Odysseus Loyalty To Penelope In Homer's Odyssey

According to Homer, she was “magical”, “enchanting”, a “beauty”, “divine and lovely”. She was quite taken with Odysseus, as he was a champion of the Trojan War. Calypso kept Odysseus with her for years, against his will. She asked him one day, “Odysseus, /after all these years with me, you still desire/ your old home…/If you could see it all…/you would stay here…and be/immortal-though you want her forever, /that bride whom you pine each day. /Can I be less desirable than she is?

Why does Liza Jane continue being faithful to her husband that she hasn’t seen in years and doesn’t even know if he is alive? I believe that Liza Jane is faithful to her husband as long as she believes he is faithful to her. Throughout the twenty five years that she was looking for him she never once had a doubt that he went and married another women, or that he had forgotten about her. She knew he wasn’t dead when she continued having dreams about finding him.

A virtuous lesson taught throughout The Odyssey is the practice of loyalty. One can pick up acts of loyalty in the literary text when Penelope after twenty years without her husband remained pure and never remarried to another man. Penelope so simply could have lost hope that her beloved husband was not going to return home from the war in Troy. Instead, she felt a sense of hope and continued to be loyal to her husband remaining pure. I practiced this virtuous lesson learned by showing loyalty to a friend recently made.

She suffers unbelievable tragedy with the death of her only son and husband in a matter of a month, yet she is one of the only static characters because it does not change her. Willie is Lucy’s first love and they both come from humble beginnings in Mason County. She is largely domestic (Jack spends a good portion of the first chapter describing Lucy in a state of “bliss of self-fulfillment” because she served dinner successfully) and makes many sacrifices for Willie’s career- she stays married to him despite his affairs with multiple women (Warren 1.51). Lucy’s main internal conflict is looking for a “something so [she] could live” after Willie and Tom’s death (Warren 10.590). She finds resolution for this when she adopts Tom’s baby, whom she believes has “got to be Tom’s” and decides she must accept her responsibility in carrying on Willie’s legacy (for her own good) and remember him as “a great man” rather than live in bitterness (Warren

Throughout this time he remained faithful, only engaging with goddesses who could not be rejected. Even when he was with goddesses the only woman on his mind was Penelope. “Can mortals compare with goddesses in grace and form?” (page 654 line 110-1110, Calypso didn't understand how Odysseus would still want to return to Penelope after spending many years together. His decision would remain unchanged even though he was offered immortality. Penelope back in Ithaca also remained faithful even with the many suitors in her home.

The young wife does not want her husband to leave because she is in love with her partner. The lone tumbleweed flies a myriad miles (Li Bo 156). Li Bo has to say goodbye to his friend because he will be going far far away from him. In these three poems, the author shows a lot of sad feelings throughout his writings.

Determination is an important for Odysseus because of long desire to return home. He was held confined on an island all alone. He was tempted many times and fell into temptation in the long covenant of his wife Penelope. Determination is also showed in his thought process; his longing to live For instance, when Odysseus finally goes home, he wanted to hurt the men who had been taking advantage of his wife and he follows through with his plan to kill them. Penelope, Odysseus wife is another example of having complete determination.

The time they spent together helped them build a solid relationship. “It ain’t so funny, him and me goin’ around together...I knowed his aunt Clara...When his aunt Clara died Lennie just come along with me out workin’. Got kinda used to each other after a while.”(pg.39) In this passage from the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ written by John Steinbeck, George explains how his and Lennie’s relationship came to be. They’ve been with each other for a long time which strengthens their already tight bond. Since George started looking after Lennie when his aunt died, George was the closest Lennie had to family and started to develop as a parental figure in his life.

The Book of Tobit In the Book of Tobit, the relationship between Tobit and his wife Anna is a model of what it means to be a helpmate to your spouse. Their relationship is characterized by faithful and loving. The best example of this is found in chapter two, Tobit became blind and could no longer work, which caused great economic hardship for him and his family. Anna had to become the provider for their family (Tobit 2:9-11). To be a helpmate means to be a helper to your spouse, and it requires faithfulness and unconditional love.

Jimmy Cross is the first lieutenant who carries pictures and letters from Martha, the woman he loves who—sadly—does not love him back. The pictures and letters from Martha symbolize Jimmy’s longing to be loved and comforted. It is ironic that although he is the first lieutenant who is expected to take charge and lead others, yet he never took charge of his own love life. This is a regret and burden Cross carries to the end of the story. “It was very sad, he thought.

Odysseus’ relationship with Circe keeps him from returning home because he stays there for a year. Odysseus says “So she enticed and won our battle-hardened spirits over.” (245:10: 513-514) While Odysseus is there, he is so enamored with Circe that he forgets about the home he loves so much, and the son and wife who he had left behind. Similar to the situation with Calypso, Odysseus is lured to spend time with Circe even though he focused on returning home otherwise. This shows that Odysseus may be a lot more fake than he lets on because for all his talk of wanted to return home he spent a year on Circe’s island not making an effort to return to his homeland. Maybe the real reason that he is always saying that he wants to go home despite the way he acts is because he is telling this story to the people that he hopes will bring him back to Ithaca so he is trying to extract pity from them even if he isn’t as