Have you ever thought how cool woman is? It's like they have magical powers. They can take control of almost anything, even if you don’t exactly want them to. They have a tone of voice that can stop disputes between siblings. They have the way to make the room go silent with just a look. They have the power to heal when someone is hurt. And with age they become more powerful they bring people together and the start relationships with complete strangers. How powerful they are is mind-blowing.
In the book, The Odyssey by Homer, the woman in the book is all very powerful in similar, yet very different ways. Females play the antagonist role in the book, which reveals the standards of gender in Greek culture; while the females are created to seem
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They talked about their journeys and where Agamemnon mentioned that his wife gave in to the suitors and when he returned from the war his wife killed him. Before Odysseus continued on, Agamemnon gave him some advice on who to trust: “Let it be a warning even to you. Indulge a woman never, and never tell her all you know. Some things a man may tell, some he should cover up. Not that I see a risk for you, Odysseus of death at your wife's hands. She is too wise, too clear-eyed, sees an alternative to well” (XI. 514-20). He was trying to tell Odysseus that women are untrustworthy and manipulative based on his experience with his wife who was loyal and deceiving. But he never made a point on how this was also to do with the suitors he completely blamed it on his wife. This was an unfair relation because the suitors had just as much of a part in this as his wife. And Odysseus’ wife is loyal, and she is turning down the suitors, unlike Agamemnon’s wife Klytaimnestra, who clearly was unloyal. It is unfair that if one person does something that the reputation is put on to others for no reason at all, and that happens a lot in this