Konner Johnson - The Ideal Form

    It was talked about in class how there are two people that or an internal class between two different thoughts that complete a person (or that is how I understood it). The analogy was given between Odysseus and Penelope. Odysseus and Penelope are both very clever people. Odysseus made a horse to outsmart the trojans which would eventually lead to the destruction of the city. Penelope told the suiters that were pestering her that she would create a scarf and when it was finished, she would pick one of them to marry, but every night she would unwind the scarf so she would never finish it and not have to choose somebody. Both were very smart but the way that they went about it was very different. Odysseus was very aggressive with his tactics whereas Penelope was not. She was very laid back. This can be an external comparison like what is shown above but the same differences can be shown as an internal struggle. We go through hard times in our lives that are journeys much like Odysseus and that can bring out the more aggressive side of us. Other times we may be laid back like Penelope. There is however a harmony that can be found between them and that is seen at the end of the Odyssey in which that both are reunited and become as one when they hug. This is something that should be strived for in our lived whether with other people or within ourselves of maintaining a balance.