good vs. evil. Whether it’s the innocent Hansel and Gretel vs. the evil cannibalistic witch; authors tended to paint the line separating the two through their uses of certain writing tools. The point Atwood attempts to drive into the reader is women’s naivety and overall downplay of rape. Margaret Atwood‚ author of Rape Fantasies‚ relies heavily on Irony and Characterization to get her point across. In the story Estelle‚ the narrator and main character‚ shares her rape fantasies along . In all of them
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THE CITY PLANNERS By Margaret Atwood Background Born in Canada in 1939‚ Margaret Atwood is an author‚ poet‚ critic‚ and essayist‚ feminist and social campaigner. Best known as a novelist‚ she is also an award-winning poetess. "The City-Planners” is critical of the monotony and false beauty of modern cities‚ suburbs and its architecture. The poem views modern life as empty‚ artificial‚ and its inhabitants as robotic and lacking in spirit. Analysis i. Main Subject The main theme is the poet’s
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Early stages include nyctalopia and tunnel vision (Bessant et al‚ n.d.). Advance stages comprise of complete loss of the central vision. As per Atwood and Finlay (1994) Retinitis Pigmentosa‚ RP‚ can be detected at different ages‚ ranging from birth to early adulthood. The latter incidence usually has more severe affects and reaches the advance stage where the patient experiences complete loss of
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warning designed by an author‚ built from issues of the present. Some of the most famous novels of all time are from a dystopian viewpoint; take War of the Worlds by H.G Wells for example. The texts I have examined are The Handmaids Tale‚ by Margaret Atwood and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. The power and impact on the reader on these text lies within its dystopian setting and therefore its ability to warn for the future‚ but are these predictions believable‚ and if so‚ do people really take these
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FGM: Handmaid’s Tale Essay Type 1: The clitoris is held between the thumb and the index finger and amputated with one stroke of a sharp blade. Type 2: Then the labia minora and the labia majora are lacerated. Type 3: Finally‚ the remaining tissue is sewn‚ leaving a 2-3 mm hole where a twig can be inserted for urine and menstrual fluid. Tie the legs from hip to ankle together for 6 weeks in order to help the tissue bond. No anesthesia is to be used. Hygiene need not be taken into consideration.
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ash-toned skin. However‚ in any stage of transformation‚ it is most easily identified by its ravenous and continuous hunger for human flesh (Atwood 84). A Wendigo’s hunger is believed to be so insatiable that one of first things it consumes is its own lips (Carlson 359). For Native Americans‚ encountering a Wendigo‚ whether by accident or
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sentence‚ where as the last line finishing off the sentence of the 8th stanza. The first line compares the landlady to an animal‚ a mean dangerous one‚ as the landlady is said to have a "lair"‚ and the last line makes reference to animal‚ as well‚ as Atwood uses the word "bacon". After the first stanza‚ or line‚ there is one three-line stanza‚ followed by a four-line stanza‚ then a five-line stanza‚ but then cuts back down to a four-line stanza‚ jumping to a six-line stanza‚ repeating a six-line stanza
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having an abortion‚ nor the right to claim ownership of the child. The women have no real identities‚ for what they wore‚ and where they stood in society‚ was who they were. The handmaids were distinguished by their "fairytale figure in a red cloak" (Atwood 9)‚ and served only for the purpose of reproduction. Some of the infertile women were kept in the house as
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essay will specifically focus on the maids who were hanged because of what was thought to be disloyalty. The maids were wrongly accused‚ and quite possibly framed to cover up for Penelope’s infedelity‚ as Atwood proposed. Therefore‚ The Odyssey fails to adequately tell the story of the maids. Atwood‚ however‚ recognized this injustice and wrote The Penelopiad to better explain the maids’ point of view and how gender‚ as well as class differences could have played a role in their actions. In The Odyssey
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11/17/14 Period 2 “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood The speaker in Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song” is one of the three sirens of Greek mythology. The sirens are known as half-woman‚ half-bird monsters who sing songs to lure sailors to their death. In the beginning of the poem‚ the speaker makes it seem as if she needs the sailor’s help. As the poem comes close to the end‚ it is apparent that the whole poem is actually the deadly song of the sirens. Margaret Atwood employs allusion‚ diction‚ and imagery
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