Epic Transformations - The Odyssey 2018/19 by Dan Cadman https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5 Add your comments about your assigned section of the extract here. en-us 2018-10-04 10:54:59 UTC 2025-11-19 00:50:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Side 1 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372311 Extremely powerful verbs bringing images - ‘wretched’, ‘butchered’.

Examples of polymētis - ‘mastermind of war, I was not wrecked’ shows Odysseus, as the hero/protagonist, inherently possesses the qualities essential for survival. ‘Fatal stroke’, however, suggests that it is his ‘destiny’ to die, and he has survived beyond that prophecy.

Theme of the sea being the enemy - Poseidon is mentioned to have ‘roused some punish[ment]’ which also brings in divine intervention.]]> 2018-10-08 16:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372311 Side one. The question over a heroic death. The several titles for odysseus. https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372491 2018-10-08 16:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372491 Side 2 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372722 There's many negative connotations of women being mentioned on the second side such as never putting your trust in a women and that Odysseus' wife is too 'steady and her feelings run 'too deep implying she is too vulnerable and emotional to murder.]]> 2018-10-08 16:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372722 Homecoming https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372850 Traditional image of a father returning triamphantly home, ‘ His beloved father will come sailing home and see his son.’ 
Shows strong family ties. ]]> 2018-10-08 16:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372850 Side 1 Comment https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372913 The ghost appears very bitter,using language such as wretched and treacherous 
He appears to hate his wife, she is possibly the reason for his bitterness?]]> 2018-10-08 16:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290372913 last stanza https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373446 blame whole gender on the mistake of two women ]]> 2018-10-08 16:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373446 Repetition https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373872 Odysseus asks how the general died, and the answer is almsost word for word mimicking the question]]> 2018-10-08 16:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373872 side one https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373939 “win their city, take their women” — the city is more valuable than the women, because women can be taken but the city must be earned ]]> 2018-10-08 16:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373939 Side 2 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373988 An overall sense of women being deceitful and a danger to men ]]> 2018-10-08 16:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373988 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373993 Could correlate with the Adam and Eve]]> 2018-10-08 16:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290373993 Second side https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374366 Presentation of women as animalistic: ‘bestial and ‘monstrous’ and untrustworthy: ‘the time for trusting women’s gone forever!’ ]]> 2018-10-08 16:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374366 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374395 Page 1 : betrayal/ dishonourable traits ]]> 2018-10-08 16:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374395 Side 2 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374680 Gender roles / expectations. Man v Woman. Talks about a son embracing a father. Soft imagery whereas the depictions of the woman are harsh/mistrust/secretive]]> 2018-10-08 16:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374680 Side Two lwcrystal https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374682 The clash between Agamemnon saying that Penelope would never betray Odysseus and saying ‘the time for trusting women’s gone forever!’]]> 2018-10-08 16:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374682 Page 1 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374685 ‘But she, that whore, she turned her back on me’ 

This shows the entitlement that men feel about women. They feel entitled to a woman’s acceptance and become angry by calling her a ‘whore’ simply when she decides to reject him. ]]> 2018-10-08 16:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374685 Animal comparisons https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374890 "then cut me down as a man cuts down some ox at the trough"

"All my comrades killed [...] just like white tusked boars]]> 2018-10-08 16:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374890 Side 2 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374907 The importance of woman’s faithfulness and devotion to men is emphasised through the ghost. The murder pushed him over the edge causing him to blame women similar to the condemnation of Eve by God ]]> 2018-10-08 16:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374907 Side 1 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374911 The betrayal from his wife contrasts odysseus' wifes fidelity and loyalty to him]]> 2018-10-08 16:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290374911 Side one. fbishop5 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375249 He just seems overly annoyed because he was tricked into his own death ]]> 2018-10-08 16:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375249 Side 2 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375318 All women are bad and ‘bestial’ except for Odysseus’ wife. Double standards?]]> 2018-10-08 16:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375318 Side 2 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375368 Clear mistrust of women. Odysseus being told to be careful of women and to “never indulge her” with the truth (of his wife). ]]> 2018-10-08 16:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375368 The house of the dead https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375418 Death is destiny which cannot be changed. Lack of mercy and heartlessness in the Marshal’s murder. Representing women as either victims or villains there are no strong heroines in the extract. Deceit from his own wife shows women as Eve (Genesis).]]> 2018-10-08 16:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375418 Side 2 chocolate_ellie https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375454 Odysseus’ fight for survival continues dispite the fact that he is returning home. In the underworld he is told to distrust his own family. 
'Never out in the open... the time for trusting women’s gone forever!’  
]]> 2018-10-08 16:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375454 Treachery (side 1) https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375576 The ghost appears to be cut deeper by the actions of his wife than those of his enemy Aegisthus
The betrayal has filled him with anger]]> 2018-10-08 16:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375576 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375679 Imagery of women as objects “weapon” , could reiterate the ideology of women being dangerous, as there is repetition of violent language in relation to women such as “slaughtered”, “vengeance”.]]> 2018-10-08 16:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290375679 Side 1 https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290380761 "fought to win their city, take their women" "he killed me, he with my own accursed wife" "but she, that whore, she turned her back on me"

Women aren't valued and are there to take and they should obey the men.]]> 2018-10-08 16:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/d_cadman/2vikk6groek5/wish/290380761