Examples Of Penelope's Loyalty In The Odyssey

Loyalty is a very typical theme found in many pieces of literature. Homer's story “The Odyssey” conveys this abundant use of loyalty by displaying the adventures and temptations the main character of this story goes through to stay loyal to his spouse. Adventures The protagonist of this story, Odysseus, went through many adventures throughout 10 years to make it home to his wife, Penelope. For instance, during his journey, he was captured by Calypso (Homer 562).

Throughout the story Penelope stays loyal to Odysseus by waiting 20 years for her husband to return. Odysseus shows his loyalty to Penelope by wanting to go home as far as rejecting immortality for Penelope. Penelope proves this when she says “How I long for my husband--alive in memory, always” (88). Odysseus shows his loyalty to Penelope when he tells Calypso to “Look at my wise Penelope. She falls far short of you, your beauty, stature.

Penelope has waited 20 years in Ithaca for her husband’s return while the suitors try to court her. Penelope could have restored order in the palace simply by marrying one of the suitors and driving the others out. However, her love and loyalty toward Odysseus is so strong that she is not content with anyone else. Ada also remains loyal to her family. After her father died, she could have given up on Black Cove Farm when she realized that it was difficult work to maintain.

I must call attention to the fact that the maids’ never blamed Penelope for their deaths. Even in the afterworld, when they had freedom of expression, they fled from Penelope, as if ashamed of themselves, like they had let her down and were afraid to face her. However, the maids are constantly hunting down Odysseus, resentfully lamenting their fate. Whenever the maids are nearing him, Odysseus feels nervous and queasy, as stated on page 189, Penelope declares “They make him nervous… They make him want to be anywhere and anyone else.”

Is Penelope powerful,weak, or just complicated? In Homer’s The Odyssey, Penelope is a character that is cast to the side as a grieving wife, but she is much more than that. Penelope is a strong character because she’s wise and thoughtful in her actions, and she has an unbreakable will.

Penelope is the ultimate test to whether the trials of the women strengthen Odysseus’ desire for wisdom. Odysseus has to prove to Penelope that he is actually Odysseus and can only be reunited through cunning. Penelope “spoke to her husband, trying him out”(ODY 23.181), discerning whether he truly deserves her wisdom. Like the unification of Zeus with Metis, only cunning can re-unify the strength of Odysseus with the wisdom of Penelope to give birth to order. In her wisdom, Penelope realizes how deceptive that the gods are, and explains to Odysseus why she needed to try him: Do not now be angry with me nor blame me...

Secondly, Odysseus experienced the exact same pain as Penelope since they were torn away from each other. Odysseus’s heart became a prize that women without

In Homer’s Poem, The Odyssey, Penelope is the exceptionally patient and clever spouse of the infamous hero, Odysseus, and the mother of Telemachus. One poignant factor of Penelope’s character is her patience and devotion which is displayed throughout the poem. With her husband absent for a great majority of her life for the later of twenty years and his location unknown, Penelope stays, patiently awaiting Odysseus’ return, all whilst preserving their estate and raising her son by herself. Throughout this time, she had many persistent suitors in pursuit of her, abusing her husband’s absence.

Penelope proves that women can be just as smart, if not smarter, than men. She outsmarts the suitors that invade her home to escape marriage. For example, she weaves each day for years and tells the suitors that when she is done she will marry. Homer writes, “This was her latest masterpiece of guile: she set up a great loom in the royal halls and she began to weave, and the weaving finespun, the yarns endless, and she would lead us on: ‘Young men, my suitors, now that King Odysseus is no more, go slowly, keen as you are to marry me, until I can finish off this web…” (Homer). She deceives them because she undoes all of her work after every day with the knowledge that they are too busy with feasts and wine to notice.

In the book of The Odyssey Odysseus remained loyal to the idea of being back home with Penelope which differs from Penelope remaining loyal to their marriage. The Odyssey follows Odysseus' heroic journey back home to his people and wife. Odysseus faces lots of distractions along the way one being held back a year at Circe's island. You might be thinking, “But how dare he stay day and night with a woman when his wife has been nothing but loyal!”, and yes do believe I said the same. In book 10 lines 186-192, Odysseus said, “They made me feel a pang, and I agreed…to Circe's flawless bed and took the goddess knees in supplication..

She proves how loyal and steadfast she is. Even though Odysseus has been gone for 20 years, and could be dead or never return home, Penelope has not remarried. She does her best to protect Telemachus, and raises him by herself. The reason for her loyalty, is likely that she could not imagine a world in which she was not Odysseus’ wife. After being married to him for so long, she likely uses her marital status as a defining part of herself.

These women influenced the conditions of the journey by guiding Odysseus in different directions, and aiding him crucially. Their authority showed the idea behind an old proverb, which states, “Behind every great man there’s a great woman”. Throughout The Odyssey, the women exemplified their power during the course of Odysseus’ journey.     Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, bravely held down the front in Ithaca while her husband struggled to find his way back home. In Book 18, Penelope spoke to the ever-so-desperate suitors about what Odysseus “told” her before he left.

In an epic poem, The Odyssey, by Homer, Odysseus struggles to come back home while his wife, Penelope, faces barbarous suitors who plague her house to court her for the marriage in order to claim the kingship of Ithaca. With an absence of the man of the household and a son who is not old enough to rule over the country and handle the domestic complications, Penelope endeavors to keep the household orderly and civilized. In order to prevent further chaos in the household, Penelope maintains her role as the Queen of Ithaca and Odysseus’s wife through her loyalty and cunning. For a woman who does not know when her man will return home, Penelope is extremely strong to keep hope and wait for her husband; thus, her unwavering loyalty to her husband

Yes, Penelope struggles greatly with a very important decision throughout the course of the story. In the background of the main plot, Penelope struggles with a very important decision throughout the time Odysseus remains lost at sea. After many years without Odysseus’ return, the prospect of a new marriage inclines itself onto Penelope. The sons of the noblest families come to live with Penelope in order to court her for marriage.

In the Penelopiad in the first two pages, Penelope discovered the truth after the Odyssey and she stated herself that she had been faithful the entire time and Penelope has been seen time and time again to be good so we can trust her on that. Second look at differently translated version of the Odyssey, in the first and second about Penelope and Telemachus, it shows that Penelope did in fact missed Odysseus. In the first page in Penelope and Telemachus, a poet called Phemius was singing a song and it upset Penelope because he was singing about Odysseus’s Journey “I miss him all the time that man,My husband whose story is so famous throughout Greece” Another reason that Penelope stay faithful to Odysseus out of love and not fear is when in the Second page of the Penelope and Telemachus text Telemachus yelled