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    his enduring power and artistic qualities‚ and his audiences are emotionally and intellectually engaged and thus more responsive to Sadat’s deliverance of their own views on their beliefs and aspirations. “Spotty-Handed Villainesses” (1994) by Margaret Atwood‚ using subversive irony and humour‚ forces her audiences to deconstruct the deception of ‘evil’ women within literature and with her enduring power engages her audiences in cries for the dismantling of social gender roles. The speeches set for

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    might be different they all have the same ending which results in a happy marriage and death. This leads Atwood to make the point that endings tend to be generic and the real "meat" of a book is in the middle.  2)  Theme-  In Happy Endings the theme focuses on that the middle of a story is far more important than the end. Atwood argues that most endings are generic and non creative. Atwood feels that that an emphasis on the middle of a story leads to a better‚ and more developed story.  3)

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    matters is not the ending‚ but what takes place in the middle. In part A of “Happy Endings” the characters‚ John and Mary lead what seems to be a simple and healthy life (Atwood‚ pp.

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    “Free speech is not to be regulated. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today‚ even for the same performance.” –Michael Douglas Undoubtedly‚ a speaker moulds his/ her speech by the principles of purpose‚ and the audience who are to receive the given speech. More than this however- the responder’s context also shapes the way in which they interpret a speech. Michael Douglas- famed actor and movie director‚ contrasts an audience’s response in his quote‚ to emphasise that a responder’s

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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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    Women’s Liberation Movement Kalanit Knackstedt “Rape Fantasies‚” by Margaret Atwood is a short story about the narrator‚ Estelle‚ recalling to an anonymous male a controversial conversation she has with a group of her female co-workers during their lunch hour. Estelle is critical of her female peers’ rape fantasies; however she fails to see the fallacies in hers. Estelle portrays herself as a heroine who tells stories to threatening males to compel them to not assault her.Atwood uses a temporal setting

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    What is it to be human? What makes US human? "Homelanding" by Margret Atwood does a pretty good job of describing these question. This story is describing us‚ the humans‚ to other beings. She talks about our looks‚ our habits‚ and what very deeply connects us together. The story is from the point of view of humans communicating with other beings. The over all purpose though‚ is the idea of someone’s memories and experiences are much more important to learning how they act and live than their leaders

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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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    Margaret Atwood’s ‘‘Happy Endings’’ first appeared in the 1983 Canadian collection‚ Murder in the Dark‚ and it was published in 1994 for American audiences in Good Bones and Simple Murders. Subtitled ‘‘Short Fiction and Prose Poems‚’’ Murder in the Dark featured four types of works: autobiographical sketches‚ travel notes‚ experimental pieces addressing the nature of writing‚ and short pieces dealing with typical Atwood themes‚ notably the relationship between the sexes. ‘‘Happy Endings‚’’ which

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    Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song” is a story that has been retold for generations; a tale of beauty‚ distress‚ and the ultimate betrayal. Margaret Atwood’s allusion‚ and the title of the poem itself set the stage for a story in which the readers already know the ending. As the siren leads her victims to their death‚ she seems bored‚ unamused‚ and ultimately unhappy. However‚ the siren uses her appearance‚ and her ability to gain sympathy in the minds of her targets‚ to lead them to their demise

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