Margaret Atwood Research Paper

Only a handful of authors have been as successful as Margaret Atwood. She was born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. As a poet and novelist she 's won over 55 awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General 's Award and the Booker Prize five times (“Margaret Atwood”). Though she 's written over 40 novels and collections of poetry, her most notable works consist of The Handmaid 's Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Edible Woman, The Blind Assassin, and The Year of the Flood. She writes with lack of character 's emotion and impassively with much description but still involved in the stories. Atwood keeps recurring themes of female protagonists, oppression, and the nature in many of her works (“Sparknote”). Her literature style changes
Her dad, an entomologist, allowed young Margaret Atwood to explore the nearby Canadian wilderness(“Margaret Atwood a Biography”). Since this, she has wrote about the wilderness in contrast to civilization in many of her publications. In Cat 's Eye, Atwood makes the female main character 's dad an entomologist, living in Canada just like Atwood 's father in real life (“Cat 's”). Her background regarding Canadian lifestyles and society led her to write Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, one of Canada 's beloved novels on their national culture which is taught today at schools nationwide in Canada. She even has a collection of short shorties called Wilderness Tips. In Wilderness Tips, Atwood creates ten stories, one of which is entitled “Wilderness Tips”. The main character, George, lives in Canada and adheres to ancient cultural Canadian traditions and“treats the possessions and rituals of Wacousta Lodge with a tenderness, [and] a reverence” (226). He found his grandfather 's book called Wilderness Tips which stated everything one would need to know on how to survive by themselves in the wild. Atwood includes “how to build shelters, make clothing from skins, [and] find edible plants” (242). Another collection of short stories, Bluebeard 's Egg, contains a short called “Bluebeard 's Egg”. The story is told from a biased third person point of view where Ed is at fault for his and Sally 's disappointing relationship status. The book received its name by Sally relating her heart to a man with many wives ' egg; an egg with potential. Not an egg in the literal sense but one with “glowing softly as though there 's something red and hot inside it” (138). Also relating to Atwood 's tendency to use female characters and bias to females, this quote shows how she influences the reader to see Sally and all women 's future success. Atwood published a collection of poetry called The Animals in That