Suitors In The Odyssey

In Ithaca, the suitors are looking to marry Penelope, Telemachus’ mother. Penelope’s husband, Odysseus, has not been found after the Trojan War, and Athena reminds Telemachus about his father. While Odysseus and Athena are planning, the suitors argue about who is the special one to marry Penelope. The suitors also threaten Telemachus by telling him to exile her mother from his house or make his mom marry one of them. Odysseus’s son decides to set out on sea and find people, who can lead him to Odysseus. There is one obstacle left which is to persuade the suitors about his compromise. The next day, the suitors keep on arguing until Telemachus becomes tired of all the appeals and arguments from them, and he decides to assemble them. Telemachus has Mentor by his side, but he is a disguise for Athena. At first, Telemachus stands strong in telling his step by step plan, but he lets his emotions come in the way after the suitors starts disagreeing again. His emotions tells that …show more content…
Telemachus responds back to Atinoos, but he complains and whines about how he doesn’t have power against the suitors. Telemachus tries to empathize Atinoos by telling him that “isn’t it enough that you could strip my house,” when he was young and powerless (2.229-230). What Telemachus is really tired of is that he has lost power against the suitors. He is asking for mercy, and he is now pleading to them. The tone shifts after a sentence, and Telemachus wants to, “bring back doom upon,” the suitors if he can (2.333). Telemachus shows that he is angry, but it seems pathetic because he ended with, “if I can. He is out of options, and he has nothing to do but to let out all his emotions. He ends his speech saying that it suits the men, “that I have none,” of the equipment (2.336) He ends his speech without any approval. Without any doubt, Telemachus fails to convince the