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The Feminine Loss of Glorious Battle: The Emerged Voice of The Ithaca Queen

Author(s) Mr. Muktesh Nath Dwivedi
Country India
Abstract In the course of epics and their retellings pointing out characters specially the females who had been suppressed, either intentionally or not- hard to name- they hold a significant place. Their roles got the desired attention later, but in the retellings by writers of their category. These writers realised and raised the voices of the females from the bottom to the top using a strong, dignified language while writing the roles uplifting. This paper discusses how feminist epic retellings reclaim the silenced voices of women through the language used in texts, especially in how the female characters are portrayed, offering a powerful subversion of patriarchal narratives in Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Penelopiad’, and examining
how Penelope and her long-confined margins in Homer’s Odyssey reclaim her story and reposition herself as both the narrator and critic of the epic tradition. They reorient the epic not towards glorification but critique, reminding the readers that the silence of women in epic narratives is not accidental but structural and that reclaiming voice is a political act. Text like ‘The Penelopiad’, the new narrative forces the reader with questions such as class, injustice, and power. Atwood’s work not only gives voice to the voiceless, who are historically voiceless–willingly or unwillingly- but also critiques the literary canon’s complicity in maintaining hierarchies of gender and class.
Keywords Key Words: Epic, Narrative, Portrayal of Female Characters, Rewriting Epic, Evolution of Culture, Hierarchy of Gender and Class.
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 8, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On 2026-10-26
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