inspiration for many literary creations including Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad. Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad is a feminist approach from the point of view of Odysseus’ wife Penelope to balance out the tale of the male centric tone of the Odyssey. Like the Odessey the Penelopiad is written from the view of a major character but unlike the Odyssey its narrator is Penelope. Atwood provides a different perspective of gender
In Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad and in Arni Samhita's Sita's Ramayana, a whole new perspective on male-epics opens up. Sita and Penelope's version of events draws readers with their personal tales of them narrating their lives. Penelope and Sita provide a character many women can identify with, with their feelings of empathy, shame, and hope. The majority, of writers throughout history are male. To be literate enough to record everything down you had to be rich. So, writers were often male and
The Penelopiad tells its story in a different time period from the Odyssey as it comes from Penelope looking backward through centuries from today back to the classical Greek period. I think Atwood’s intention is to highlight how attitudes towards women have changed over the centuries. She uses the pyschology of sexual abuse to explain the maid’s behaviour. “ if our owners or the sons of our owners or a visiting nobleman or the sons of a visiting nobleman wanted to sleep with us, we could not refuse