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To participate, write a 400 – 600 word response to the prompt given below. Support your argument with examples and direct quotations from the text(s). Be sure to use quotation marks for all direct quotes. Cite quotes and examples — include line numbers and/or page numbers in parenthesis after your quotes and examples. Use complete sentences and paragraphs, not bullet points or lists. PROOFREAD YOUR WORK.

Discussion Question Eight:

Compare the trial of Orestes at the end of The Eumenides with the trial staged by the maids in The Penelopiad. How is the idea of justice depicted in each? What kind of evidence is presented, and how do the trials proceed? In what ways do the transformations of the Furies parallel the transformations of the maids? Do the two works portray different understandings of justice with these scenes? Do you think justice is done in either, in neither, or in both?

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classic mythology

Project description
To participate, post a thread with your 400 – 600 word initial response to the debate prompt. You may choose to argue for or against the prompt. Include examples and direct quotes from the text(s) under discussion to support your response.

Debate Four Prompt:

In The Penelopiad, we see the story of Odysseuss absence and homecoming told from Penelopes point of view, but we also hear from Penelopes maids. The account of her behavior that they give contradicts both the impression of her that we get from The Odyssey and her own account of her behavior and experiences. Are you more sympathetic to Penelope, or to the maids? Is the idea that Penelope used the maids and then set them up for slaughter plausible to you, or do you believe that Penelope did her best to protect and save the maids, and that she cared for them like her own children? Whose side do you believe?

For argument: Penelope truly cared for her maids, and was powerless to stop their slaughter; if she used them, it was only to help them all survive.

Against argument: Penelope simply used her maids as tools and spies, and their slaughter was convenient for her, since it covered up her behavior; she didnt truly care about them.
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Added on 29.07.2015 13:17
Debate Four Prompt:

In The Penelopiad, we see the story of Odysseuss absence and homecoming told from Penelopes point of view, but we also hear from Penelopes maids. The account of her behavior that they give contradicts both the impression of her that we get from The Odyssey and her own account of her behavior and experiences. Are you more sympathetic to Penelope, or to the maids? Is the idea that Penelope used the maids and then set them up for slaughter plausible to you, or do you believe that Penelope did her best to protect and save the maids, and that she cared for them like her own children? Whose side do you believe?

For argument: Penelope truly cared for her maids, and was powerless to stop their slaughter; if she used them, it was only to help them all survive.

Against argument: Penelope simply used her maids as tools and spies, and their slaughter was convenient for her, since it covered up her behavior; she didnt truly care about them.

classic mythology

Project description
To participate, post a thread with your 400 – 600 word initial response to the debate prompt. You may choose to argue for or against the prompt. Include examples and direct quotes from the text(s) under discussion to support your response.

Debate Four Prompt:

In The Penelopiad, we see the story of Odysseuss absence and homecoming told from Penelopes point of view, but we also hear from Penelopes maids. The account of her behavior that they give contradicts both the impression of her that we get from The Odyssey and her own account of her behavior and experiences. Are you more sympathetic to Penelope, or to the maids? Is the idea that Penelope used the maids and then set them up for slaughter plausible to you, or do you believe that Penelope did her best to protect and save the maids, and that she cared for them like her own children? Whose side do you believe?

For argument: Penelope truly cared for her maids, and was powerless to stop their slaughter; if she used them, it was only to help them all survive.

Against argument: Penelope simply used her maids as tools and spies, and their slaughter was convenient for her, since it covered up her behavior; she didnt truly care about them.
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Added on 29.07.2015 13:17
Debate Four Prompt:

In The Penelopiad, we see the story of Odysseuss absence and homecoming told from Penelopes point of view, but we also hear from Penelopes maids. The account of her behavior that they give contradicts both the impression of her that we get from The Odyssey and her own account of her behavior and experiences. Are you more sympathetic to Penelope, or to the maids? Is the idea that Penelope used the maids and then set them up for slaughter plausible to you, or do you believe that Penelope did her best to protect and save the maids, and that she cared for them like her own children? Whose side do you believe?

For argument: Penelope truly cared for her maids, and was powerless to stop their slaughter; if she used them, it was only to help them all survive.

Against argument: Penelope simply used her maids as tools and spies, and their slaughter was convenient for her, since it covered up her behavior; she didnt truly care about them.