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Helen In The Penelopiad
In this novel The Penelopiad there are many people in this story that I am fond of and many that I dislike very much. Penelope tries to portray herself as the good one in the story but she is almost just as bad as the others. She tries to describes and persuade the reader to make her seem innocent but she is really not. The character in the novel that I most admire are the maids because of what they had to go through pertaining to the brutal orders that Penelope gave them. The person who I most despise in this novel is Helen which Penelope had a strong hatred toward.
This story brings out everyone worst image but I truly despised Helen who was self-absorbed in many ways and bragged about her so to speak, hard life with all the men she had to
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