Fortitude Of Women In The Odyssey

The power of love is greater than the love of power. Iphonious, Telemachus’s beloved son has fallen head over heels in love with the charming nymph, Ceria. However, if Iphonious chooses to please his heart and love Ceria, he will unwillingly relinquish his throne. Iphonious and Ceria knew they were meant for each other the moment they locked eyes. It does not do any soul good to govern love at first sight. Love in fact acts as the most dangerous power, a force not to reckon with.

Appropriation is defined as being able to shift ideas, visuals, key concepts, characters and settings from one context into another in order to manipulate old notions into new innovated ones, for example the Odyssey by poet, Homer in comparison to Margret Atwood’s the Penelopiad. The Penelopiad as a modernized, fresh view of a vaguely described character, which originated from the Odyssey named, Penelope. Penelope is an obscure or cryptic female character who is interpreted to be a cunning, sly, secretive, intelligent, passionate character that can be compared to Shakespeare’s Juliet. Penelope goes through stages of enlightenment, struggle and happiness and questions the way society works as well as trustworthy relationships. The Penelopiad

Greek Mythology has made a major impact on the world, many lessons you are educated on today are based on these myths. These myths teach not only ways to live foremost lives but also to tell there are multiple options for every situation in life. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors, John Williams Waterhouse uses the myth of Penelope to show that there are two types of selfishness; being loyal to something because of its protection or being unoptimistic to something because of obsession with something else, while in her poem “Penelope”, Dorothy Parker uses the same scene to show that in life, challenges arise but to cease those opportunities is never the way to overcome them; being determined and courageous will achieve the goal.

No relationship is perfect. All relationships have their issues, but most can be worked out. Many relationships are put under strain by duty and lack of attention. Penelope and Odysseus are one example of this. In the painting Penelope and Odysseus, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein uses the conversation between Odysseus and Penelope to show that duty often tears families apart, while in the poem “You Are Odysseus,” Linda Pastan uses the same scene to show that partners need attention and love to feel appreciated. Poems and paintings can help teach us lessons about the human experience. “You Are Odysseus” can teach us that partners need attention and love to feel appreciated by elaborating on Penelope’s point of view. Penelope and Odysseus

This quote is very important because Odysseus and Penelope finally reunited after long years. Odysseus and Penelope have a strong relationship because Penelope shows loyalty, love, and faith. Odysseus loyalty is in his battles to get home to his wife. Penelope's loyalty is steady as she waits for Odysseus while raising their son, staying faithful to him and refusing to take a suitor. The quote represents the love they share across miles and over the years is very resisting as both promise that they will be reunited. Odysseus and Penelope's marriage are their strength of faith that helps them through their difficult

Loyalty and relationships are like plants -- they both require commitment and nurturing in order to grow. When a relationship is uncared for and loyalty is broken, the relationship eventually dies and wears out, much like when a plant is neglected. In Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, loyalty is displayed when individuals are faithful to each other thus their actions will be rewarded. However, those who are false-hearted will be punished or castigated. Penelope and Odysseus’ mutual devotion throughout their twenty-year separation conveys that those who remain committed to one another will be glorified. Meanwhile, those who commit deceitful actions demonstrated by Odysseus’ ship crew and his maids reveal that those who choose to be unfaithful will be punished.

Lotus-eaters, Polyphemus, sirens and suitors were all slain and outwitted by Odysseus, King of Ithaca and victorious fighter in the trojan war, but no one ever realizes that Odysseus could never have completed his trials without the help of goddesses, Athena and Circe. Homer’s famous epic, The Odyssey although thousands of years old shows a masculine-feminine balance through the imperative involvement of Athena and Circe in Odysseus' return home.

Women characters in displays an important role and their significance they bring about in the play clearly shows the hidden power and the capabilities in them. They have great impacts throughout Homer’s book, ‘The Odyssey’.

Penelope proves herself to be a “mistress of her own heart” by (1) exercising commitment and loyalty to her departed love and (2) employing deceit and pity to manipulate her suitors, buying her time to remain independent from men other than Odysseus although she fears for the possibility of never reuniting with Odysseus and faces constant temptations from the suitors. To be a “mistress of her own heart” means that she is in control of her emotions. Penelope controls her emotions by remaining loyal to Odysseus, despite the many challenges presented to her.

Often times, the primary characters are the subjects of a context, and the story follows their footsteps. This is not an exception for both The Odyssey and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. However, Foer and Homer manage to seep in the effectiveness of secondary characters within the context, which eventually causes alternations to the main characters’ adventures.

In Susan Glaspell’s one-act play “Trifles” and Euripides ancient Greek tragedy “The Bacchae” the treatment of women can be said to be enslaved by men. In 405 B.C. (The Bacchae) and the early 1900’s (Trifles) was dominated merely by men. Joan Connelly, author of Portrait of a Priestess, described women of little or no importance and lacked the influence over political, religious or cultural views in the Greek period. Glaspell and Euripides brings awareness on the treatment of women using portrait of women and imagery. The comparison on the treatment of women in Trifles and The Bacchae show both authors perspective towards women.

The moral and practical implication of loyalty and betrayal in The Odyssey and The Song of Roland

. In facing the suitors, Penelope and Odysseus achieve success through slyness and their eagerness to reunite. For three years, Penelope beguiles the suitors, who describe her as “cunning of a sort we never hear about” (Book 2, l. 157). The long amount of time she spends on her trick shows her unwavering dedication to not succumb to the suitors. When Odysseus punishes someone, he has them “suffer in agonizing pain” (Book 20, ll. 226-227). To reprimand people for causing his household’s suffering, he ensures pain for their crime. Penelope takes care of the threat by acting discreetly, while Odysseus fixes the problem with hostility. Penelope’s deference of her remarriage in hope of Odysseus’s return shows a deep dedication. To express anger

Greeks have had a massive influence on the modern world and created some of the world 's most recognized pieces of literature. Their stories demonstrated human nature and other things regarding the world. An example of such works would be Penelope by Homer. Penelope was about the wife of Odysseus who was left behind while he went to war for 10 years. It also took him 10 years to return which totaled 20 years without Odysseus or even hearing about him. Throughout the time of his absence, the suitors were trying to convince Penelope to remarry someone else because they all imagined Odysseus would never return. Penelope had to cope without her husband and refuse and suitor from marrying her. While she was waiting she had to do housework and many things to pass time and refuse choosing a suitor. Penelope did so for the 20 years of Odysseus’ absence and was angered of the thought of people calling Odysseus brave and not her because she was being brave in a more subtle manner than Odysseus. She had to wait and not give up hope because she was so faithful. This story inspired a poem called “Penelope” by Dorothy Parker and Penelope and the Suitors by John William Waterhouse.

David Ligare painted a woman on canvas. The thick horizontal layers of sky, water, and earth, that fill the frame, mimic a standstill in time, or perhaps a building up of successive pressure. Slicing through these stratospheres sits a woman. She is tall, even when folded in a chair. All in white, she looks inwards, refusing the sight of the sea. With a harsh indignant frown, lifeless arms, and folded hands the woman seems tired of contemplation. This barefoot queen is Homer’s Penelope. Her journey is captured perfectly in this moment. From Ligare’s 1980 painting, Penelope1, there comes a notion that she is the story. This insight, that The Odyssey is about Penelope as much as it is about Odysseus, is also held by many critics today. The fact