margret atwood

In the book The Penelopiad, Margret Atwood gives the 12 hanged maids a voice throughout the novel. She tells the story of the odyssey and Penelope’s voice is powerful while also truthful and honest throughout the story. There is a reason and a purpose of why Margret Attwood chooses to give the maids a voice and let them be heard.

In the story, Margret Atwood talks and discusses the maids for a specific reason. I believe that she thinks that the maids had no voice, they are all females, and there death was not explained. That leaves one explanation that Margret Atwood is a feminist and thought that it would be important to include the maids and give them a much bigger part to show that its not ok to treat women that way. In the first telling of the story, it was never stated that the maids had restrictions as to who and whom they couldn’t sleep with. What also was not explained was why they slept with the suitors in the first place. That is why Margret Atwood found it to be intriguing to write about what actually happened and give the maids a voice.

Another reason for why Margret Atwood chose to give the maids a voice is because women didn’t exactly have a say back in that time period and were also looked down upon. I think that Margret Atwood

The last reason why Margret Atwood chose to include the maids into the story is because she wanted people to see and understand the daily life of a maid back then and what they had to go through.