'Marriage in The Odyssey'

' labor union only lasts if two partners faithfulness to apiece other seems to be true and honest. The characters in The Odyssey by bulls eye display the bark of loyalty betwixt the partners. The Odyssey describes many examples of infidelity in espousal and a couples disloyalty to all(prenominal)(prenominal) other. This epic meter lays step up diverse types of challenges the characters face in their marriages. Most of the marriages in the epic poesy are bewilder up for failure, only when some acidify out. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra marriage ends horribly because of their dishonesty with each other. The marriage of Aphrodite and Hephaestus does non work out either imputable to the unfaithful liaison of Aphrodite. Penelope and Odysseus thriving marriage work because of their commitment to each other. Homer presents the endorser with a multiform view of the enormousness of marriage, and how the gods contradict themselves and shorten their witness values.\nThe wretched marriage of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra does non end intumesce because of their unfaithfulness. After Agamemnon killed their daughter, deceiving Clytemnestra in the process, he destroys the devote in their marriage. Clytemnestras irritation grows for 20 old age and she and her lover, Aegisthus, punish Agamemnon by murdering him at a welcome foot feast. Clytemnestras disloyalty to Agamemnon, and Agamemnons betrayal to her, failed their marriage. Agamemnon instanter resents all women for what his wife has done to him and tells this to Odysseus in Hades. So,/ theres no topic more deadly, bestial than a woman/ go under on deeds like these- what a monstrous thing/ she plotted, slaughtered her own rule-governed husband! (Homer 11: 484-487). While chip in Troy, for 10 years he expects to come household to his wife and son. Agamemnon warns Odysseus not to trust his own wife when he returns home to Ithaca. never reveal the solid truth, whatever you whitethorn know;/ un less tell her a part of it, be sure to cut across the rest./ Not that you, Odysseus, give be dispatch by your wife.(11:5... '