Penelope was the wife of Odysseus who waited over twenty years for him to return home to her. She was loyal and devoted. Penelope was the queen and Odysseus became king by marrying Penelope. She was also an example of the benefit of familial love. Another role Penelope had was to recognize Odysseus. Because Penelope and Odysseus loved one another, their intimacy allowed her to know things about Odysseus that other persons did not know. What she did is extremely important to consider since it really is the basis for society. She could not appeal to force as so often is used to settle differences. Rather she appealed to custom and used her knowledge of custom to influence the suitors. Penelope used the law to protect the vulnerable against the mighty. Penelope uses her knowledge of custom to see that custom is interpreted by the suitors in her favor. One of the points that can be made of the story is that even though women are weaker than men there are tools available to keep them from being overpowered. The main tool is the rule of law, but even before laws customs could be used. Also when men do evil they should be punished, but not so as to start a feud or cycle of vengeance.
Helen has an extraordinary beauty was said to have launched the Greek fleet of a thousand ships to Troy. No woman was so adored and so hated.Helen's adolescent years, the pact between Helen's suitors Helen has mixed feelings because she feels some complicity in her own abduction and realizes how much death and suffering has been the result. That her Trojan husband in not terribly manly compared with his brother or her first husband only increases her feelings of regret. Then towards the end, it showed the death of pretty much everyone especially Paris and that Menelaus took Helen back.
Therefore, if I were to choose a person with a remarkable characteristic. I would choose Penelope. She's an independent woman with pleasant attitude that is very much adorable. She may perhaps appear martyr but is pleasing to God's eye. If this attitude is emulated by many people especially to married couples, broken families and bastard children can be avoided.
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