Tuesday, March 15, 2011

so there's this woman with different worlds and values in life .

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.


HELEN 

PENELOPE



Friday, March 11, 2011

love one not two . love three not four . or everything else will fall . :>

HELEN OF TROY is quite possibly one of the most inspired characters of all time. The first time that Helen and Paris had ever interacted, their childhood paths were unmistakably similar. This was due to the fact that the gods had been intervening in their lives from their births, as they foresaw the destruction that would soon be caused by their union. She has been seen as the type of woman that all women should hate and yet envy and all men should fear and yet desire. The power that her extraordinary beauty had on men is undeniable. However, when one looks at the words that she spoke and the actions she took, and considers the role of  the gods in Greek Literature, one has to consider another side of her. Helen's flight to Troy with Paris was not of her own decision, and was greatly influenced by the will of Aphrodite and Zeus. Her feelings that is vividly described in the story was extremely remorseful for the suffering that she caused. But as a sign of formality Helen shouldn't be with Paris. She is already a married woman to Menelaus. Her duty right now is to make herself worthy to her husband. She goes against the laws of marriage. The gods also has its own big part of the story schemes. If they hadn't intervened with the situation this war will never happen. They make it so unrealistic. Love is not just the fate itself but the time you had with each other. God's will for it to be possible also. We can't just depend on the destiny itself. But for the things you've done for the one you loved.