The first chapter of The Odyssey is called “A Goddess Intervenes,” and rightfully so. At the beginning of the story, young Telemakhos is described as “a boy, daydreaming,” when Athena approaches him (Homer, 1.145-146). Telemakhos is most definitely just a boy; he only wishes that his father would come back and save him and his mother from the despicable suitors. Telemakhos knows that by himself, he doesn’t have the power to change the course of action. Athena, goddess of wisdom and justice, inspires him to confront the suitors and speak his mind.
Why? Shakespeare never tells us. Perhaps Oberon wants to prove his male authority over Titania; perhaps he feels Titania is overindulging the boy and would like to bring discipline into his life. Any explanation the audience comes up with must be based in conjecture, because Shakespeare does not explain Oberon's motivation. No explanation, though, would seem to justify the cruelty Oberon uses in winning the boy away from Titania.
Telemachus: Becoming A Man In The Odyssey, one of the most apparent themes revolved around Telemachus' maturity. The epic started off with Telemachus as a young and defenseless boy in need of a father's guidance to undergo his transformation into a man. However, it was made clear in "Book II," when the process of maturation began, that the absence of Odysseus in Telemachus' life did not present itself as an impossible obstacle that would keep Telemachus from making the change. Although the transformation of manhood occurred throughout the epic, the formation of Odysseus and Telemachus' relationship towards the end of the epic finally helped Telemachus enter the world of true manhood as well as closure and happiness. By "Book II," the epic showed the reader the affects of Odysseus' absence in Telemachus' life.
The gods assist and favor those heroes who uphold their values, but they also hinder them with tribulations when they show lack of regards for their values. It seems as if Zeus always has influence over Odysseus’s fate from the beginning of the epic when Poseidon begins to hinder his attempts to return home. This can be inferred by Zeus when he replies to his daughter Athena’s anxiety for Odysseus’s entrapment on the island of Ogygia by Kalypso by responding to her “My child, what strange remarks you let escape you. Could I forget that kingly man, Odysseus?”(I, 83-84). This shows to be a bit of a clue that Zeus is at ease and in control of Odysseus’s fate.
After Telemakos went on the journey to find his father and helped him fight the suitors, he showed his courageous character. Throughout The Odyssey, Telemakos is a developing character; he begins as a shy and timid young boy, but grows into a very courageous man like his father Odysseus. Odysseus leaves for Troy when Telemakos is an infant. Therefore, Telemakos never had a true father figure to look up to throughout his childhood. However, he did take care of his father’s estate and his mother while Odysseus was gone, but because his mother raised him he wasn’t very outgoing.
In Telemachus' teens and yet childhood, he was sheltered by his mother and also felt that she extremely defensive in regards to her. As a young teen, he couldn’t allow himself to come up with a plan to make his mother’s affiliates leave, however he considers in his spirit that this father is living and will come back successful at some part of time. This is the main persona of Telemachus. Athena’s appearance concerning Telemachus and her connecting the young boy in the arrangement of his acquaintance and friend that she knew, alters the adolescent like teen into a disobedient minor. Telemachus’ expedition aimed at his dad or information about his whereabouts guides him to explore to Pylos and Sparta, the rulers of mutual lands, who apprehended Odyssey in great retrospect and seem to be approachable to Telemachus but fail to assist him in his expedition.
Once he grants Psyche her desire to see her sisters, they plant evil thoughts and her head and raise certain questions, which make Psyche skeptical. She begins to question her love and lets others opinion get the best of her. I don’t understand why she just couldn’t continue living the life she loved along with the man she loved. Subsequently, to the aforementioned I am able to include Propp’s trickery function into the story. Psyche was not only tricked by Venus, the villain, but also by her sisters.
The death of one’s father and a ghostly visitation thereafter are events that would challenge the sanity of anyone. The circumstances of King Hamlet’s death render it especially traumatic. The late King seemed to be an idol to his son; Hamlet looked up to him and aspired to have the same qualities. Hamlet doesn't like King Claudius and sees him as a swindling usurper who has stolen not only the dead King’s throne, but Hamlet’s as well(2.4). Hamlet shows Gertrude that she has lowered her standards by marrying Claudius, When he refers to old Hamlet as, “A combination and a form indeed / Where every god did seem to set his seal” (3.4.55-61).
In the soliloquy, Hamlet is at first upset with himself about finding ways to avoid avenging his Father’s murder, like his spirit in ghost form told him to. This complaining turns into self hatred and then Hamlet is insulting himself outright. The main reason for this is he has agreed to get revenge on Claudius so his father’s spirit can be at peace, but he hasn’t done it yet. The fact that the Player seems to be more able to get into the mindset of revenge than he can further discourages him. This on top of the fact that Hamlet’s dad is dead and his mother married that man he hates most in the world makes for a pretty melancholy fellow.
In addition, Laertes suggests that his sister should remain “chaste” as she would lose her honour if she lost her virginity to Hamlet before marriage, and she would become worthless. In fact, Laertes believes Ophelia should “fear it”; fear Hamlet, as she is “in the morn and liquid dew of youth”, and henceforth more easily corrupted. Ophe! lia’s brother tells her that even “The chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.” Effectively, Ophelia could be the purest girl on earth, but if she allowed somebody to share her body before marriage, this would be enough to destroy her purity forever. Finally, Laertes shares with Ophelia his belief that “Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.” Ultimately, Laertes thinks that young people rebel but will only hurt