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    “Mother I have great news to tell. Father has come back mother. He is here and defeated all the suitors when he shoot the bow,” Telemachus said with a cheering voice. Penelope broke into tears of joy and told Telemachus to tell her every detail that happened. Telemachus started and he knew that he was going to be sitting there for a long time. Telemachus started when his father told him the plan and how they will defeat more every single man that there was and how he shot the bow when nobody else

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    Telemachus was treated poorly by the wooers. The wooers would tease and make fun of him because the wooers wouldn’t believe him about the god’s wrath. The wooers would always laugh at Telemachus threats. No matter what Telemachus would say or warn, the wooers would laugh in his face. So Penelope, his mother, played a trick on them to make the wooers stop teasing Him. But unfortunately the wooers never stopped teasing and disbelieving. Odysseus’ absence caused him to step up into his place. Telemachus

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    Telemachus couldn't do a lot of things that other children does since he was a prince and had to take care of his mom since his dad wasn’t there for them. So they could do was worry about their father until the day he came back and keep protecting their power to stay in charge of the kingdom. Queen Penelope had to keep coming up with smart to buy time until Odesses came back to reclaim the throne. In The Odyssey Queen Penelope made a knitting for her family for those who are about to die, but every

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    The Various Relationships Between Telemachus and Others in his Household Vanesa Martinez-Chacon In the Odyssey Telemachus has varying relationships with his mother, Penelope, the suitors, and his nurse, Eurycleia; a mother and son but also head of household and subordinate member of the household, a young boy and superior men, and a son and mother but also a master and servant. In the poem, Telemachus must find out what became of his father, Odysseus, who never returned home from the Trojan war

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    in the epic, the Odyssey by Homer, women are depicted as loyal, persevering, supportive. Homer depicts Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, as loyal by showing her pine for Odysseus even though he is rumored by many to be dead. Next is Calypso, a woman who wants Odysseus to be her husband so bad, that she keeps him hostage as a form of her perseverance. Lastly, Homer shows Athena, the goddess of wisdom, as a supportive character to Telemachus in more than one way. Homer wrote the Odyssey, against normal stereotypes

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    Talia Regan 05.29.13 Social Structure in Homer 's 'Odyssey ' Homer 's epic, 'The Odyssey ', is a lengthy poem that recounts the Trojan war hero, Odysseus ' arduous and protracted journey home to Ithaca. In it, Homer accentuates the somewhat feudal nature of his world, a societal structure that far more resembles his own than that which actually existed in Mycenaean Greece, less to supplement the story, but rather to serve as the primary focus. Despite the feudal qualities of the world that

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    It’s been 10 years since the Trojan war ended and Odysseus has still not returned to his kingdom. The suitors have decided to get Penelope married but she is faithful to Odysseus and refuses. Their son, Prince Telemachus wants to get rid of them but he doesn’t have the confidence or experience to do so. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the prince. Odysseus is still alive and a beautiful nymph named Calypso has captured him and fallen in love with him and is keeping him on her

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    Elizabeth Minchin’s “The Expression of Sarcasm in the ‘Odyssey’”, published in 2010, analyzes Homer’s usage of sarcasm in the “Odyssey” and explains its significance. Minchin’s critical analysis peaked my interest specifically because it studies not only the expression, but the reception of sarcasm as seen in the “Odyssey”. Minchin suggests that in lines 397-399 of Book XVII, when Telemachus tells Antinous “…Antinous, as a father of his son you take good care/ of me, when you tell our stranger

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    The Odyssey is known to be a one of the greatest epic poems written during the 8th century BC Homer’s epic poem contains stories about Odysseus journey of returning home. However, it is not just about Odysseus’s journey back home but, his son Telemachus who finds out that his father is alive and in order for Telemachus to find his father. He must develop himself to become like his father because his father is known for being a man who is cunning, strong, well crafted, and responsible. In book 2 of

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    author of The Odyssey, displays Penelope’s intelligence by revealing her sagacious plan about the shroud. Secretly, she unweaves the shroud every night to prevent herself from getting married to one of the suitors, whilst waiting upon the return of Odysseus. The event proves Penelope’s loyalty to her husband, even while the protagonist remains lost at sea. In addition to Penelope’s loyalty, Telemachus fights beside his father against the suitors and Athena guides Odysseus home. The Odyssey, explains

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