Table of Contents
- 1 Why was killing the suitors justified?
- 2 Was Odysseus killing the suitors justified?
- 3 How did the suitors disrespect Penelope?
- 4 What was Penelope’s test to make sure Odysseus was really Odysseus and how did he pass it *?
- 5 What reasons does Odysseus give for taking revenge on the suitors do you think Odysseus kills the suitors to fulfill his responsibilities are his actions justified?
- 6 What is Penelope’s ultimatum to the suitors?
- 7 How did Penelope trick the suitors?
- 8 What reasons does Penelope give Odysseus for having tested him in this way?
- 9 How do the suitors of Odysseus deserve to die?
- 10 Do the gods approve of the suitors’ deaths?
Why was killing the suitors justified?
With the support of Athena, his friends, and his son Telemachus, he kills all the suitors. In Homer’s epic, the slaughter of suitors is depicted as a justified action. The suitors personify lawlessness, savagery, and self-indulgence. Odysseus battles them to restore law and show his obedience to the gods.
Was Odysseus killing the suitors justified?
In addition to having the justification in order to kill the suitors he also was justified to kill the maids. All they did was aide the suitors. They made no effort to get the suitors out of the house. This is why Odysseus was justified to kill them.
What are Penelope’s suitors hoping to achieve?
But then Penelope’s ruse was discovered and the suitors demanded a decision. She came up with another ruse, an archery contest. She would marry whoever could string Odysseus’s bow and fire it through 12 axes. The bow once belonged to the archer Eurytus, grandson of Apollo, and no one, she hoped, could wield it.
How did the suitors disrespect Penelope?
Upon learning of her tactic, the suitors demanded Penelope choose her husband among them. The suitors displayed bad behavior in Odysseus’ home. They drank wine and ate his food. Telemachus, Odysseus’s son, who had grown up into a young man, was extremely frustrated with the suitors’ bad behavior.
What was Penelope’s test to make sure Odysseus was really Odysseus and how did he pass it *?
When Odysseus returns, Penelope doesn’t recognize him and cannot be sure that Odysseus is really who he says he is. She tests Odysseus by ordering her servant Eurycleia to move their marriage bed. Odysseus gets angry.
What do you think of his killing of those who embraced his knees and begged for mercy?
What do you think of Odysseus’ killing of the suitors? Is it justified? What do you think of his killing of those who embraced his knees and begged for mercy? It could be considered justified because they tormented Penelope, Odysseus’s wife.
What reasons does Odysseus give for taking revenge on the suitors do you think Odysseus kills the suitors to fulfill his responsibilities are his actions justified?
What reasons does Odysseus give his taking revenge on the suitors? They were trying to take his wife, land, and his son. Why do you think Odysseus reacts so intensely? Because he is angry with them, and he is defending his family in his honor.
What is Penelope’s ultimatum to the suitors?
Penelope gets Odysseus’s bow out of the storeroom and announces that she will marry the suitor who can string it and then shoot an arrow through a line of twelve axes.
What is Penelope’s challenge to the suitors?
When Telemachus is an adult, Odysseus returns disguised as a beggar. He beats Penelope’s challenge for the suitors, which was that whoever can string Odysseus’s bow and shoot it through 12 axe handles can have her hand i marrige.
How did Penelope trick the suitors?
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 reasons does Penelope give Odysseus for having tested him in this way?
What reason does Penelope give Odysseus for have tested him? She blames the gods for taking Odysseus and she doesn’t trust them. To what does Homer compare the way Odysseus has longed for his wife? A musician playing the harp.
How did Odysseus deal with the suitors of Penelope?
The suitors steal and plunder Odysseus’ hall, feast on his food, take his maids to bed and all the while, each trying to take Penelope’s hand in marriage.1 When Odysseus returns, he knows all about the suitors, and schematically kills all of them with no mercy.
How do the suitors of Odysseus deserve to die?
Also, the suitors prayed to the gods multiple times, but no god seemed to pity them whatsoever, Odysseus is justified in the gods’ opinions. In conclusion, the Greek worldview presents the suitors as evil societal transgressors who logically and divinely deserve to die.
Do the gods approve of the suitors’ deaths?
To further the argument more, we can now prove that the gods approve of the suitors’ deaths. The gods are a very influential part of the Greek worldview, and if they all side with Odysseus, than that is some good evidence that Odysseus is justified in the Greek worldview. First of all, Athena is with Odysseus for killing the wicked suitors.