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The princesses Nausikaa likes odysseus and offers him stay at her palace.... There, his men disobeyed odysseus and touched the oxen.... Recognizing the resemblance of the beggar with Odysseus, whom she presumes to be dead, Penelope plans a contest wherein she agrees to marry a suitor that strings the great bow of odysseus and is also able to shoot an arrow from twelve axeheads.... odysseus and Penelope reunite and by winning over his once lost kingdom and wife, Odysseus proves to her that he is not a charlatan....
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Three Heroes, a Similar journey The history of literature is interconnected with the origin, growth and development of epic poems, through ages.... The work Beowulf by an anonymous author focuses upon the hero's (Beowulf) journey and his fight with enemies.... On the other side, the work Gilgamesh by an anonymous author portrays the hero's adventurous journey with his companion to find out the possibility of eternal life.... The work The Odyssey unveils the adventurous life of Odysseus the hero, and his journey towards homeland....
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"Telemachos' heroic journey is exactly the opposite of his father Odysseus'.... Odysseus makes mistakes, though being a hero, on his return home, while Telemachos makes no mistakes on his journey abroad.... Athena and Zeus motivated Telemachos to pursue his adulthood journey by unravelling the mystery behind his father's disappearance.... Telemachos heroic journey was exactly the opposite of his fathers.... However, as a young man and a son of a hero, his journey was different but worthy because in the end, both men emerged heroes (Cooper 24)....
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The paper "The Journey of odysseus and telemachus" describes that even without Odysseus, his son Telemachus was able to pull himself together and become someone like his father.... He left Penelope and telemachus against his will.... Some of the monsters that odysseus and his team encountered are the Lotus-eaters, the giant Cyclops Polyphemus, and the cannibals known as Laestrygons.... The Phaeacians took pity on odysseus and helped him go back....
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This poem focuses on the three central characters namely telemachus, Ulysses (telemachus' father) and Penelope (telemachus' mother).... The most important character among them is Penelope the mother of telemachus and the faithful wife of Odysseus.... nd in the end, Homer describes that Odysseus honors her faithful wife by killing all the suitors and begins ruling his kingdom wisely along with telemachus (Murnaghan, 1986)....
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his speech marks the beginning of Telemachus' journey as he matures to become a leader just like his father.... his excerpt is a speech which is given by telemachus to the council of all the men of Ithaca to urge them to take away his mother's suitors from his home as they were abusing the generosity of their hospitality as they were slaughtering more cattle and sheep everyday as Penelope could not make a choice of who to marry.... This meeting was the first since his father disappeared and according to Aegyptius, who is a wise Ithacan elder, telemachus is ready to fit into his father's shoes....
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The author reveals Homer as a hero struggling in a crucial journey with the son Telemachos.... The most remarkable area is the Roland's and Odyssey's view of a journey as a maturation metaphor.... The two artistic works utilizes varied styles such as journey metaphors, repetition, imagery, satire, and irony to attract the audience.... n his article to explore Odyssey as means of maturation, Chen (2010) acknowledges that a journey is always full of tribulations and obstacles....
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It forms a core aspect of Christianity as it traces the journey of mankind and underlines the supremacy of God, Yahweh.... This paper considers roles of men and women in three different sources.... Gilgamesh, The Odyssey and the Hebrew Bible-Roles of Men and Women were developed independently, and thus represents different lifestyles in different contexts....
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