Penelope, the Odyssey

genus Penelope, Loyal married woman of Lord Odysseus While Penelope is not the principal character in marks The Odyssey, Odysseus perception of her is optimal. The relationship between them is not ground on loyalty, we, the audience, have the privilege to understand his genuine feelings towards her. Throughout Odysseus journey, kor assures us that he loves Penelope regardless of the fact that he has his episodes of infidelity. Homer excessively insinuates that Odysseus, although maybe not immediately, acknowledges the sacrifices that she makes for him.He overly elaborates that Penelope is dedicated to Odysseus by immutablely reminding us of how she refuses to give up on her jointure and bury with one of the many suitors that plague her e secern. Penelope proved herself to be a strong individual in The Odyssey. For years during Odysseus absence from his kingdom, un equal to(p) to reverberation home, t here(predicate) were men who con feeded against one another ho downf all to ldg that they would be able to fruit Odysseus place on his throne.However, Penelope continued to postponement for her husband to watch home regardless of how unlikely it was that Odysseus would reclaim his title of king, all trance allowing the possible replacements to believe that they have a chance as Antinous describes to Odysseus and Penelopes only son So high and mighty, Telemachussuch get rid of rage Well now, fling your accusations at us? Think to pin the blame on us? You think again. Its not the suitors here who deserve the blame, its your own dear mother, the matchless queen of cunning.Look here. For one-third years now, getting on to four, shes played it fast and tease with all our hearts, building each mans hopes dangling promises, dropping hints to each save all the while with something else in mind. (Book 290-100) This suggests that women of the baseball club in Ancient Greece would be devoted and dependent on their husbands, but were also given options to pave their own paths. If tragedy were to strike, women would be able to do what they wanted to, in terms of choosing a new husband.Throughout the big poem, Penelope can be viewed as either active or passiveactive, in the sense that she is content with being independent and not allowing the suitors to sway her mind towards choosing them, and passive, because she allows the same suitors to eat away at her possessions and also that she remains submissive as a loyal wife. However, the only constant that is guaranteed is that she does love and is loyal to Odysseus, as she reveals to a stranger, oblivious to the fact that it is her husband, in fact, in disguise No, no, stranger, wise Penelope demurred, whatever form and gas I Had, what praise Id win, he deathless gods washed-up that day the Achaeans sailed away to Troy, my husband in their ships, Odysseusif he could return to tend my life the renown I had would only grow in glory. presently my life is torment . . . look at the griefs som e god has loosed against me in all the nobles who rule the islands round about, Dulichion, Same, and wooded Zacynthus too, and all who lord it in joyous Ithaca itself they court me against my will, they lay waste my house. So I pay no heed to strangers, suppliants at my door, not even heralds out on their existence errands here I yearn for Odysseus, always, my heart pines away. Book 19138-51) It was also made clear to the suitors, even though they were being led on, that they still that Penelope had no interest in substituting Odysseus, as explained by one of the murdered suitors Famous Atrides Amphimedons ghost called back. Lord of men, Agamemnon, I remember it all, your majesty, as you say, and I will tell you, start to subtlety now, the story of our death, the brutal end contrived to take us off. We were case the wife of Odysseus, gone so long. She neither spurned nor embraced a marriage she despised, no, she simply planned our death, our black doomThis was her latest mast erpiece of contrivance she set up a great loom in the majestic halls and she began to wave, and the weaving finespun, the yarns endless, and she would lead us on Young men, my suitors, now that tycoon Odysseus is no more, go slowly, keen as you are to marry me, until I can finish off this web . . . so my weaving wont all fray and come to nothing. This is a shroud for old lord Laertes, for that day when the deadly fate that lays us out at last will take him down. I dread the shame my countrywomen would down upon me, yes, if a man of such wealth should lie in state without a shroud for cover. Her very words, and despite our pride and passion we believed her. So by day shed weave at her great and maturement web by night, by the light of torches set beside her, she would unravel all shed done. Three whole years she deceived us blind, seduced us with this plot . . . (Book 24130-57) While Penelope can be deemed mischievous by those whom she had deceived, the result was that she was truly faithful to her husband, despite the amount of time she had to wait for him and aside from his lack of fidelity towards her. Works Cited Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York, 1996