Loyalty and Infidelity
Focusing on the marriage of Odysseus and Penelope in the epic “The Odyssey,” we will explore how one woman love for her husband shows mental prowess that most lack to possess. The objective of this text is to show the differences among the female and male positions in a marriage dealing with double standards. Penelope was faced with twenty years of adversity and not knowing the well-being of her husband, but managed to stay faithful throughout the entire ordeal. She portrayed her loyalty by staying truthful to her marriage upholding her vows for better or for worse. Her husband encounter situations where he lacked the mental toughness of his significant other and failed his marital union. The complexity of the male …show more content…
He didn’t show any constraints when confessing how much he wanted to make it back to them. Does missing his family eliminate the fact of his wrong doing along his journey back home? Temporary satisfaction with another women isn’t missing your wife. Although he expressed verbally how much he wanted to reconnect with his spouse, his actions showed his true feelings. To allow yourself to fall weak to temptation is a true testament to one’s character. Hypothetically speaking, Odysseus could have expressed his love for his wife to the other suitors and probably could have gained more respect from them by not allowing temptation to set in.
The purpose of marriage is to totally commit to one person whether things are good or bad. Staying faithful to one person is the absolute must that can’t be violated once the vows have been taken. “Gender integration, uniting a man and a woman in a gender-complementary union, is an essential, perhaps the most indispensable, purpose of marriage.”(Wardle 291) Being committed in a marriage is the ultimate commitment and foundation of a prosperous togetherness between two people. Nothing should penetrated the interference between the two individual commitments to one
Focusing on the marriage of Odysseus and Penelope in the epic “The Odyssey,” we will explore how one woman love for her husband shows mental prowess that most lack to possess. The objective of this text is to show the differences among the female and male positions in a marriage dealing with double standards. Penelope was faced with twenty years of adversity and not knowing the well-being of her husband, but managed to stay faithful throughout the entire ordeal. She portrayed her loyalty by staying truthful to her marriage upholding her vows for better or for worse. Her husband encounter situations where he lacked the mental toughness of his significant other and failed his marital union. The complexity of the male …show more content…
He didn’t show any constraints when confessing how much he wanted to make it back to them. Does missing his family eliminate the fact of his wrong doing along his journey back home? Temporary satisfaction with another women isn’t missing your wife. Although he expressed verbally how much he wanted to reconnect with his spouse, his actions showed his true feelings. To allow yourself to fall weak to temptation is a true testament to one’s character. Hypothetically speaking, Odysseus could have expressed his love for his wife to the other suitors and probably could have gained more respect from them by not allowing temptation to set in.
The purpose of marriage is to totally commit to one person whether things are good or bad. Staying faithful to one person is the absolute must that can’t be violated once the vows have been taken. “Gender integration, uniting a man and a woman in a gender-complementary union, is an essential, perhaps the most indispensable, purpose of marriage.”(Wardle 291) Being committed in a marriage is the ultimate commitment and foundation of a prosperous togetherness between two people. Nothing should penetrated the interference between the two individual commitments to one