ENGB03H3 Lecture Notes - The Penelopiad, Anticlea, Pirithous
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The story starts with a wife narrating that her husband had cheated on her and how she had believed him all these years without questioning him and now finally everything came forward. She speaks that even she was tempted yet she never was unfaithful. Now people are questioning and insulting her and she has answers that no one would believe so she can fabricate a story of her own which everyone is going to believe. The mention of death in the first page, shows the idea that we learn of everything once we leave the world. The narrator goes in this transition of being from the faithful wife to a deceiver. The speaker had a bad childhood experience and had to learn all the virtues at a young age. The speaker gives many religious symbols and references, believe that the world created by god is not pleasant for the humans.
