ROLE OF WOMEN

"All of this was play-acting: the fiction was that the
bride had been stolen, and the consummation of a
marriage was supposed to be a sanctioned rape."
(Atwood 44)
- In Ancient Greece, women were treated as if
they were less than men.
- They were constantly objectified--sold to others
as if they were mere packages of meat.
- Penelope never ceased to play the role of the faithful wife, even though Odysseus, or men in general, were allowed to do whatever they wished.