There are several works that are dedicated to me, such as Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. In this work, Margaret Atwood tells the story of The Odyssey and the Iliad from the perspective of me. This made me happy where Atwood would help me tell my side of the story and how it is also relative in the twenty-first century where men still seek for lust and some will even lie. Men like Odysseus, my husband, who is a convincing and lying manipulator that “played his tricks and try out his lies on me” (Atwood 2). Yet, even though I had speculations about my husband Odysseus, I turned a blind eye because I wanted a happy ending that is best achieved by keeping the right doors locked (Atwood 3). When I was alive, men were the ones who organized, directed and controlled society while the women like me play a subservient or inferior position.…show more content… Vincent Millay poem “An Ancient Gesture.” She told my story of the pain and sadness that I had experienced in seventeen lines. Within these lines, Millay speaks the truth that “more than once: you can't keep weaving all day ...and undoing it all through the night...your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight” (Millay). This captures how painful it was every day and night weaving in wait for Odysseus to return to his palace. In addition to that, I had to weave and undo my weaving because I told the Suitors that I would marry them after I finish the large piece of weaving on my loom (Atwood 112). The twelve maids who helped me with my scheme of interminable weaving and to seek information of the Suitors plan, the ones who I thought of as sisters, were harmed at the end. I felt responsible, that it was my fault that my doves had to experience a terrible death, such a sad experience that I planned to say prayers and perform sacrifices for their souls when I was alive (Atwood
