Examples Of Perseverance In The Odyssey

Loyalty: Loyalty is most apparent in Penelope's resisting of the suitors, but it is a trait essential to all the characters in Odysseus' family. For twenty years Odysseus never stops wanting to return home. Telemakhos will not send his mother back to her father and force her to choose another husband. Instead, he sets out to find news of his father. The servants Eurykleia and Eumaios are also important exemplars of loyalty. Athena's devotion to Odysseus is another.

The sirens where monsters that made a noise that tricked everyone.Well Odysseus knew this and came up with a great idea.He thought putting ears wax on himself and the ears of his men would help them greatly.Odysseus was right everyone was able to leave safely.(“Plug your oasman with beeswax” pg 678 line

I think that during the story, Odysseus and his men are very loyal to each other because they know that it’s the only way they are probably going to make it back to Ithaca and also Ody’s wife is loyal to him. One example Penelope was loyal to Odysseus was by not marrying the suitors. She had knew that Odysseus would come back. She did not marry any of the suitors and did not do anything with anybody else, she was a loyal character and waited.

Loyalty is an essential value to Odysseus. One way Odysseus was loyal in the story was he stayed loyal to his homeland, Ithaca. Odysseus even said: “Rough years then lie between you and your homecoming, alone and old, the one survivor, all companions lost”(12.107-106). He kept trying to return home and overcame all the obstacles set forth by the Gods and Goddesses. Another example is Penelope, she is loyal to Odysseus by tricking and cunning her way out of remarrying, even after ten years. She stayed faithful, by saying she would remarry once she has finished weaving, but then would unravel her days work at night. Another example of loyalty is when Telemachus goes searching for his father, staying loyal to his family, even though he has never met his father. Telemachus doesn’t even know who Odysseus is but remains faithful to his family and father.

One theme in the Odyssey translated by W.H.D Rouse is staying loyal to family. First, Penelope stays loyal to Odysseus, waiting 20 years for him to come home, “She didn’t break her heart for the husband of her youth! She might have looked after the house till he came back!” (285) Also, Odysseus stays loyal to Penelope. Even though he is forced to sleep with both Calypso, and Nausicaa, he remains in love with Penelope. When he returns, and finally reveals himself to his wife, he cries for only the second time: “Odysseus was even more deeply moved, and his tears ran as he held her in his arms, the wife of his heart, so faithful and so wise”(287). The only other time Odysseus cried, another important moment to Odysseus, was when he revealed himself

getting away and causing him pain was not enough for Odysseus. Odysseus had to go to back

Homer uses metaphor and allusion to reveal the theme of loyalty to family. In the epic poem , The Odyssey, Odysseus is cursed by Poseidon and stranded on Calypso’s island.  His wife, Penelope, never lost hope of his return and refused to marry a suitor.  To delay the suitors, “...she was [there] all day long, working at the great web.”  This metaphor compares Penelope to a spider because they both create a trap to trick others.  Penelope used her intelligence and told the suitors they could marry her after she was finish with the loom to spare time, until her husband returns, this reveals the theme of loyalty to family.  Penelope’s trick is also described when she, “sets up a great wrap on her loom in the mansion.”  The shroud Penelope made

Odysseus was trying to get back home, when he gets into a bind. He needs to get through Scylla and Charybdis. Of course he could go right through the middle, but that would be very difficult to do considering his men

In The Odyssey, loyalty comes into play mainly with Odysseus and Penelope. The loyalty of both characters is tested, but their responses to these tests are very different.

In the book of Odyssey written by Homer, the character archetype that Calypso represents is a clingy but loyal love interest. Calypso provides food and drink for Odysseus because she wants him to be with her. She told him that he could be immortal if he stayed with her, but Odysseus refused. Calypso finally lets go of Odysseus by the command of Hermes, and helps him by giving him a boat. This adds to the plot because some female characters are deceiving, like Circe and the nymphs, but Calypso lets Odysseus go home because she loves him.

Good mortal and immortal women, such as Penelope and Athena, are ones who remain loyal, respect men and their views, and do anything to support the male agenda. In Odysseus’ case, he needs his wife to remain faithful to him, insuring she will still desire him when he

There is yet one more difference between Odysseus and the other two heroes which may help to find the reason why his tale does not end

One way that Homer displays Calypso’s immense love for Odysseus is by having Calypso ask Odysseus to stay with her forever and accept immortality. Evidence for this claim occurs in book five where the angry Calypso shouts to the Gods, “and I welcomed him warmly, cherished him, even vowed to make the man immortal, ageless, all his days…”(Homer pg.156). The dialogue is hollering that

She lets him take a room in their palace until it was safe for him to get back to Penelope and Ithaca. She felt sorry for Odysseus cold, alone, and offered him a stay. When he was able to get out and travel back home is loyalty that his wife has left for him was unreal. She waited to pick a suitor and kept holding off on choosing because she was still holding onto the grudge of him coming home. Not so soon after did she realize that he was already home

She remains faithful in Odysseus’ arms. Penelope was loyal for over twenty years waiting for Odysseus to return