A Low Art by Margaret Atwood (analysis)

Name: Joanna R. Soriano
Grade and Section: 11-Smith
Date: September 5, 2018

Title: A Low Art

Explanation of the title:
Low art is for the masses, accessible and easily comprehended. It describes a story wherein some parts of it are being change or altered through the change of point of view. It is an art of storytelling wherein the storyteller revises some part of it and make it like the real story so that the listeners may believe what are they telling. It is also an art of gossiping.

Author/Writer: Margaret Atwood

Characters:

Protagonist/s: Penelope
Antagonist/s: Odysseus

Setting:

Integral:
Backdrop: Now that I'm dead

Difficult words in the literature and their definitions:
 Factoids- an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print.
 Plausible- possibly true: believable or realistic.
Compulsion- the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint.
Rampage- violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled or destructive.
 Jeering- make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice.

Plot:
Exposition: The story begins with Penelope saying "now that I'm dead, I know everything." Penelope begins to describe the afterlife.

Rising action: Penelope admits that even she often believes to Odysseus, thinking that he would not lie to her since she was such a loyal wife. Odysseus was good in playing tricks and lies and he even do it to Penelope.

Climax: Penelope wanted to scream at other women and tell them not to be like her. Penelope admits that she always knew that Odysseus was tricky, but that she pretended not to see that side of him.

Falling action: After several days, Penelope realized that people are talking behind her back, they were making fun of her and they were laughing behind her back.

Denouement: Penelope will take her revenge to Odysseus. Penelope is determined to tell her own story to show the real story that Odysseus is great in making fools and lies and to show us that the real victim in the story is her.

Theme: Take a stand for something that you know is right.

Explanation:
The theme tells that we should stand for ourselves to fight for what's right. Even if we are women, we should speak for ourselves and we should also learn to listen on the opinions and ideas of others because we will not know and discover the the truth if we will not listen on both sides because sometimes the words that we are saying have a positive and a negative meanings.


Symbol/s used in the literature and their meaning:

 Sack full of words- it shows that all the things that we want to hear or the things that we have heard have some negative and positive meanings.
 Sound like an owl- this line shows that people would not want to listen to everything that Penelope would say.

Application (impact) of the literature to the present generation:

The story shows that even though we are women, we should stand for ourselves and fight for the things that we know is right. It also shows us that in order to make us happy, we should be open to speak and listen to others because we wiil not know and discover the truth if we will not listen on others opinion and if we will not speak for ourselves. The story also shows the unequal treatment between a man and a woman. It shows that in the past or in the history, all women are treated like a useless person and the men were always be the protagonist. The story tells us that we need to be fair, men and women should have an equal and fair treatment in our community.


Your recommendations to the future readers of this literature:

I recommend to the future readers of this literature that they must know some information about the stories in the history so that it would be easy for them to understand the story of "a low art" and so that they will easily determined the real message of the story that it portrays. I also.recommend that the readers should read the whole story of 'The Penelopiad" so that they will understand the story better and so that they will know how Penelope sacrifice just to keep her marriage with Odysseus work.



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Noted and checked by: MARK KEVIN P. HONORIO