Another reason would be to show how Penelope is loyal to Odysseus while he’s away for so long, it shows how the women were loyal to their men if they loved him. It makes the audience/reader wonder whether Odysseus will be loyal while he is away. She could’ve be mischievous but she isn’t because this was expected of her to her be loyal, however Agamemnon’s wife was not faithful when he was away and killed Agamemnon, this story is shown to show the reader Penelope is a good character and Odysseus must be special and the love of her life if she’s been so loyal. You can see how Odysseus is the head of the house (Kyrios) and should control Xenia but because he is not in the home, the suitors take control. Another reason would be to show display crime and punishment.
Having a good idea of the Odyssey myth, when hearing the story, the Greek audience will already know that Penelope is a faithful wife. She loves Odysseus will all her heart and cries every night for his safe return. They will know that she is a ‘faithful woman’, which to some men at the time may seem as an oxymoron, because the majority of the women who are represented in plays are often, like Clytemnestra, evil and devious. I think that Greek audiences may be suspicious of Penelope for this fact and they may feel that her intentions are not all that they seem. She may be putting on a façade of love for her husband out of detest for the Suitors that are after her hand in marriage.
Then they meet, fall in love and get married. Romeo is more impulsive and doesn’t think where Juliet is smarter about and thinks about things. But in the end love and fate triumphs and they die for each other causing their ancient family feud to
THE BATTLE OF THE BLACK BULL BLOOD CASTLE Long, long ago there were two beautiful princesses and their mother living together in their castle. Many princes came from far and wide to take a princess’s hand in marriage. So far all of them had failed. Then a prince came from a far away land. They had never heard of him before.
The Role of Women in “The Odyssey” It seems if it weren’t for women in Homer’s The Odyssey all forms of empathy, love, war, or compassion wouldn’t exist. Although women held an entirely different position in society compared to men, they too held influence and power. “The Odyssey” revolves around Odysseus’ quest to return home to Ithaca and back to his wife Penelope, which has been overrun by suitors. Within the poem there are three basic types of women the goddess, the seductress, and the good hostess/wife. Each role adds a different element and is essential to the telling of the story.
Without the option of saying no, Nujood weds the man her father has sold her to and was taken to live with him and his sisters. This is where Nujood began to suffer more physical, emotional and psychological abuse than most adults could ever imagine in a lifetime. Nujood was raped almost daily and cried out for her family, only to be ignored and hit by her new “family”. Finally, after crying out and wearing on her husband’s nerves by her refusal to be ignored, Nujood was granted permission to visit her family in Sanas where her long awaited escape suddenly seemed possible. I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced illustrates
has in his group. During a brief time in the movie a black guitarist also tours with the men, his name is Tommy Johnson. Finally returning home, each mans wife is involved with the suitor(s) who are trying to marry each of the two wives. Odysseus’ wife is very loyal to him; she waits twenty long years and still doesn’t ever consider marrying one of those suitors. Penelope has to trick the thirty suitors staying in her house but she never falls in for their trickery.
Stella is willing to look past everything Stanley does because she loves him and that makes her the fool of the play. After finding out Stanley raped her sister she still chooses Stanley though she asks herself “what have I done to my sister?” Stella is so stuck on her life as it is that she’s not willing to accept that Stanley is not the man she once deceived herself he was and that internal conflict is what makes her a huge
Either she was too weak to figure out her situation, or a lifetime of having everything handed to her made her simply not want to. Tom and Daisy left the very next day. And through how a stressed Daisy ran over Tom's mistress, Myrtle, causing her husband, George Wilson, to shoot Gatsby out of grief and confusion, it caused his death too. It still wouldn't have mattered if he hadn't died-Daisy and Tom still would've left. His dream of reliving the past was all he really had.
Pattyn’s Father blames himself for his past and drowns his guilt in liquor, making him an alcoholic. One who beats Pattyn’s mother, who believes women must succumb to their husband’s actions. Her mother believes her duty is to bear as many children as possible, especially a boy to carry on the family name. But so far Pattyn’s mother has only conceived 7 girls named after famous military generals. Pattyn, being unable to take the stress of home, begins to question her role in life, especially through her father’s eyes.