Duplicitous schemers and femme fatales

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Howells further suggests that "Atwood is playing with two levels of myth here: the Homeric myth of faithful Penelope and cultural myths of women as either submissive and domestic or as duplicitous schemers and femme fatales." Where does Penelope fall within these versions of women?

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