Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And The Knight's Tale

These stories prove that the longer a hero is in power, the less heroic they become. The Knight’s Tale depicts a character named Theseus. Theseus is considered by some to be a hero because he helped overthrow bad leadership in many kingdoms, including the land of Athens. After helping Athens, he became their king.

Furthermore, after examining Odysseus, and Everett’s actions we can strongly believe that they can be recognized for their bravery and acts of unselfishness. For instance in Everett’s hometown the group hear a peculiar chanting melody ringing in their ears, and they discover the origin to be a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Stumbling upon this strange gathering they see their comrade Tommy Johnson, the guitarist that they met on their expedition, was being take to the stage to be lynched. Coming to his senses, Everett instantaneously decided to save his companion by disguising himself as a member of the gathering. Creating a distraction among the crowd by cutting the ropes of the burning cross he led his friend to safety, and fled with his troop. Similarly Odysseus’ returning home from his long journey had to confront the suitors who were challenging each other to win his wife, Queen Penelope. Odysseus was assumed dead by the suitors, and when he reveals himself at his palace the suitor beg for mercy. Odysseus in rage does not forgive the suitors who tried taking his throne, but instead he fearlessly said “When all are gone if I’m alone they can dislodge me.” Odysseus fought the suitors with all

Later, Eurycleia washes Odysseus’s feet and notices his scar. She realizes it’s Odysseus right away, but Odysseus pleads her to keep himself a secret. Then, Penelope decides to marry the man who could shoot an arrow through holes of 12 axes.

This pales in comparison to Penelope’s twenty year wait for her husbands return, while suitors attempt to wed her every day for three of those years. She is a “poor lady, / still in the women’s hall. Her nights and days / are wearied out with grieving” (XVI, 46 - 48). Penelope is also waiting to become a wife again; Odysseus's return is a catalyst for her liberation from the removed, distant queen facade she must maintain in order to fight off the suitors. Additionally, when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, enters the palace, Penelope sends Eumaeus to retrieve the beggar for questioning about Odysseus. The beggar tells Penelope to “be patient, wait… till darkness falls”(XVII, 764), and “she accepted what had been proposed” (XVII,

Antonius had hoped that Penelope would choose him over the other suitors. He was the first suitor to be killed by arrow to the throat. Telemachus warned them to leave; Theoklymenos also warned the wooers but they didn’t listen. Everyone was punished rightfully except the maids.

Though the Greek hero overcomes many hardships in his twenty-year journey back, he shows no mercy to the young women who slept with the suitors. Heroes, who are expected to be the gleaming, godlike examples for humanity to aspire to, should not penalize miscreants with death. Instead, like Apollo required Hercules to perform twelve labors, Odysseus might punish the maids with difficult intellectual or physical tasks or actually forgive them of their ‘sins’. The ‘hero’ also spares no thought to the fact that the maids are forced into sexual relations with the suitors, rather than being willing participants in them. Time and again, Homer establishes the unruly behavior of the suitors, who “after [putting] aside desire for food and drink…set their minds on other pleasures,” making a sly reference to their harassment of the maids who carouse with them (82). Yet, Odysseus still refuses to acknowledge the result of coercion that clearly merits forgiveness. Furthermore, the maids are unmarried, but Odysseus sees their relationships as a breach of his own relationship with the maids, though he was not reluctant to have adulterous sex with Circe. Odysseus “[mounts] Circe’s gorgeous bed,” quickly, and without any visible qualms (241). While readers might argue that Odysseus needed to sleep with Circe in order to return home to Ithaca, his maids, and ever-faithful Penelope, Odysseus exhibits tells that show he in fact, wanted to stay in Aeaea amid his comrades, “feasting on sides of meat and drafts of heady wine” until a year “had run its course”

Agamemnon was stabbed to death by the vengeful tag-team. Agamemnon’s son, Orestes, unleashed vengeance upon his mother and her lover. Agamemnon’s family is a foil for Odysseus’ family life. Odysseus’ family loves him very dearly and has done no wrong as he was away. Penelope, unlike Clytemnestra, stays loyal to Odysseus and even creates an ingenious plan to keep the suitors off her back. Telemachos on the other hand has to deal with the suitors who are trying to marry his mother and have been dishonoring his father, Odysseus, eating their fill since they sat their butts on the stools they deem as weapons. Telemachos can’t even stand up to the suitors as Agamemnon’s son took revenge on the people who killed his father. This shows how Telemachos should be as a son and will soon be as he grows up to be more like his father. Menelaos had a long homecoming due to the gods, just as Odysseus had. Menelaos angered the Egyptian gods, due to the lack of knowledge of Egyptian customs. He was able to get home with all of his crew, unlike Odysseus, who was a lone survivor. Although Menelaos had an easier homecoming than Odysseus, he did not have a faithful wife, just like Agamemnon. Helen was the reason for the Trojan War; for Menelaos it was not easy to forgive an unfaithful wife to that degree. He cannot rejoin the present as easily due to all that was lost in Troy, destined to be full of grief for

The Odyssey: Odysseus’s Justification Hammurabi’s code states, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” An ancient system of justice basically saying you get what you deserve. Everyone knows the classic revenge story; the protagonist is disrespected or hurt by the antagonist, and will eventually exact their revenge. In Homer’s The Odyssey, revenge is precisely what Odysseus carries out.

In The Suitors Odysseus comes back from his journey to find an abundance of suitors in his home trying to take his wife who has been continuously loyal through the 10 years he was away. Shortly after Odysseus returns, Penelope retrieves his bow out of the storeroom and reports that she will wed the suitor who can string it and afterward shoot an arrow through a line of twelve axes. All of the suitors fail to do and then Odysseus with ease, strings the bow and sends an arrow and completes the task , shooting the arrow through all twelve axes. Odysseus then grabs another arrow and proceeds to shoot a second arrow through the throat of Antinous, and the killing of the suitors commenced. Odysseus actions were justified because all of the suitors got what they deserved trying to take his women and all else that belonged to him, the severity of the punishment was rather high but was what seemed fit to an man seeing others trying to take what is his.

Our first introduction of Ariadne is of her abandonment by Theseus. Ariadne looks on as Theseus abandons her on the island “ bearing wild furies in the heart.”

On Odysseus’ journey to Ithaca, him and his men suffer various punishments that were brought upon them by the gods and goddesses. When Odysseus returns back to Ithaca after all of his men are killed, he has to win Penelope, his wife, over by being challenged against the suitors.

Odysseus reveals his identity to two loyal servants and he gives them orders to look after Penelope. In this exchange, we can see Odysseus compassion for others who are socially inferior to him, such as his servants. After countless attempts of stringing the bow to no avail by the suitors, Odysseus disguised as the beggar, asks for a chance. With no effort, he strings the weapon and it flies through the straight row of twelve axes. With Odysseus’ rightful place in sight, he begins to kill the suitors with Telemachus and his two loyal servants while announcing his identity. He calls for Eurycleia, his old nurse. As a witness of the bodies that lay, she starts to sing a hymn of triumph, but he abruptly rebukes her, claiming it was disrespectful to express joy and delight over the dead. Odysseus asks her to list the maidservants who were disloyal and she names twelve of them. They are punished by cleaning the aftermath of battle and later hanged. This act emphasizes the significance of loyalty. Although Odysseus was greatly outnumbered during the battle with the suitors, it re-establishes and represents Odysseus’ capability to be King because of his courage and mastery of patience as evidence with his carefully thought out plan to seek

Emily was a very stubborn and hard headed woman throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, Emily was a young lady who lived at home with her father. He had no intentions of allowing any man to marry his daughter so any man who ever came to the house to call upon his daughter was ran off before they could even get one foot onto the porch.

In this paragraph you will learn what happened to Odysseus. The Gods casted him to the islands of Ogygia and a Calypso keep him there for 8 years. His wife Penelope was forced to find someone else to marry. Wooers from all around the world came to her castle and stayed there in till she picked one of them to marry. She keep stalling for 3 years. On the 4 year she got caught, So she made this impossible task and who ever passed it would marry her. But Odysseus finally escaped and came back and fought for her and killed anyone who betrayed and dishonor him.

Introduced as “a conqueror…greater” than any other “beneath the sun,” Thesëus, the wise and chivalrous lord Athens, is a merciful and noble duke (Chaucer 24). As a wise and noble leader, Thesëus, with a “heart of pity,” mends the ailments of his people, “ as he [is] a true knight.” (26).