Odysseus the Overrated
In the lecture today, I really enjoyed hearing about the feminist view of the Odyssey, and thought it brought an interesting new perspective to a novel I’ve been dragging my feet through since Grade 11. I wanted to add on to that by discussing the double standard in terms of adultery. Even though I don’t know anything about the philosophies of feminism or feminist literary criticism, I was frustrated every time the subject of adultery was raised. Penelope, with her husband gone, is stuck in her house with twenty men…read more