RUNNING HEAD: Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci and The Last Supper during the Renaissance Period Humanities February 14‚ 2010 The Renaissance period is known as a period of the rebirth of Greek ideas. The works of this time were more individualized and the artists had more artistic freedom then were allowed in the Medieval or Middle Ages. One of the greatest individuals of the Renaissance time period was Leonardo Da Vinci. Not only was Da Vinci a great artist‚ he was also the
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Writing Task C Rationale I chose to write an extra chapter for the book ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood. This book is about the Republic of Gilead‚ a dictatorship‚ where most women are infertile due to nuclear waste. The few fertile women become ‘Handmaids’‚ birth-mothers for the upper-class. The main character is Offred‚ who became a Handmaid after attempting to escape Gilead with her daughter and husband‚ Luke. She was separated from them became a Handmaid in the house of the
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“Happy ending” is Margaret Atwood short fiction story about two undeveloped character‚ whom she called John and Mary. The story itself is very different from most of other short stories‚ Atwood present six different stories with all same character and each story provide different plot with the same conclusion. However‚ what stood out most is Atwood visibly addressed the stereotypical belief women are inferior to men‚ representing the gender bias against women. Firstly‚ the stereotypical
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beautifyingnaturalism of the worst kind. I am horrified by it! Simply junk!”(Novak) It is not surprising thatscholars misunderstood Dali’s depiction of such a sacred theme as the Last Supper. “[Thepainting’s] sentimentality bordering on kitsch caused disgust in some religious quarters”(Shanes). For example‚ the scene of the Last Supper was so dogmatic and almost untouchable‚ itprompted Roman Inquisition in the sixteenth century to start an official inquiry into possibleheresy of the artist Veronese because
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MARGARET ATWOOD: “SPOTTY-HANDED VILLIANESSES: PROBLEMS OF FEMALE BAD BEHAVIOUR IN THE CREATION OF LITERATURE” BUI CONTEXT Margaret Atwood is once of Canada’s best known literary composers. She is best known for her ability as an author of novels such as Alias Grace‚ Bodily Harm‚ Hairball‚ Rape Fantasies‚ and the highly acclaimed The Handmaid’s Tale‚ which was later made into a movie. These works establish her as a feminist writer‚ raising issues of women in literature‚ the difficulties associated
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The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood relates a story taking place in a dystopian society where Christian fundamentalists enforce their beliefs. Their society shows what family values might look like if they were enforced. Women stay at home gardening and having babies. If women are unable or refuse to do so they are marginalized and sometimes executed. Throughout the book Margaret Atwood uses flowers as a symbol of life or fertility‚ to describe the women in Gilead and to disguise terrifying things
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of men?" She rhetorically highlights the unrealistic expectation placed upon women by not only men‚ but women also‚ which Atwood notes is an ideal portrayed in literature across the board. The point is however‚ it’s the flawed female personas that we can recall‚ she alludes to Lady Macbeth and Ophelia‚ and rightfully- who can actually remember more of the latter? Atwood metaphorically refers to female "bad" characters as "keys to doors we need to open‚ and as mirrors in which we can see more
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Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood‚ the author describes a society led by a government with complete control‚ not allowing citizens to have any freedom whatsoever. Atwood uses story as a construct and character roles to convey the theme‚ explaining that the government relies on dehumanization to control the people and how this is wrong. Firstly‚ Atwood uses story as a construct to convey the theme of the government relying on dehumanization to take control of the people. After Offred explains what happened
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(Ayatollah Khomeini turned Iran into an Islamic Republic.) Not only were alarming events like these happening in Middle Eastern countries like Iran‚ they were happening in our own backyard. Neuman goes on to say: By 1984‚ in the United States‚ the gains women had achieved during the previous decade had come under attack from several directions. During Ronald Reagan’s presidency‚ women made up an increasing percentage of those in the lowest-paid occupations‚ and they made no gains or lost ground
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Author Margaret Atwood’s writing has been shaped by one particular movement- the push for women’s rights in the 1960s and 1970s. When Atwood was a college student‚ “a woman was expected to follow one path: to marry in her early 20s‚ start a family quickly‚ and devote her life to homemaking” (“The 1960s-70s”). Employers assumed that the females who did work would soon become pregnant‚ so ladies were unlikely to advance in their careers. What money they did earn was controlled by their husbands
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