ENGB03H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tenderly, Margaret Atwood, Unreliable Narrator
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In the penelopiad, author margaret atwood presents penelope as the narrator telling the story of odyssey from her perspective, while she awaits her husband to return form the trojan war. Being dead for a few millennium, penelope portrays her story to the modern day reader and audience. Throughout the context of the novel, penelope emphasizes that she is a kind and clever girl, who has remained faithful to her husband odysseus, while he is off battling in the trojan war. Penelope tells her story, where she wants the reader to sympathize with her, that the facts and content she prevents is truthful, and that the reader can trust and rely upon the character she informs the reader to be. The definition of a reliable narrator is someone who speaks from a position of knowledge, truthfulness and shows a strong strength of character, the ability to follow the moral standard they set for themselves.
