The Odyssey: Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
The Purpose
The intended audience for Homers Epic Poem The Odyssey is a wide one. Homer was a bard and he would go to noblemen’s parties and tell this story for entertainment, the gusts would go back home and tell their families the stories, the servants would over hear while serving and spread them as well to other servants and maids. Homer was far from being the only person to tell his stories and people are still reading them in the 21st century.
Because the story was well known and told by many to many, the audience was probably a very large one. Even so the general audience would be men and nobles as it’s to those who the stories are normally told. In The Odyssey, at the Phaecian games in Phaecia when Odysseus is telling his adventures, the only women that hear his stories was Queen Arete and her maids.
In Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad the intended audience would be people that are probably already familiar and enjoy her work. This book would also appeal to people who have read the Odyssey as it gives another pe3rspective on Penelope and her maids that some people may find curious. Even so, the most …show more content…
It is classified as a modern novel as we are still in the same century it was written in. The author of the Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood, has a feminist lens while writing and in her daily life. While at University of Toronto’s Victoria College she says, that she was around a lot of intellectual women. These women helped influenced her into the feminist movement and helped her write her books with more main characters being strong and dominate females. In The Penelopiad, Atwood makes us think about the roles of women and feminism In Homeric and modern time periods. Because it was written as a satirical parody, it was also developed into a play. Atwood wrote the novel in such a way that it would be easier to understand and connect to this generation’s belief but still reign truth to the original
The intended audience for Homers Epic Poem The Odyssey is a wide one. Homer was a bard and he would go to noblemen’s parties and tell this story for entertainment, the gusts would go back home and tell their families the stories, the servants would over hear while serving and spread them as well to other servants and maids. Homer was far from being the only person to tell his stories and people are still reading them in the 21st century.
Because the story was well known and told by many to many, the audience was probably a very large one. Even so the general audience would be men and nobles as it’s to those who the stories are normally told. In The Odyssey, at the Phaecian games in Phaecia when Odysseus is telling his adventures, the only women that hear his stories was Queen Arete and her maids.
In Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad the intended audience would be people that are probably already familiar and enjoy her work. This book would also appeal to people who have read the Odyssey as it gives another pe3rspective on Penelope and her maids that some people may find curious. Even so, the most …show more content…
It is classified as a modern novel as we are still in the same century it was written in. The author of the Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood, has a feminist lens while writing and in her daily life. While at University of Toronto’s Victoria College she says, that she was around a lot of intellectual women. These women helped influenced her into the feminist movement and helped her write her books with more main characters being strong and dominate females. In The Penelopiad, Atwood makes us think about the roles of women and feminism In Homeric and modern time periods. Because it was written as a satirical parody, it was also developed into a play. Atwood wrote the novel in such a way that it would be easier to understand and connect to this generation’s belief but still reign truth to the original