What Love Can Do To a Person
All women wish to find the ideal, perfect man, and all men want to find the beautiful, kind, and amazing woman. A woman (or a man) wants someone that can’t bear to live without her, and someone who will understand her and will never give up on her. In a previous book I read, called “Romeo and Juliet”, I found that true love between Romeo and Juliet. One can’t bear to live without the other, and so they end up killing themselves so they don’t have to live alone in pain and sorrow. Willing to make a sacrifice as great as that shows what I think an ideal love is. In the book “The Odyssey” by Homer that perfect love is portrayed in the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope. Odysseus and Penelope are meant for each other because when they were separated 20 years ago, they fell into grieving and their lives were never the same; an effect as strong as that shows a true love. Additionally, after losing all his men and being stranded on an island, Odysseus sacrifices his manliness pride to get home and see his wife again. Even though …show more content…
Penelope knows Odysseus so well, that she knows to challenge the stranger with a statement about the bed Odysseus built. If it was truly Odysseus, she knew that statement would be his breaking point. Then, when she realizes that it’s Odysseus, she runs to him and says “You make my stiff heart know that I am yours” (436). Combining it with Odysseus’ reaction: “Now from his breast into his eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for” (436), it can be seen that they saved each other. There is only one true love that can do that, and the fact that they can heal each other clearly shows a unique and incredible love. Odysseus is the only one who can soften her heart and make it whole, and Penelope is the only one who can lift the heavy weight off his
All women wish to find the ideal, perfect man, and all men want to find the beautiful, kind, and amazing woman. A woman (or a man) wants someone that can’t bear to live without her, and someone who will understand her and will never give up on her. In a previous book I read, called “Romeo and Juliet”, I found that true love between Romeo and Juliet. One can’t bear to live without the other, and so they end up killing themselves so they don’t have to live alone in pain and sorrow. Willing to make a sacrifice as great as that shows what I think an ideal love is. In the book “The Odyssey” by Homer that perfect love is portrayed in the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope. Odysseus and Penelope are meant for each other because when they were separated 20 years ago, they fell into grieving and their lives were never the same; an effect as strong as that shows a true love. Additionally, after losing all his men and being stranded on an island, Odysseus sacrifices his manliness pride to get home and see his wife again. Even though …show more content…
Penelope knows Odysseus so well, that she knows to challenge the stranger with a statement about the bed Odysseus built. If it was truly Odysseus, she knew that statement would be his breaking point. Then, when she realizes that it’s Odysseus, she runs to him and says “You make my stiff heart know that I am yours” (436). Combining it with Odysseus’ reaction: “Now from his breast into his eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for” (436), it can be seen that they saved each other. There is only one true love that can do that, and the fact that they can heal each other clearly shows a unique and incredible love. Odysseus is the only one who can soften her heart and make it whole, and Penelope is the only one who can lift the heavy weight off his