https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2020-08-23 06:47:10 UTC 2025-12-26 22:02:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f913.png lconnell4 https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698892627 2020-08-26 00:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698892627 https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698904625 Joanna Murray Smith explores Mary Odonell's pressure to be better than everyone else "no one can dance like me. no one in the whole school."]]> 2020-08-26 00:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698904625 grahatia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698910789 pressure to be connected to somebody (if not you're dull and an object of sympathy)
"in our society, being alone can make one feel rather silly" pg. 28
have to cover up lonesomeness (if you appear busy you look better off) 
"one insulates oneself from the foolishness of being one by creating inordinate amounts of ritual"
feels she has to suppress any feelings of love (not widow like to feel this way towards a man again)
"i embarrassed myself with the effort i was making, appearance wise"]]> 2020-08-26 00:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698910789 bairdala https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698911214 quote: meryl- "never look put together, never look well groomed"]]> 2020-08-26 00:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698911214 broadisa https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698914047 2020-08-26 00:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698914047 bairdala https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698915554 quotes: meryl- "lipstick, that way other mothers will think i'm on top of things"
"need to look glamorous for barry"]]> 2020-08-26 00:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698915554 avardzoe https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698916279 Murray-Smith expresses that marriage is a crucial part of a woman's life. 'I'm going to belong to someone']]> 2020-08-26 00:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698916279 mallirub https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698916323 "so fucking happy" 
"i wanted to be ....owned"]]> 2020-08-26 00:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698916323 https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698916877 Joanna Murray smith suggests the need for male validation. We see this through Mary O'Donnell "Mr Burbridge knows that I am the talent of show."]]> 2020-08-26 00:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698916877 parkipho https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698917272 2020-08-26 00:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698917272 fieldamb https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698917633 Pressure to be young and beautiful and that it is the most important trait. As Patrick is blind he is able to admire her for her traits and not her beauty.
'Winsome you read magnificently' pg 33. He appreciates something that she does and not about her looks.

]]> 2020-08-26 00:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698917633 cairnlau https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698919200 "except for Marylin who is pathologically mean...she's more than comfortable... Marylin spent 70 dollars on a ticket"

she talks about other women and 
they are critical of each other. constantly judging each others decisions, way of life, actions, looks, etc.
They compete against one another, instead of supporting one another.]]> 2020-08-26 00:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698919200 bairdala https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698920650 quote: penelope- "death is too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity"
"I didnt contradict, i didnt ask awkward questions, i didnt dig deep. i wanted happy endings in those days"]]> 2020-08-26 00:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698920650 forsyala https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698921026 ''it will furnish the cactus with a very real chance to ....'' - possibility of transformation and a moment of hope that she is going to be okay ]]> 2020-08-26 00:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698921026 mundaale https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698922493 Atwood exposes how women are pressured to resign themselves to patriarchal ideas about marriage, further demonstrated through Penelope being "handed over to Odysseus like a package of meat."]]> 2020-08-26 00:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698922493 broadisa https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698925964 2020-08-26 00:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698925964 cairnlau https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698925977 Although it is undesirable in societies standards, women require money and wit, in order to survive if one is widowed or a marriage breaks down. However, men are threatened by a powerful woman (with money and wit).

quote: "so what are ones weapons when one is a widow...Money. And wit."]]> 2020-08-26 00:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698925977 biancawalker https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698950436 Although Penelope tries to take control of the narrative once she is dead, she still doesn't have the power to make her words heard.
quote - "the difficulty is that I have no mouth through which I can speak."]]> 2020-08-26 01:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698950436 biancawalker https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698954946 Tiggy who was betrayed by her husband shows that she will survive.
quote - "dead or diseased roots should be hacked off with a sharp instrument" 
Tiggy verbally executes him, voicing her powerfulness and that she has the ability to transform.]]> 2020-08-26 01:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/698954946 avardzoe https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699026107 'It's all about the dress'

Murray-Smith explores how women put expectations on each other to look a certain way and for Thersea this, caused her to rush into getting married and making the biggest mistake of her life but no one stopped to question her about Ted just about the dress.]]> 2020-08-26 01:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699026107 avardzoe https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699035666 'i'm not going to be floating on that endless ocean of singlehood'
In Theresas mind her beauty saved her from being alone but it has also trapped her in a relationship she doesn't want to be in.]]> 2020-08-26 02:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699035666 mundaale https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699203834 Murray-Smith suggests that some men feel that women are no longer beautiful once that surpass youth. 
Quote: "The fascination...diminished...But it's not like anything stays the same!" Reveals that Tiggy was no longer loved by Harry after she aged. ]]> 2020-08-26 04:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699203834 mundaale https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699211612 "Now he was competing for what was at best only second prize."
Atwood suggests that women are objectified and their value is lessoned if they lack beauty. Reveals that women must constantly compete with each other over things out of their control.]]> 2020-08-26 04:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699211612 mundaale https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699214760 "We're not talking about fancy schmancy orchids here or big bossy showoffy lillies-"
Author suggests that some women create unnecessary competition for the affections of men. This reveals that women who are victims of being neglected by their male partners blame the other women who has stolen his attention away.]]> 2020-08-26 04:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699214760 mundaale https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699224165 Women compete to be 'better' [i.e prettier, reproduce first, get good husbands]. "They seemed to enjoy the reports they brought, especially when I dissolved in tears..." Reveals that some women put each other down to lift themselves up.]]> 2020-08-26 04:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699224165 biancawalker https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699238910 Women are expected to marry at a young age. Most women are forced into arranged marriages.
Penelope states "my marriage was arranged" highlighting how marriage is an exchange between men. ]]> 2020-08-26 05:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699238910 biancawalker https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699285940 Helen who is the most beautiful is abused and kidnapped because of her beauty. She feels the pressures of staying young and beautiful.
quote - "divine beauty is such a burden. At least you've been spared that!" Helen]]> 2020-08-26 06:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699285940 mallirub https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699407292 - intelligence is disregarded over beauty "had something better to offer than beauty" 
- devalued of aren't pretty "old bitch" - "it was as if i wasn't there"
"pretty enough white flowers but. a. person gets tired of. them after a while."

]]> 2020-08-26 08:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699407292 mallirub https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699415029 2020-08-26 08:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699415029 mallirub https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699416217 Theresa feels this burden to belong to someone which she believes with "rescue" her from an "endless ocean of single hood." In spite of this it leaves her unhappy as she compromises her worth to the idea that being "owned" will bring more fulfilment to her life. ]]> 2020-08-26 08:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699416217 broadisa https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699504844 2020-08-26 10:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/699504844 https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701559415 Joanna Murray Smith suggests that women are regarded for their age and beauty. We see this when Tiggy explains how Harry leaves her "I cared for you.. and all this time.. you were planning an escape" for a someone young and pretty "i've seen her with her midriff and her pierced belly button!"]]> 2020-08-27 01:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701559415 avardzoe https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701559767 Joanna Murry-Smith explores the strength to persevere in challenging situations. 
Mary's performance has been taken from Angela McTerry but in spite of this the "show must go on" as she builds strength to come up with a new performance. ]]> 2020-08-27 01:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701559767 broadisa https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701560566 2020-08-27 01:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701560566 bairdala https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701562763 "zoe, you can crawl into the gutter and give up or you can look yourself square in the eye and stop feeling sorry for yourself. so i fought"
"but what doesnt kill you makes you stronger right"
"im not defeated at all"]]> 2020-08-27 01:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701562763 biancawalker https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701562981 Zoe believes that being in 'the terrible country of men' involves marriage. Zoe's marriage ended in her being betrayed like Tiggy.
quote - "Darryl, left me back in '99 for my stylist, Tiffany." ]]> 2020-08-27 01:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701562981 grahatia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701563873 stage direction at the very start of the text shows her to be insecure, tentative and cautious
"a woman tentatively moves ..."
"she is a picture of timidity attempting to overcome itself"

]]> 2020-08-27 01:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701563873 broadisa https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701564749 2020-08-27 01:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701564749 dalykia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701564866 Women told each other stories to make them feel bad about themselves - Penelope was told about her father throwing her into the sea -  "there is always some servant or slave or old nurse or busybody ready to regale a child with awful things done to it by it's parents when it was too young to remember." pg 9]]> 2020-08-27 01:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701564866 cairnlau https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701565778 "We were set to work in the palace, as children; we drudged from dawn to dusk, as children. If we wept, no one dried our tears. If we slept we were kicked awake. We were told we were motherless. We were told we were fatherless. We were told we were lazy. We were told we were dirty. We were dirty."

This quote conveys that women not born into regal or high-class families were often employed as maids, or house keepers. From a young age, they were told that they were not good enough or ineligible for anything really. Their parents weren't in the picture and they were forced to work day in and day out, and were given the impression by society that sleeping or crying (normal functions in general) were entirely unacceptable.]]> 2020-08-27 01:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701565778 kateunderwood37 https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701566384 "if I tried to carry out any small wifely task she would be right there to tell me that wasn't how odysseus liked things done" - Eurocyleia and Penelope.
This quote is an example of how women were undermined and ultimately isolated by other women. ]]> 2020-08-27 01:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701566384 fieldamb https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701567933 Women often see their husbands faults however they turn a blind eye. 'I kept my mouth shut; or, if i opened it, I sang his praises'. 'I didn't contradict, I didn't ask awkward questions, I didn't dig deep'. 
Women are expected to support their husband and even if they do the wrong thing.]]> 2020-08-27 01:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701567933 parkipho https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701568314 Joanna Murray-Smith's message is that a male gaze validates a woman. You aren't successful if you haven't experienced love from a man. Tiggy mentions with Harry how, "Your glance made me feel lovely"]]> 2020-08-27 01:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701568314 biancawalker https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701569032 Atwood highlights how societal views and values of the time were that women were merely an object to men and that they only married to bare their children. Children were exploited to ensure the man's property and money are protected.
quotes - "marriages were for having children, and children were not toys or pets. children were vehicles for passing things along."

]]> 2020-08-27 01:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701569032 mallirub https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701572618 "These stories are untrue" 
- Women are unfairly judged and aren't given a voice to fight back. Thus ultimately leaves them feeling outcasted by a society who wont hear to them. 

 
"her silence is taken as proof"
"blame it on the maids!"
- Women of a lower class are not viewed as equals, leaving them as easy targets for accountability of another peoples actions.
"maids were overpowered" 
"the other ones without names"


]]> 2020-08-27 01:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701572618 mundaale https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701572717 "Silence...The baby cries. I open my eyes. It's darkish. Baby crying...six o'seven..."- Every day Meryl gets up and faces the challenges of parenthood again and again, never giving up or faltering. ]]> 2020-08-27 01:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701572717 grahatia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701572879 despite being unloved by her husband she has survived through her resilience for herself (characterises herself as a cactus to show this)
she is able to be resilient and continue on even though her husband has put her through the worst type of pain (link to hostile environment and undaunted struggle)
"we regard the cactus as a plant which struggles to survive in a hostile environment and it's this notion of proud, undaunted struggle which enhances its appeal. It refuses to give in. It simply refuses to bow to circumstances"

notion to sex (she is capable to sexual love)
despite what her husband may think she is capable of being loved and being pleasured (resilience in the way she doesn't give this part of herself up)
"their spines are not poisonous ... i can flower again and again and again"]]> 2020-08-27 01:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701572879 bairdala https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701573614 "under the old rules only important people had marriages, because only important people had inheritances."]]> 2020-08-27 01:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701573614 broadisa https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701574674 2020-08-27 01:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701574674 parkipho https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701574884 The maids stated that the only time they get to rest and do not work or get chased by noblemen wanting to have sex with them is during sleep. "In dreams we all are beautiful, In glossy crimson dresses; We sleep with every man we love, We shower them with kisses" In their dreams there is no pain, only laughter and kindness, they are free from the strains of their social class and sexual violence.]]> 2020-08-27 01:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701574884 https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701575132 2020-08-27 01:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701575132 dalykia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701575930 Penelope was emotionally disconnected from her parents and had to find her own way  - "I knew that I would have to look out for myself in the world. I could hardly count on family support." pg 11]]> 2020-08-27 01:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701575930 bairdala https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701576674 "i had an arranged marriage"
"contests to see who should marry the nobly born woman"
"since it wasnt up to me to chose my husband- which one i preferred"
"one story has it that i was the payment for a service odysseus had rendered to tyndareus"]]> 2020-08-27 01:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701576674 biancawalker https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701579657 Penelope has no way to voice her opinions. She is forced into a marriage that she does not want to be in.
quote - "since it wasn't up to me to choose my husband - which one I preferred."]]> 2020-08-27 01:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701579657 forsyala https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701579693 ''all were agreed on one thing; it was not mine'' - she has no voice and burdened by over whelming sense of worthlessness 

''I had no friends of my own age and station so these excursions were not very enjoyable'' - highlights her extreme loneliness and isolation ]]> 2020-08-27 01:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701579693 fieldamb https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701583052 Atwood exposes the power of words and the consequences it can have on a women's narrative.
'each of these sacks is full of words'. Often Individuals have experienced or heard rumours that are about them or what they've said about others at least one.
'What can a woman do when scandalous gossip travels the world? If she defends herself she sounds guilty.']]> 2020-08-27 01:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701583052 mallirub https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701583839 Atwood comments on the Maids who were marginalised as they were left "dangling like clothes on a line" after doing nothing but remaining subservient to the needs of men.   
In spite of death they wont give up as they "are here to serve you right" and keep going despite the anguish suffered at the hands of men.]]> 2020-08-27 01:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701583839 grahatia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701584571 talks a lot about the betrayal felt by her husband (she has done everything right but her husbands the one who leaves)
"that's what they do. And it's too much, is it too much to honour that? To honour that? To feel something - anything - for that?"]]> 2020-08-27 01:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701584571 saundher https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701585069 The term "Cactus" is used in a resilient way]]> 2020-08-27 01:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701585069 fieldamb https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701585592 'I've always been of a determined nature. Patient, they used to call me. I like to see a thing through to the end' . Penelope's determined nature expresses how even though women may not have the power to speak, she knows she has the capability.]]> 2020-08-27 01:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701585592 cairnlau https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701586511 "If our owners or the sons of our owners or a visiting nobleman wanted to sleep with us, we could not refuse".]]> 2020-08-27 01:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701586511 biancawalker https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701587555 The maids show a glimmer of resilience when they imagine a life where they are swept away by noble man.
quote - "It's hope, and hope only that keeps us afloat."
Atwood highlights how even though the maids have suffered the worst injustice they still have a glimmer of hope.]]> 2020-08-27 01:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701587555 cairnlau https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701588451 "If we were pretty children our lives were worse".

In this quote the maids are implying that being a pretty child, increases their chance of getting raped by owners, sons of owner of noble man; thus proving beauty is a curse.]]> 2020-08-27 01:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701588451 grahatia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701588537 Double standards of society (injustice that he gets who he wants when she gets nothing)
"As if a fat, balding, fourty-nine year old, lactose-intolerant, fare-infringement officer is going to set anyone on fire"]]> 2020-08-27 01:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701588537 avardzoe https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701592215 'how many men did Odysseus butcher for you?' Atwood suggests that the ancient times found it acceptable for men to kill for their wife.]]> 2020-08-27 01:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701592215 dalykia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701594680 Women kept busy with rituals to cover up their loneliness - "One insulates oneself from the foolishness of being one by creating inordinate amounts of ritual" pg 28]]> 2020-08-27 01:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701594680 parkipho https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701596268 When Penelope and Telemachus fight, although Penelope has been the only parent in Telemachus' life, she still must evoke Odysseus in give herself authority. Odysseus is a patriarchal presence in the family even in his absence. "Then he defied my parental authority by saying he didn't need anyones permission to take a boat.."]]> 2020-08-27 01:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701596268 mundaale https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701596491 "I managed to keep up the appearance of cheerfulness and hope.." Here the author intends to say that whilst women were put down and faced numerous challenges, they still had courage and remained resilient. ]]> 2020-08-27 01:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701596491 https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701598250 Margaret Atwood explores how women are judged and talked about that are "completely untrue."]]> 2020-08-27 01:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701598250 steelali https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701598252 "And all is mirth and kindness, There are no tears of pain; For are decrees are merciful, Throughout our golden reign." - p126

The maids show their resilience. After their cruel deaths they still manage to dream of a world where they are well treated and happy. ]]> 2020-08-27 01:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701598252 grahatia https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701599745 sisterhood isn't very supportive (judge you, give fake sympathy but don't understand)
"sisters don't get it, married friends don't get it. daughters don't get it"

even at an old age, youre still judges by those around you (sisterhood judged one another)
"marilyn spent seventy dollars on a ticket but baulked at paying five dollars for a chardonnay"]]> 2020-08-27 01:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701599745 broadisa https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701602158 2020-08-27 01:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701602158 saundher https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701603672 "Telemachus was now of an age to start ordering me around" - Penelope stating her sons dominance over her, and she she is powerless and voiceless to stop that.]]> 2020-08-27 01:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lconnell4/4w141ub01h8hvtbf/wish/701603672