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    Helen In The Penelopiad

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    In this novel The Penelopiad there are many people in this story that I am fond of and many that I dislike very much. Penelope tries to portray herself as the good one in the story but she is almost just as bad as the others. She tries to describes and persuade the reader to make her seem innocent but she is really not. The character in the novel that I most admire are the maids because of what they had to go through pertaining to the brutal orders that Penelope gave them. The person who I most despise

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    by his or her understanding of the author’s contextual influences and the time during which the text was composed. Context plays a crucial role in establishing plot and how meaning is shaped throughout the text. By analysing The Odyssey and The Penelopiad‚ the reader gains a powerful insight into the Ancient Greek period that is central to Odysseus’s plot. Through a close study of both these texts‚ composed millennia apart‚ much can be learnt about the evolution of society and its perception‚ as

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    Penelope establishes right away her clever nature and reveals other personality traits that begin to hinder our understanding of what really went on in The Penelopiad. However‚ focusing on a few key aspects of her account can help in understanding Penelope better as well as what she’s not revealing: the water motif introduced by her mother (43) and her feelings/relationship with her cousin Helen. Penelope presents her conflict with Helen early on. Helen had fame and beauty‚ she stole the limelight

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    Penelope’s story and relationship with Odysseus has remained a myth‚ until Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. In the novel Penelope finally explains her story of what happened while Odysseus was on her journey away and back to her. The Penelopiad is praised as a feminist text and throughout the story the reader truly finds insight into Penelope’s life and personality. Her choices throughout her story in The Penelopiad can primarily be shown through her mothers speech that she makes at Penelope’s wedding to

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    Looking at The Penelopiad CORAL ANN HOWELLS As the lights go down in the great church of St James‚ Piccadilly‚ a voice speaks eerily out of the darkness somewhere off to the side: ‘Now that I’m dead I know everything.’1 And then a single spotlight reveals centre stage a small grey-haired female figure robed in black sitting on a throne; she begins to speak. This is Margaret Atwood‚ doubly imaged here in performance as Penelope‚ for I am describing a staged reading of part of The Penelopiad by the writer

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    Margaret Atwood’s‚ The Penelopiad gives an alternate view of what was going on in Ithaca during Odysseus’ 20 year absence. This essay will specifically focus on the maids who were hanged because of what was thought to be disloyalty. The maids were wrongly accused‚ and quite possibly framed to cover up for Penelope’s infedelity‚ as Atwood proposed. Therefore‚ The Odyssey fails to adequately tell the story of the maids. Atwood‚ however‚ recognized this injustice and wrote The Penelopiad to better explain

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    character is reveal. In The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood‚ Penelope faces this exact scenario when she is left behind in Ithaca as Odysseus leaves to fight in the Trojan war‚ losing the only person she can trust. In the absence of Odysseus‚ Penelope’s complex character is revealed. Atwood effectively uses diction‚ point of view‚ syntax and tone to characterize Penelope as a skeptical‚ needy and loyal character. The first person perspective used by Margaret Atwood in The Penelopiad gives us valuable insight

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    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

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    A Restless Liar The Penelopiad‚ written by Margaret Atwood‚ is a story based on Penelope’s life experiences. Penelope‚ Queen of Ithaca‚ provides this information while in Hades‚ but speaks as if she were from modern times. Most of The Penelopiad is about Penelope’s life; however there is another major story line. The maids that assist Penelope in her everyday work also voice their hardships they are subjected to throughout their lives. The reader gets both Penelope’s and her maid’s points of view

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    Analysis of Chapter 1 of ‘The Penelopiad’ (Margaret Atwood) The Penelopiad is‚ first and foremost‚ is a feminist perspective of events that unfolded during The Odyssey. It is from Penelope’s‚ the cousin to Helen of Troy‚ point of view- a violent and revisionist view of events that took place. As the central figure is a woman‚ we heard her thoughts and know of her feelings‚ we are able to emphasise with her. History tends to ‘downsize’ a woman’s (even women’s) role in events‚ not telling of the impact

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