Oddyssey and the myth of Er, Parlimentary reform and votes on confidence

here is a excerpt from the ruff copy of my text Chrysovalantis Petridis Plato's mythologizing the myth of Er, Inkwaterpress USA 2009
I will analyze the section on hades tomorrow and recommend this book to further your intellectual tools concerning interpreting ancient myths.

The ideas associated with the human roles characters chose as their new lives are metaphors for different types of humans. Each new life embodies the content of the archetype they represent. For example, Atalanta's choice for a new life represents the archetype of a professional athlete. She embodies the ideas associated with such athletes like the desire for honours. Her past life was that of a huntress. The idea of the professional athlete is connected to the ideas associated with the huntress to produce the idea of the huntress that hunts game for fame and honour. Epius’ choice for a new life represents the archetype of the female or feminine artisan. Epius was a boxer and the builder of the Trojan horse. Building this wooden horse would have been seen as a male military enterprise and connecting it to a female artisan produces the idea of a builder who is an effeminate artist. This effeminate artist also boxes. As mentioned earlier, Odysseus chooses to live the private life. Odysseus’ choice for a new life represents the type of person who chooses the seclusion of the private life as a necessary result of the misfortune he found when seeking public honour. The choice to live the private life is his attempt to escape the punishments and misfortunes that he suffered because of his pursuit of honour. Odysseus was one of the Greek generals in Troy. His pursuit of the honour of being the one that caused the Greeks to win in Troy led to the burning of its temples. The gods then punished him for causing the circumstances that led to this sacrilegious event. Consequently, he wandered the seas for decades before returning to Thebes. His character in the myth is cured of the pursuit of honour because of his punishment by the gods. He chooses to live the life of the private person because of this punishment. His new life represents the seclusion that one divinely punished might engage in to avoid further punishment. His choice to live the private life is a reaction to his punishment and not a choice he desired to make. Since the divine is a metaphor for life, Odysseus’ divine punishments can be seen simply as the misfortunes he suffered as a result of his pursuits in public life. The image of Odysseus at the end of the myth is the divinely punished or misfortunate in life that chose to be antisocial and reclusive to avoid further punishment. Odysseus’ choice to live the private life is not heroic. In fact, it can be argued that he represents someone who tried to be a hero and had his life fall apart because of it. Thus, he chooses to avoid further misfortune by giving up his pursuit of public honour and becoming a recluse.

The last thing concerning parliamentary reform concerns votes of non confidence. traditionally if a the house of commons losses a vote on a bill or calls for a vote of non confidence the prime minister with advice from the governor general dissolves the government. In a time of minority government and as has been scene of late this can happen easily.
I suggest that once the prime minister seeks the council of the attorney general there the Governor General can veto the vote or accept it dissolving government. If a strong majority votes to overturn the governor generals vote the vote is sent to the senate to vote for or against the dissolution of the House of Commons. Now the senate can be set up in two ways either it is voted for every federal election or to be true to its spirit as a long standing house of sober second thought it can be elected every two elections. Thus it could dissolve the government once without forcing itself into an election or maintain it to full term to prolong their term.