“official version” (Atwood 2)."

• Penelope's silence/voice

"By giving voice to Penelope as an autodiegetic narrator, and to the chorus of maids who comment on the queen’s narrative, Atwood brings a paradigm shift in the perception and orientation of the events and their meaning."

• Class politics

"She comments on how she was ordered to thrown into sea (Atwood 2); how she was fetishized a prize for wining a contest (race); how she waited a disgraced woman in her husband’s house, and how she was compared to the wicked wife, Clytemnestra, who murders her husband upon his return from Troy."

• Toxic masculinity

"Penelope breaks through the patriarchal fetters that restrain her from going beyond her conventional limits. In regaining her narrative, Penelope de-divinizes the official narrative eulogy on audience. This reverses the power relations that structured the social hierarchies of Greek Society: the enslavement of female servants, the silencing of women, and the glorification of male heroes."

• Class politics, toxic masculinity