Literature
In the great book The Odyssey, family, loyalty and faithfulness are issues that come up often
throughout the epic story. We encounter family between father and son, faithfulness between wife and husband, and between the gods and man. We experience loyalty also between father and son, and a lack of loyalty between wife and husband.
To me the ultimate example of family, loyalty and faithfulness is between Odysseus, Telemachus and Penelope. Throughout the entire epic these three never once strayed from one another, always kept hope and never turned on each other. Penelope is faced with twenty years of suffering when Odysseus is away from Ithaca, and yet she kept the faith for all twenty years. When faced by all the suitors that wanted to marry her, Penelope devised a plan to keep them away from her. She said she would marry one when she was finished making the quilt. She would quilt and then undo the quilt to delay her having to choose a suitor. The whole time she kept......
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