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Storytelling + History (Evolution of Religion and hence society (Abrahamic…

- - - - maids given genre's of 'rhyme' 'ballad' 'sea shanty' - lack of equity in sharing of 'stories' - have 'one voice'
      - penelope given same agency and authority as men in her 'retelling' - shown via imitation of title 'the Illiad'
      - the penelopiad imitating 'the illiad' is suggestive female version being logical sequel - whilst alluding to secondary nature of female existence - not imitating 'the oddysey'
  - - - 'choral aspect'
      - 'contested narration'
      - rosalind interrupts what is meant to be her own narrative with soliloquies of her own life experiences
      - men 'speaking over her' and her words and thoughts 'off stage ... or perhaps just a recording' result in the cyclical mannerism of misogyny. Due to lack of true voicing of female perspective remain trapped in cycle of 'beginning again'.
- - - - doesn't want to be embarrassed due to him 'lik[ing] her' and his feelings not being reciprocated
      - Ziegler reveals that what he said isn't the truth at the end; 'meet at the bar at the back'
- - - - 'their lines should run over hers'
      - 'just do one's work'
      - 'Rosalind centre stage'; 'interupted'
      - 'possibly attractive'
      - 'something novel with her hair'
      - 'fall upon them like unrestrained beasts'
      - 'men's senior common room'
      - 'sometimes I do much more than oggle'
      - Rosalind 'taken aback' after Gosling declares 'allegiance'
      - transition to this present in penelopiad via objectification
        
        'slice of skirt' 'piece of meat' 'prize horse on parade'
        
        'rape was a deplorable but common feature of palace life'' 'probably thought nothing of it'
        
        'worth a thousand helens'
        
        'didn't rape her as she was only a child'
- - - - Artemis, the fates, Pallas Athene, Naiads
      - Zeus, Hermes, helio
- - - - 'anthropology lecture'
        
        'smugly' 'sir in the back' 'theory about ourselves is incorrect' 'feminist claptrap'
      - 'videotaped court hearing'
        
        'different value system' ' blot on a distinguished career' 'legend' 'dismiss the case'
  - - - parallel of Hermione + Rosalind
        
        death due to bodily betrayal 'ovarian cancer' + childbirth
        
        'dank' 'laboratory' vs cellar
        
        both forgotten by history - 'wasn't it the girl after all who discovered the secret of life' 'I suppose she just didn't stand out'
        
        statue
        
        Rosalind 'still' 'unmoving'
        
        leontes + wilkins 'project hope' that allows statue to 'come to life'
      - 'main difference between the winters tale and pandosto the play upon which it is based is that in shakespeare's version the heroine survives' - there has been some change in terms of 'hope' for women but remains minimal
      - cyclical structure = have to keep 'beginning again' due to failure to truly recognise female 'place in history'