The Odyssey

One part of the odyssey that has stuck out a lot to me is the strong female character that Penelope plays. She shows that she is able to handle herself while her husband is gone. This is shown when Penelope tells the suitors that when she is done knitting she will chose one of the suitors to become her husband. Then later you find out every night she was undoing the progress of what she was making to stall having to chose a suitor. I was over all very impressed by the way Homer portrayed Penelope and the way she carried herself throughout all the struggles her life threw a her. Some people would say Penelope showed weakness when she was crying or how she was sad during the book. However, I found it powerful how she was so sad and going through so much and was still able to push through and not give in to the suitors or act rude towards anyone.

In Book 17, there is a lot of foreshadowing of what will happen to the suitors. Find three examples of this (quote them in your post), and explain what you think this means for the fate of the suitors.

There are many times where the future of the suitors is brought up in book seven. The quotes seem to be predicting the death of the suitors. The first quote is, "sowing death for the suitors." That quote seems to be saying something along the lines of planning the suitors death. The next quote is from the part of book seven where Odysseus was going to ask the suitors for food to see which one of them was a decent person. Then Odysseus said, "Not that the goddess had the slightest intention of sparing any of them." That quote was saying that even if there was a decent suitor Athena was still not going of spare any of them from her punishment. The last quote is, "That means death will surely come to the suitors." That quote was from when Telemachus sneezed and that was a sign to Penelope that death would come to the suitors.