"The Odyssey: A Stage Version"

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The paper examines the character of Penelope in "The Odyssey: A Stage Version". The paper analyzes how Penelope does take a journey, but in a different manner that her husband, Odysseus. The moral and ethical journey of marital loyalty becomes the psychological obstacles that Penelope must overcome in her inner travels. The paper further discusses how Penelope is represented in other characters, such as Circe, as a memory that moves in tandem with Odysseus. However, it is the journey of loyalty and commitment at home where Penelope shows prudence, morality, and fidelity in her behaviors and actions under great marital duress.

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"In this drama study the journeys of Penelope in Derek Walcott's "The Odyssey: A Stage Version", one can find a moral set of tests that are brought forth through the disguises of Odysseus. In this manner, Penelope must undergo a series of trials that will either prove loyalty or betrayal to the memory of her marriage vows to Odysseus. In this manner, the journey of Penelope, although far more stationary that those of Odysseus, is as series of moral and psychological tests that prove her loyalty to marriage. Although much of The Odyssey in Walcott's staged presentation relies on the journey of Odysseus returning home from the Trojan Wars, it is apparent that there are other character that must invariably live parallel journeys in relation to the main character."

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