Dorothy Penelope In The Odyssey

The Odyssey is an epic style of myths that have been around for thousands of years shaping the way of literature. For example, in The Odyssey Odysseus leaves his kingdom for 20 years to fight in the Trojan War and goes through a series of trials to return home. All the while, his wife Penelope continued to stay working very determinedly while her love Odysseus was away at sea, even though desperate suitors were trying to forcibly make Penelope their wife so that they could rule the kingdom. Penelope outsmarted the suitors by saying that she wouldn’t marry until she finished weaving a shroud; all the while, she was weaving and unweaving the shroud every night. This teaches us that Penelope is being brave even though people do not recognize her

Dorothy had written at the end of the poem“brew my tea, and snip my thread; Bleach the linen for my bed (lines 8-9). The actions described were things Penelope were doing instead of being depressed like most women would be when their loved one were away. By Penelope carrying out those actions it shows hidden bravery behind them. Dorothy uses sentences such as “He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave” ( lines 4-5). In those lines it is describing how Penelope is thinking about Odysseus but she is saying it in a sort of mockish way. Penelope says those things in a mock type of way because she was jealous of Odysseus because people would call him brave because of those actions but not call her brave with her own actions. “They will call him brave.”(line 10). Penelope believed what she was achieving while Odysseus was away was brave as well. Penelope describing the tasks she was doing shows us the point of view she

Dorothy was born in the west end of New Jersey in 1893(“Dorothy Parker”Britannica School). She was born to J. Henry and Elizabeth Rothschild(“Dorothy Parker” Poets.org). Dorothy had an unfortunate life full of tragic events “Both her mother and stepmother died when she was young; her uncle, Martin Rothschild, went down on the Titanic in 1912 and her father died the following year” (“Dorothy Parker” Poets.org). Dorothy was always interested in Poetry and writing in school but unexpectedly her passage to education was put to a stop. At the age of only fourteen, she was motivated to produce her first poem ever to a magazine company called Vanity Fair when she was only twenty-two (“Dorothy Parker” Poets.org). One of Dorothy’s most famous stories was “Big Blondie” which was about a very compassionate account of an aging girl (“Dorothy Parker”, Britannica School). Some of Dorothy's other famous poems were called “Sunset Gun” and “Death and Taxes” (“Dorothy Parker”, poets.org). Dorothy soon got a job with the famous magazine company Vogue but she only worked there for a full year. She then decided to move to a bigger magazine Vanity Fair to become a drama writer (“Dorothy Parker, Britannica School). Dorothy was a very truthful and powerful type of poet, she was such a honest writer that the magazine she was working for discharged her from her writing duties because of