![]() ![]() With eyes brimming tears she ran to him, throwing her arms around his neck, and kissed him. “Their secret! as she heard it told, her knees grew tremulous and weak, her heart failed her. ![]() Would that I were son to one who had grown. There is our pact and pledge, our secret sign, built into that bed - my handiwork and no one else’s!” Many readers of the Odyssey want Penelope, Odysseus’ strong-willed wife, to fit the ideal of an empowered woman. My mother, answered Telemachus, tells me I am son to Odysseus, but it is a wise child that knows his own father. silky, soft, the glint of the sun itself. No mortal in his best days could budge it with a crowbar. Athena appreciates his cunning, recognizing her own craftiness in her favorite mortal. Hope and loyalty are rewarded in the end - The characters learn these lessons in the endġ1 Significant Passages - “Woman, by heaven you’ve stung me now! Who dared to move my bed? No builder had the skill for that - unless a god came down to turn the trick. Society: She has to relearn how to trust people, as she had to harden against the world so she wouldn't be tricked by the suitorsĨ Odysseus’ Motivation - Odysseus is finally home but he must regain Penelope’s trust so they can become a family again and I will tell the world at once how freely. Sing that for me true to life as it deserves. good Odysseus brought one day to the heights of Troy, filled with fighting men who laid the city waste. Such a detail was never included in Odysseus’s version of the tale. Penelope - Odysseus’ wife queen of Ithaca - Eurycleia - Penelope’s servant - Telemachus - Son of Odysseus and PenelopeĦ Conflict - Penelope vs. Epeus built with Athena’s help, the cunning trap that. In this quote, Penelope notes that in Helen’s version of the same story, the brothers became so faint with awe whenever they were presented with her beauty that they could only apologize to her and beg for her forgiveness. Presentation on theme: "Penelope’s Tests By: Ean Waetjen."- Presentation transcript:Ģ Background - Odysseus killed Antinous, Eurymachus and the rest of the suitors - Telemachus tells his father to spare the bard Phemius and the herald Medonģ Summary - Odysseus reveals himself to Penelope, but she suspects him of being someone else in disguise - She tests him by telling Eurycleia “Place it outside the bedchamber my lord built with his own hands.” - Odysseus then gets angry as he knows that Penelope knows that no one can move the bed as it is carved from an olive treeĥ Characters - Odysseus - The hero of the story king of Ithaca
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