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so what? what is Murray-smith and Atwood teaching us about... (sentences…
so what? what is Murray-smith and Atwood teaching us about...
jealousy
competing with other women
is this always a bad thing
motivating factors
teenager represented by Mary
egotistical
resilience
resilience
weapons
penelope
managing the farm
giving a characteristic Helen doesn't have
exposing Helens short-coming
feed insecurities
Tiggy hultting monologue is continually entreated by a pause or a "beat" as she struggles to compose herself or to reveal a painful truth
cut throat world
these interrelated narratives suggest a close community network, in which women measure them selves against other womens
bitchy comments
inappropriate convocations about other women
Mary epitimises the generalisations associated with teen age girls having total belief in ones self and ones abilities
beneath the brevato is a nagging fear that someone else might win
is this always the case?
windows and winsome, keep each other compony not
keep each other compony and offer a support network
owns her past therefore others are disregarded
Zoe strutters has risen above the negative nature of competitive
as the daught of a Niyad Penelope has a close affinity with water he way is not to challenge but to find a way to get what she wants with cunning
challenges of being a women
many of the women define them selves in their relations with others and when these relationships brake down their with divorce or death , even being on stage so does their concept of self.
the label of widow becomes a burned on her life where her needs are mostly ignored
marginalised
the contrast is drawn out by atwood in a series of binary oppersites and in the personal ataginisum between the two women in the under world (helen and penn)
social expectations
a crushing sense of sadness
partical society
atwood draws out contrasting stratagies for female survival in a world dominated by men
the use of Penelope's voice as the narrator allows us to see how completely she out wits many of the men around her and that she is conscious of others perceptions of her(but we are aware of her defnce and regrats of her actions)
as the underdogs in a society dominate by men ,the women in ancient competed with each other to be heard, noticed, or to sustain what little power they had
women were treated as prises or posetions
marglinlised
children, surevents, and women particluar less attractive women were amug thoughs who were with out power or status in ancient greece
the voice given to the maids provides an outlet for the marginlised and allows then to seek justice and vengeance.
the ever changing form of the maids sections reduces tier weigh and significance and comparison to Penelope and demesnes their status as serious characters even the modern day court secene ignores their view
times of crisis
momentary and women can overcome them
rebirth of women
telling their story Power
prove the internal dialogue of how they cope with and react to these events
the voice, Mary smith gives to each women express the challenges of what can be faced externally but also more significantly how difficult it can be to verbalise and deal emotionally with what happens to their security and belief in self
the effect is to subvert (undermind) the archic, heroic, masculine perspective of the ourse text by countering it with an eroic, witty, modern soundding female voice
Atwood debunks the version of the story found in the odyssey by suggesting a more prosaic (ordinary) less heroic ulternative
the hanged maids tail
the maids increasingly entrupt the narrative of Penelope, they denouse the inhuman things done to them by Odysseus and exposethe harsh reality of penelops stror
the maids voices are witty, parodic, tongue in cheek but also plaintive and hunting
they form a courus (link to ancent greek drama) and provided of multiply perspectives
Penelope's narrative is interspersed with snippets of the maids point of view as to how they are treated
Atwood gives a voice to the voiceless victims of male vilence
rather then resisting the authority of her mythical sources, Atwood goes around it by probing them for what they leave unsaid
thus penelope and atwood " spins a thread of her own" on her mythical loom while the heros of heroic myth are left to revile (celebrate), womenise, and slaughter out side
power of containment (contrast)
owls
traditionally the keepers of knowledge owls are the gardians of the underworlds
Penelope says that she wants to scream out but when she does "she sounds like an owl" which refers to the fact that she knows things about the events that take places upon Odysseus return. (these secretes must rain with her)
Penelope: distance purpose of clearing her name
the reader must questions her motives and facts as she relays them
atwood suggest that story telling is a matter of perspective
resilience and change
offers useful ways of getting around some of the pit falls of being a women
taking risk
zoe struthers, deared to go back into the spot light where she had been cristsied
mary making uo a new dance on the spot
tigging telling her story
winsome taking a risk in her rebirth
maids dear to come out and tell thier story, they undermind penelope authority
mainic
penelope becomes manic and lets her maids be hung
meryl
teresa
expose inner most troubles and concerns
challenges of being a women
under the burned of expectations and possibilities
idea of being perfect
is perfection and myth, being a bride is it all the great...
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the challenge becomes exacerbated by celebrities and the pressure they add to society. on them selves and on other
women
these identities operate as contradictions, in some ones concept of self feeling or self being
struggle to measure up to the various images of successful women-hood celebrated in popular culture
superficially reflect the steriotypical female ideals
clash uncomfortably with the characters needs to express their individuality thus creating pressures that erupt into turmoil
characters are faces with the moment in which their lives become less stable or what they have relied on or known starts to fail them
inner and outer worlds collides
character grapples to find words in an attempt to articulate these internal experences
social expectations
challenges of being a women
enslavement to maternal role
myths
draws on a range of cliches
wedding
dress
statistics
her final scram is an expression of rage and disair directed at a society where women are seduced by romantic dreams and celebrity glamour and made to believe that these will bring happyness
undermind the myth that marriage automatically provides a grounding sence identity
Penelope and Odysseus marriage bed is partly made from a tree symbolising continuity and put permanence of their marriage
Just as penelope does not confront her suiters o her husband head on, preferring to out wit them instead so the penelopiad doesn't openly challenge or desput the mythic narratives in which it is based
atwood presents Penelope world as one of survival
Post feminist literature
choice
respecting choice and not judging
empowerment sisterhood
story telling
individual empowerment
Career
maternal
sexuality
bombshells emphasisies sexuallity at all ages
winsome
women may have been forced by gender to congrogate and work together but this does not mean they would nassasarily couse false bonds or protect each other
penelope dicribes her self as being alone
mary, dancing to a sexual song
if there are two means of survival in the penelopiad "wit and cliterous" then Penelope relises manily on the first helen on the second.
Penelope's proposed relationships with other suiters
penelope
"i was smart, though...a plain but smart wife"
penelope the duck
"plain jane penelope"
relises on her wits
second prise
helen
"a women who driven 100 of men wild with lust"
intolerable beautyful
relises on her sexual allure
radient helen
first prise
the opening line "now that i am dead i know every thing" is an engaging and appeling start to the story with that as the narrative progresses penelope builds her own voice as she becomes her own story teller
attempts to justify her decisions and makes sence of the challenges that have come her way
In atowwods retelling of homeric myth "women speck and what of are not "heros and increasable feats but the "in humanly human things" done in war time
Post feminist are sexual activists who use their body and attractiveness, as an instrument to achieve social and personal change
Murray smith's windows into women hood in a post feminist society show how easily modern women can disappear inside the impossible pressure to be great
post feminism concentrates on furthering the idea of empowerment, the celebration of femininity freedom of choice and liberation
these pro feminist theme continually encourage the audience to evaluate the situation of women in society
sentences
we thus arrive as the crux of the problem
these publications give voice to a diverse range of women
mMurry smith and Atwood uncover the types of....
the theme discribes din the "author note" of "women on the edge" unites the six characters
they pin point the challenges that face 20 first centery women at different stages of thier lives
black humor and humor is used frequently through out the play to lighten the atmosphere and temper what would other wise be a heavy or tense moment
humor and sarcasm add a new perspective that challenges the idea that Penelope is just a loyal and subservient wife
many women feel the need to be accepted by men before they can be happy with their own identities
crafted narratives offering multiple perspectives giving voices to those who are often silenced and power to the disempowered
unlike bomb shells, the Penelopuiad is based on a hypo text which is an earlier text that serves as a source for a latter work of literature
Atwood reworks he male authored sources in much the same way that penelope deals with the over bearing men in her life
maids
their voice often changes as it mimics several geners styles at times it apear playful and fun and others it is an outraged and sorrow full
as we move to each section of the maids there voice becomes increasingly angry
or-though the changing style of the maids voice may course the reader to dismiss or gloss over their silliness in true greek theatre their voice is the most authoritative
CONCLUTIONS: Atwood draws on the archetypes of women in literature and challenges speculate notions of these women as passive, victims or villeins
Atwood gives these women contemporary voice to challenge the restrictions of ancient greece
two faces of war (power of story telling)
illiad
outside (public sphere)
equipment and generals
epic poem
courage on the battle feild
Legacy
the manly face if war
Penelopiad
Inside world/ private sphere
house hold goods and hand maids
multi vocal mixed narrative
slaughter in the palace
in humanly human things
womanly face of war
adjectives to describe characters
Odysseus
Cunning
resourcefulness
determination to retune home
similarities and contrasts, point of difference