The Penelopiad

how Atwood perceived the characters and writings that Homer created in his novel ‘The Odyssey’ . In an interview, Atwood explained her beliefs on the gender roles surround The Odyssey thus incorporating this as well as other materials into ‘The Penelopiad’ by stating: “There is an argument that has been made quite thoroughly that The Iliad and The Odyssey were written by two different people, and that the person who wrote The Odyssey was a woman.’ Atwood then carries on to explain her argument stating

Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad has many motifs, although the most significant motif is suffering, which is present throughout The Penelopiad through uninformed families, terrified suitors, and the agony of young girls. Even the narrator of the story, Penelope, has suffered ever since her childhood when she was thrown off a cliff. Since the beginning of The Penelopiad, each individual from Ithaca has ended up in pain. Penelope and Telemachus’ pain of not knowing the fate of Odysseus, a father, and

Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad directly challenges and explores the issues, conflicts and expectations faces by women living in a patriarchal society. In her subversion of Homer’s mythic, The Odyssey, Atwood’s polyphonic novella introduces a range of new perspectives; Penelope and her maids, preciously ignored and disregarded in the original myth. These new perspectives raise issues about the validity of narrators, and the ways in which myths are distorted within the context of their original writers

The Penelopiad is a novel written by Margaret Atwood a Canadian born female with strong opinions and even stronger viewpoints. Margaret started her career as a writer in 1961 when she published her first poetry book. She has written many books and novels. Atwood has denied that her work is feminist in many occasions but when we further inspect The Penelopiad we get the feeling that this is indeed a very feminist novel. The Penelopiad is the story of Penelope the wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus

The Penelopiad: through a feminist lens Margaret Atwood was born on the 18th of November 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She is a writer and a poet, and has written more than 40 books, poems and critical essays. She studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Radcliff college and Harvard university. She has been an English teacher at different universities and has won countless of writing prizes throughout her career (Biography, Margaret Atwood). One of her most known writing piece is The Penelopiad

Atwood is a Canadian author and poet. She is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays (margareatwood.ca) and is very popular in the feminist community due to her novels focusing on women’s culture and viewpoint. The Penelopiad is a novel written by Atwood that tells the myth of the famous Greek king Odysseus from his wife Penelope’s point of view. The reader-response theory is the best way to interpret this novel. This theory is a form of literary criticism that depends

‘The Penelopiad’ is a novella by Margaret Atwood, published in 2005 in the Canongate Myth Series where contemporary authors rewrite ancient myths. Atwood often portrays female characters dominated and oppressed by patriarchy in her novels. Atwood believes that the feminist label can only be applied to writers who consciously work within the framework of the feminist movement. The novella 's central themes include the effects of story-telling perspectives, double standards between the sexes and the

the effort. The maids point of view of what occurred to them during The Odyssey, will not soon be forgotten, (Omari, Kifah (Moh'd Khair) Ali Al, and Hala Abdel Razzaq A. Jum'ah. "Language stratification: a critical reading of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad). The other narrative of this novel focusses on Penelope. Penelope is telling her side of the story from the underworld. Penelope has many character flaws that range from her proneness to weeping to her bitter view of others and herself. The Odyssey

Explain the influence of Homer’s Odyssey on Margaret Atwood. It is very clear that Atwood was influenced by The Odyssey when writing The Penelopiad. After reading The Odyssey, it left Atwood with more questions than answers about the maids and Penelope. Atwood waned to explore the poem from a female perspective. Atwood found many inconstancies in the story of the maids which she wanted to explore. She also wanted to explore Penelope’s role as a wife, mother and materfamilias. Margaret Atwood said

Myth and Mythology have always been among the elements which shape the lives of individuals and the working mechanism of societies. Margaret Atwood uses in her works every possible material that enables one to trace her experiences back to the social, historical, cultural, and natural aspects of her ‘identity’. Her familiarity with the Canadian wilderness can be detected in her employment of nature and animal imagery in her poems and novels. Her novel’s The Penelopid and Surfacing to discover some