading of information. So, while it is enjoyable to hear tales of adventure, oral tradition has practical uses too.
“O muse! Sing in me, and through me tell the story...Of that man skilled in all the ways of contending...A wanderer, harried for years on end…” (Homer). These are the opening words of The Odyssey. This is also in the opening scene of O Brother Where Art Thou?. O Brother is a reception of the revered story of Odysseus’ journey with a bit of a twist. The works have similarities that only a person well informed of the Odyssey could see. The Odyssey and O Brother highlight the trials of the main character’s journeys. While the Odyssey was written in the eighth century, O Brother is set during the 1930s in the deep south. Each of the trials that the characters face is supposed to make them quit their journey, but they proceed with greater determination.
Everett and Odysseus have been compared by many, and now it can justified that their characteristics, and experiences are analogous. To sum up that these men are so alike they both boast, are braver than many or so when they choose to be, and can be dishonest at times, manifest that Everett is in fact a worthy representation of Odysseus.
In Odyssey, Homer creates a parallel between Odysseus and Telemachos, father and son. The two are compared in the poem from every aspect. One parallel was the quest of Telemachos, in correlation with the journey of his father. In this, Odysseus is developed from a childish, passive, and untested boy, to a young man preparing to stand by his father's side. This is directly connected to the voyage of Odysseus, in that they both lead to the same finale, and are both stepping-stones towards wisdom, manhood, and scholarship.
Penelope’s husband, Odysseus has been at war for the past twenty years and is presumably dead. During this time, Penelope and her son Telemachus end up living amongst numerous suitors who attempt to court Penelope. However she continues to mourn the “loss” her husband
There was kind of ambiguity when the Odyssey and Penelope started to talk to each other’s after the maid had wash his feet. When Penelope described her dream as she said about the eagle who came and killed all the suiters whom she would not like to marry with and talked to her with a human voice, telling her that he is her husband. I also found Odysseus responds tricky a little bit, because sometimes he is about to say that he is Odysseus and sometimes his responds are just like a new story to Penelope. The poor Penelope did not recognize her beloved husband Odysseus, because she is certain that he died many years ago. However, she held her hope like a woman holding a candle in the middle of the dark. She could not forget her husband and it
Firstly, Penelope who plays Odysseus’s wife is alone tending to her city Ithica until her husband returns. Meanwhile Odysseus is out fighting in the Trojan War and against many of the Greek God’s who are trying to make his trip back home as eventful and hard as possible; “…work out his journey home so Odysseus can return” (Homer 276). While King Odysseus is away Penelope is to deal with a bunch of suitors who are eating and trashing out Ithica, “…if those suitors have truly paid in blood for all their reckless outrage” (559). In order for Penelope to keep peace until Odysseus returns she has to come up with a clever plan to keep the suitors from completely taking over. For almost 2 years Penelope was able to keep the suitors from getting out of hand by saying she will find someone to marry and replace Odysseus after she is d...
In the ending chapters of The Odyssey Homer bring about many interesting points in which would bring us to believe that in fact Penelope had helped to slay the suitors. Penelope did not physically help to slay the suitors when Odysseus had been in the room killing them. It was Penelope’s actions leading up to this scene that may have helped Odysseus in his successful killing spree of the suitors. For the case of the argument we will discuss points in which it is believed that she had recognized him disguised as the old man, which gave her the ability to help Odysseus. On the other hand, the argument that she may have not recognized Odysseus would contribute us into believing that she did not help Odysseus to slay the suitors but that things
In this assignment, I will be analyzing the characteristics of Odysseus and Penelope based on Homer and Ovid’s accounts. By exploring this element, we can compare and contrast how Odysseus and Penelope behave in certain situations. Although they have many similarities, they are both different as well, in which each displays a series of their own wisdoms in their encounters.
However, his journey isn’t over yet. This last leg of Odysseus’s journey is perhaps the most important and crucial. Odysseus’s nurse and maidservant, Eurycleia is the first woman in Ithaca to know that Odysseus is back after she recognizes the scar on his leg while she is washing him. Eurycleia vows to keep his identity a secret. Odysseus’s wife, Penelope has stayed faithful to Odysseus for all the years that he was gone. Penelope was consistently unweaving her web to the delay the suitors. The reader even grows sympathetic for Penelope as “we see her struggle to make the virtuous choice about her marriage, despite pressures from her suitors, her son’s endangered situation, and her own uncertainty about Odysseus’s survival” (Foley ). Finally, Odysseus reveals his identity and Penelope is bewildered, but quickly embraces her husband after he tells her the secret of their immovable bed. It is the faithfulness of Penelope and nurse Eurycleia that insures Odysseus’s survival to the very end.
Upon further reading, we learn the determination of Odysseus to return home to his beloved wife and son. He proves his faithfulness to her in his thought and actions. For example, although Odysseus allowed Calypso to manipulate him, Odysseus would lament night and day for his son and wife during the time he was there. She offered him immortality saying “Stay right here, preside in our house with me and be immortal.”1 Although the offer was enticing, he refused. When Odysseus returned home, he found the suitors in his dwelling. So, to save his Penelope, from this treachery, he planned in secret the suitor's doom by dressing as a beggar and sat around their table to observe them and when the time was right, he revealed himself and slew the suitors.
Appearance of a Woman Indeed, women play an influential role in life. In The Odyssey, women appear as goddesses, wives, and servants who are faithful, wise, and powerful. In Homer's ballad The Odyssey, Penelope is the faithful and loyal wife of Odysseus. Penelope expresses her courage, compassion, and helpfulness throughout The Odyssey. She has faith and depends on the goddess Athena to grant her wishes.
In the book The Odyssey, some of the characters are downright dirty, they lie, cheat and steal just to get their way. One of these characters is the main character Odysseus. Odysseus is the King of one of the parts of Greece called Ithaca, so when he heard that his fellow Grecians were going to besiege the city of Troy, naturally, he left his baby son and wife in charge of Ithaca and left to Troy with his army. But on his way home victorious Odysseus’s ships were blown off course by a storm. He then had to find his way back to Ithaca, but along the way he met a lot of women, and he was not always as loyal to his wife as his wife was to him. So, overall, Odysseus is very disloyal to Penelope (his wife) and does not deserve her loyalty.
In the film, Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, is portrayed as Penny. She and her husband, Ulysses Everett McGill, were divorced when he was convicted for practicing law without a license and sentenced to time on a chain gang. Penny then tried to convince her daughters that he was hit by a train. She becomes engaged to be married to a man described as a bona fide suitor. In the Odyssey, Penelope had several suitors loitering in the palace while Odysseus was away. When her husband does return to take her back, Penny does not claim him. She tells a bystander, “He’s not my husband. Just a drifter, I guess…Just some no-account drifter…” (Coen, O Brother Where Art Thou). In the Odyssey, Penelo...
A main purpose of women in the poem is to define the characters of Odysseus and Penelope. Women's seductive natures serve as a test of character for Odysseus. His choice to leave the sexual pleasures of Kirke and Calypso is proof of his virtue and desirability as a husband. The same depiction causes the virtuous Penelope to stand out in the large pool of vileness as a desirable wife. The contradictions also have a significant affect on the poem and the reader.