In the Homecoming of Odysseus, Odysseus wants revenge on the suitors. One of the suitors recites the story of the courtship of Penelope, her resistance to the suitors, and Odysseus’ revenge. He wants the revenge because he when he came back home from his journey which took him 20 years, he finds that his house is full of suitors and they are taking everything that he earned. The other reason he wanted revenge was because Penelope that that he was dead and the suitors were going to replace him. Penelope said, “All my comeliness and my good looks are gone; the immortals took them from me when the army embarked for the war, and my husband with them. If that man would return and care for me, my name and fame would be better for it.” Penelope also stated, “These men are in a great hurry, but I wind my schemes on my distaff. First there was the shroud. Some kind spirit put it into my head to set up a web on my loom, a great web of my finest thread. Then I said to them, ‘My good young men, you want me for a wife now Odysseus is dead, and you are in a hurry.” So Odysseus wanted to show the suitors that he isn’t dead for he is alive. …show more content…
He knew that no one could string his bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axes. The next day he got ready for when his turn came he took off the dirty old rags and had sturdy thighs, and strong arms and