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Is Penelope Faithful To Odysseus Out Of Fear Or Love

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There has been much debate in the book the Odyssey by the poet Homer if Penelope has been faithful to Odysseus out of fear or love.Now I can say for sure that Penelope has been faithful to Odysseus out of love because a lot of evidence supporting this is good.
The Odyssey is about our main character Odysseus, who after winning the Trojan war has been sailing the seas trying to get home for twenty years, losing all his men and getting home after a long time while Penelope has been trying to fend off the suitors with her maids and slaves. On the book The Odyssey by Homer, the author discusses how Penelope has been waiting this entire time if she has been faithful or not. In the Penelopiad in the first two pages, Penelope discovered the truth after the Odyssey and she stated herself that she had been faithful the entire time and Penelope has been seen time and time again to be good so we can trust her on that. Second look at differently translated version of the Odyssey, in the first and second about Penelope and Telemachus, it shows that Penelope did in fact missed Odysseus.
In the first page in Penelope and Telemachus, a poet called Phemius was singing a song and it upset Penelope because he was singing about Odysseus’s Journey “I miss him all the time that man,My husband whose story is so famous throughout Greece” Another reason that Penelope stay faithful to Odysseus out of love and not fear is when in the Second page of the Penelope and Telemachus text Telemachus yelled
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