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    narrator is Penelope, Odysseus’s wife. Odysseus’s goal in the Odyssey is to tell the story of the hardships he experienced getting home after the Trojan War and the many challenges and obstacles he faced before he finally got back to Ithaca and reclaimed his family and kingdom. Penelope’s goal is to tell her story: her childhood, her marriage, her life in the Underworld, her relationship with her cousin Penelope, and Odysseus’s journey in her own words. The major difference in these two texts is the way Penelope is portrayed. In the Odyssey, Penelope is seen as the typical doting wife who remains faithful to Odysseus despite a plethora of aggressive suitors who pine for her attention and hand in marriage while he is away from home for 20 years. However, the Penelopiad takes a different approach. Penelope is brought to life in this story, and you can see her true personality awakened. She is interesting and very jealous and loathsome of her cousin Helen, who is only really mentioned as King Menelaus’s wife in the Odyssey. Penelope also alludes to the…

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    the rest. This personality belongs to Penelope, and it is this personality that composes her identity. Penelope is a unique female figure, who differs tremendously from other women within the epic, and ancient Greece. She possesses traits women in 13th and 12th century BC Greece did not, and could not possess. Penelope holds attributes men despised in women, and she displays them proudly. The intelligence and knowledge that occupies her identity is unlike that of women in her time period.…

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    all the characteristics of the classic hero; strength, courage, nobility and his most distinguishing strait, intelligence. Many view Odysseus as the hero of the Odyssey but there is another character that has the same traits as Odysseus and that is Penelope, his wife. She is often forgotten in the shadow of her husband even though she is essential to the story. Ovid’s Heroines by Daryl Hine brings Penelope into the light and shows that she is much more than the wife of an Odysseus, but a hero,…

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    The Lonely Lady Greek mythology has many strange explanations of natural phenomena that also teach moral lessons. The myth of Penelope shows us that bravery can go unnoticed because it is considered average. Penelope waits for Odysseus and she is being brave by taking care of everything while he is gone, but she says that only his bravery will be noticed because he is a hero that went on a great journey. Artist John Williams Waterhouse and poet Dorothy Parker portrayed this closer to today's…

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    The odyssey is one of the oldest and well known myths written by homer. The odyssey is the story of odysseus and his loyal wife penelope. For most of the story odysseus and penelope are not together but when odysseus returns home disguised as a beggar she tests odysseus and the two finally are finally reunited.in the odyssey the suitors try to marry penelope but penelope declines there offer because she is brave. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors, John William Waterhouse uses the myth of…

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    In Book XIX of Homer's was talking about Odysseus returning home plan to kill the suitors and met Penelope. When Penelope hears of someone claiming to have met Odysseus somewhere in Crete and asked him about her husband but she does not trust to what the stranger says. Then Penelope tests his honesty by asking him to describe her husband: “Tell me what sort of clothes he wore, and tell me/ what he was like, and what his men were like” (XIX. 235-236). After be try a questioned by Penelope, the…

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    Penelope the Executioner By who would send such a weightless being to judge my life? My thoughts are deep and my memory long; - “Penelope’s Stubbornness” by Louise Gluck There are countless interpretations of Penelope from the Odyssey. Most commonly, she is a representative for marital fidelity and chasteness. Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Penelopiad, brings several more readings of Penelope into the mix of all the other different versions of Penelope. Atwood’s writing offers countless ways…

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    being lost at sea for over twenty years. Penelope, perhaps, bears the majority of these hardships. Throughout the Odyssey, grief is commonly expressed through the memories of the characters. In the epic, the shedding of tears in the name of a departed or lost friend is considered respectable. However, grief simply as an expression of one’s own selfishness for fear of death or loss is deemed dishonorable. Penelope’s grief shows much more than just her own desire to escape a difficult situation.…

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    Penelope's stream of consciousness begins with the feeling of disgust when she first meets Arnold. For example, when Arnold tried to talk to her, she ruddily replied to him and humiliated him. This is important because this shows how highly she thinks of her self and what she would do to keep her reputation. Penelope teases Arnold because peer pressure forces her to. In order to keep her beloved reputation, she willingly teases him to keep her place and put him down. Penelope even teases…

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    Penelope’s perseverance both in her faithfulness to Odysseus and her performance of the duties of a traditional housewife over the twenty years her husband was away. The painting is a visually representation of this perseverance by showing Penelope intently concentrating on weaving the shroud while her suitors try and persuade her with music and gifts. The themes of perseverance, love, and loneliness are prevalent in many of the author and artist works. Both mediums are used to effectively to…

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