The penelopiad - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

(Lady) Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978 -c. 1015): Novelist, diarist, and courtesan. She was the author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary nikki; and a collection of tanka poems. The daughter of the court official Fujiwara Tametoki, she sat in on the classical Chinese literature lessons that her brother received, in spite of the Heian traditions against higher education for women. (Sei) Shonagan (c. 966 - c. 1013): Like Lady Murasaki, was a lady-in-waiting of th...

My English Literature essay (graded an A) examines the economic proposition of women through marriage. In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. Two authors who are well-known for their feminist perspectives. My essays also explore the context of the Regency period and Ancient Greece, where Greek mythology is formed. Alongside, different types of critical analysis, naturally through a Feminist lens but also using Psychoanalytic and post-modernist theories.

These notes on Marina Carr's 'By the Bog of Cats' include detailed literary analysis with named language and structural devices, direct key quotes from each act, contextual background of Ireland and colonialism, critical viewpoints from well established authors with website links provided that take you to the source and finally comparison links to 'The Penelopiad' by Margaret Atwood. The notes are separated by Act, Scene and elements of the play such as stagecraft. Furthermore, everything i...