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Prompt: In the first four books, we are also introduced to Telemachus' mother and Odysseus' wife, Penelope. Using textual evidence, discuss her role in the story so far.


     In the first four books Penelope, Odysseus’ wife is introduced to the audience. Throughout the book Penelope is very sad and depressed due to her missing husband. On page 66 the book states, “So the old nurse soothed Penelope's grief and let her eyes dry.” This quote means that she is sad throughout the first 4 books. I feel like Penelope was a character who was a motivation to many of the people in the book. Telemachus’ motivation to find his dad was driven by the Gods as well as the motivation to keep his travels secret from people was partially because he was trying to prevent his mother from becoming more sad. The suitor’s motivation to stay at Odysseus’ house is clearly that all of them want to marry Penelope.  They also enjoy using Odysseus's resources instead of their own. The reason why Odysseus want to come home is because he longs for his wife and he want to just be home in general.

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