Penelope: Loving, Mournful, And Coldhearted?
Penelope seems to be a female version of Odysseus in many aspects. Upon comparing her to the other female characters in The Odyssey, it is not hard to tell that her beauty and intelligence are surpassed by only Circe and Calypso, if not equal to them. It is also admirable that she is tremendously mournful about Odysseus’s “death”, and staves off being wedded to one of the many suitors eating her out of house and home. In the opening chapters of The Odyssey Penelope is angry, frustrated, and helpless. She misses her husband, Odysseus. She worries about the safety of her son, Telemachos. Her house is overrun with arrogant
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