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Why does Penelope unravel her weaving?
To delay her remarriage, Penelope tells her suitors that she will not choose a future husband until she has finished weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law. Each day for three years she weaves the shroud, and each evening, unseen, she carefully unweaves it.
What Penelope is weaving?
On Odysseus’s return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. She has devised tricks to delay the suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus’s elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she has finished.
What page in The Odyssey does Penelope weave?
There are three different loci in the Odyssey (Books 2, 19, 24) where the story about Penelope’s strange weaving is recounted. We first hear of the stratagem in Book 2, in Antinoos’s address to the assembly of the Ithacans, the first one to be convoked since Odysseus’s departure.
What is Penelope doing to not finish the tapestry?
For three years, Penelope has put off choosing a husband among the suitors by saying that she must first finish weaving a shroud for Laertes. Penelope is forced to complete the shroud and now has no more excuses to continue delaying her choice.
What is the significance of Penelope?
Origin: Penelope is a Greek name meaning “weaver.” Gender: The name Penelope is most commonly used as a girl name.
How does Penelope change in The Odyssey?
Though she has not seen Odysseus in twenty years, and despite pressure the suitors place on her to remarry, Penelope never loses faith in her husband. Instead, she puts off her decision and leads them on with promises that she will choose a new husband as soon as certain things happen.
What did Penelope tell the suitors she was weaving?
For three years, Penelope has put off choosing a husband among the suitors by saying that she must first finish weaving a shroud for Laertes.
What Eurycleia tells Penelope?
Eurycleia also informed Odysseus which of his servant girls had been unfaithful to Penelope during his absence, conspiring with Penelope’s suitors and becoming their lovers. Among them was Melantho. Later, Eurycleia informed Penelope that Odysseus has returned, but Penelope did not believe the maid.
What does Odysseus say to Penelope to do if he dies?
What does Odysseus say for Penelope to do if he dies? To allow him to die inside of her and for her to remarry and give their son the kingdom.
What drug is Penelope?
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What is short for Penelope?
Nickname(s) Penny, Punky, Pippa, Pip, Nelly. Penelope, derived from the name of Homer’s character, is a female first name.
Why is Penelope upset with Telemachus?
This clash between Penelope and Telemachus was caused by both. Penelope’s fault was that she did not stop to consider Telemachus’ feelings on the subject. She is so engrossed in her own pain for her lost love that she is blind to the problems of her son. She, in her distress, has pushed her son away from her.