Penelope

Telemachus’s life by Antinous shows that he is willing to do whatever is necessary to claim the crown and Penelope even perform some actions that would be considered psychopathic. In the end, it is Antinous’s two weaknesses, his overambitious nature and his obsessive lust for Penelope, which result in his fall. If Antinous hadn’t taken all the food and drink from Telemachus on his quest for the crown and Penelope then maybe he would have survived the massacre at the conclusion of the book or…

“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins and “The Odyssey” by Robert Fitzgerald provide their readers with a character that is the embodiment of a perfect hero. Katniss Everdeen and Odysseus both portray loyal, brave, and responsible heroes who endure many hardships, and survive them however, the challenges that the contemporary character, Katniss Everdeen, faces before and during the Hunger Games along with her rewards after she returns are dissimilar from the ancient Greek hero Odysseus’…

The Odyssey, written by Homer, is an epic that revolves around Odysseus and his men overcoming many obstacles while trying find their way back home to Ithaka after being lost for 20 years after the Trojan War. Back in Ithaka, Odysseus’ wife Penelope is struggling to keep up with her marriage due to the suitors forcing her to marry one of them. Telemachus, his son, who has been fatherless for a very long time now, will not give up on the idea that Odysseus will soon come back and embarks on an…

character named Odysseus- a well known hero of The Odyssey, begins his adventure. Odysseus is very intelligent and knows how to defeat his opponents by outsmarting them. He has to overcome temptations and survive the obstacles to get back to his wife Penelope. At the end of the story the moral of the story is the fall into temptations, and Pride. Both stories involve a character that goes through a considerable amount of adversity, but Charles Dickens has a more flamboyant style of writing.…

safely return home. Years later, he washed up on the shores of Ogygia, and found the goddess Calypso. He spent seven years on her island, and the hero and immortal maiden become very close over his stay. All while this was happening, Odysseus’ wife Penelope remained faithful to him, even fighting off the courting of hundreds of suitors while Odysseus was away. A legendary hero is known as faithful, especially to a certain special lover. Since Odysseus was not faithful to his wife, he should not…

In book 22 of The Odyssey, Odysseus finally returns home to Ithaca and seeks to rid his household of the suitors desiring to marry Penelope. While Odysseus is seeking personal revenge, he is simeoutanously enacting justice as the crimes of the suitors have violated the laws of guest friendship that are upheld by the gods. He intends to achieve this by purging his household of the suitors as well as any of his servants who have been disloyal to him by willingly aiding or benefitting from the…

the protagonist Odysseus has traits of a hero such as loyalty, courage, and cunningness. The king of Ithaca shows these traits multiple times throughout his twenty year journey home. One way Odysseus is a hero is because he is loyal to his wife, Penelope. On his journey home, Odysseus is held captive by Circe and Calypso but never accepted their relationship. “I have been detained long by Calypso, loveliest among goddesses, who held me in her smooth caves, to be here heart`s delight, as Circe…

Odysseus was well justified when he decided to take action, by killing his wife’s wooers, and anyone who was associated with them. One reason Odysseus actions against the suitors was compensated for was the way he seen them treat his servants, wife, son, and his palace. During the time Homer was believed to have written stories, respect was expected from both the host and the guest, whether the host was a wealthy landlord or a poor merchant, and the guest a wandering prince, or a beggar. The…

revenge on Odysseus. The first way Homer is able to show revenge as a means of obtaining justice is through Odysseus revenge on the suitors and maids. In this example he shows the nature of revenge as well as the extents. The suitors have ruined Penelope and Telemachus's life, as Telemachus reflects, “my home and all I have are being ruined [...] these men spend their days around our house killing our beeves and shep and fatted goats, carousing, soaking up our…

In the epic poem, The Odyssey, people have both helped and tortured Odysseus ever since the Trojan War was over. Odysseus has been stuck traveling from place to place just to get home to Ithaca to see his family again. There were three main parties who hindered his journey home: Calypso, Poseidon, and the suitors. Throughout Odysseus’ journey home he experienced isolation by the hand of Calypso on Ogygía and wasn’t allowed to return home until one of the gods stepped in and did something. He…