True Love Never Fades
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. In Homer’s, The Odyssey, the characters of Penelope and Odysseus, who represent that quote, are a faithful married couple that are alike in their methods of defending themselves against enemies through their way of trickery and intelligence. However, Odysseus, not only as a man but because of the Greek culture, is more aggressive than Penelope. Despite differences in forcefulness, Penelope and Odysseus remain similar in their cunning ways, persistence and loyalty, demonstrating how true love that is meant to be will always come out on top.
Though it is evident that Odysseus is the hero of the story, The Odyssey, and his land of Troy,
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This entails how after all that he asked of her, he lures her in with his sweet words and salutations. Just like that, he gets exactly what he needed: food, shelter and a ride home. Odysseus is in a very vulnerable position, needing help and his first instinct is to trick her into providing for him. This speech Odysseus has made may have come off as disrespectful to his marriage, however, it is all part of the plan to get home to her. Penelope on the other hand, is a silent or hidden hero. Since she does not fit to par of a “hero” in Greek society since she is a woman, her cunning acts are subtler since she is expected to be helpless. She first displays her use of metis through trickery with the loom for Laertes. “She set up a great loom in the main hall and started weaving a sizeable fabric with a very fine thread, and she said to us: "Young men-my suitors, since Odysseus is dead-eager as you are to marry me, you must wait until I finish this robe-it would be a shame to waste my spinning-a shroud for the hero Laertes, when death's doom lays him low." (Book 2, 102- 109). Here Antinous’ complaining is portrayed to demonstrate how Penelope’s cunning ways have delayed them for