Telemachus Identity In The Odyssey

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Telemachus family’s honor is in jeopardy since his father Odysseys roaming soul lost somewhere, God knows where in this world and his possible death is unrecognized and undervalued. Because, the uncertainty of tomorrow is not promised, Telemachus fears the worst, that his legendary father’s traces are vanished from the face of earth, leaving poor Telemachus unprotected and with a confusion of his own identity. Telemachus now faces the challenge to own up to his father’s masculinity and fill his void, in order to regain the lost reputation of his father Odysseus. Telemachus only wish, his father death, his people of Achaea, “would have raised his tomb and he’d have won his son great fame for years to come.”

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