Calypso and Circe, Important Women of Homers Odyssey :: Homer Odyssey womody

Calypso and Circe, burning(prenominal) Women of Homers OdysseyOf all the themes in the Odyssey, the one that seems to stand out is Odysseuss struggle to harvest home. There are many reasons why his journey is deterred, the most distinct being the women he encounters. Of the women, their are two that truly represent the variant aspects of creative and iconoclastic feminiinty. (Taylor, 571)Calypso is a woman who carries the true draw in of a woman, beauty. She offers Odysseus eternal life, and an end to physical suffering. With her, he will be able to keep his identity as a man and have intercourse the different pleasures she can offer. She seems like the most tempting offer for Odysseus also his wife, but he denies her offer. Odysseus refuses Calypsos offer of corporeal immortality for the same reasons that he resists bodily death in neither case could be preserve his upstanding being as Odysseus. (Taylor, 571)I found his refusal to be quite commendable, though his excuse was non. Circes charms are also directed towards the same place, but not as blatently as Calypsos. She drugs Odysseuss men to make them forget their homes and then she turns them into pigs. Taylor describes this rank of events as significant because it represents the metamorphosis as a collary of forgetting ones native land. The renewal of man to animal is a vivid image of the lessening of sympathetic consciousness which forgetting ones origings implies. (Taylor, 572) He also states that the story suggests that men who let themselves be drugged into a lower level of awareness by the destructive power of the enchantress, become no more than animals to be kept as the womans pet. (Taylor, 572)I found this quote to be quite interesting. It made me telephone of how this could relate to our own societies fallen men and also women. Many commonwealth today consume alcohol or recreational drugs and let it statement their actions, even though if they were sober, they would not be behaving this way. Our society today is weak, barely like in the story, to different potions that can affect their mental mental ability to think straight.