Re (claim) of Identity: A Feministic Perspective on Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Margaret Atwood has published many volumes of poetry and short stories‚ but is best known as a novelist. Her Alias Grace (1996) is one of several novels focusing on women’s issues. Initially‚ Margaret Atwood’s all leading characters are victims of quest of survival but their quest of survival make them able to face the challenges of their life. As a result‚ in her world of fiction quest of survival is agony for the
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Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is a short story that describes a mother and her two daughters that have different personalities. Mrs. Johnson’s daughters‚ Dee and Maggie‚ grew up in the same house around the same time but have experienced different lives. Throughout the story‚ the mother depicts the different personalities and physical features of her two daughters. The traits that each daughter possess are displayed when Dee returns home for a visit. Mrs. Johnson’s older daughter‚ Dee‚ is a self-centered
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Grantham‚ England‚ Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s Conservative Party leader and in 1979 was elected prime minister‚ the first woman to hold the position. During her three terms‚ she cut social welfare programs‚ reduced trade union power and privatized certain industries. Thatcher resigned in 1991 due to unpopular policy and power struggles in her party. She died on April 8‚ 2013‚ at age 87. Politician and former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was born as Margaret Hilda Roberts on October
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character is reveal. In The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood‚ Penelope faces this exact scenario when she is left behind in Ithaca as Odysseus leaves to fight in the Trojan war‚ losing the only person she can trust. In the absence of Odysseus‚ Penelope’s complex character is revealed. Atwood effectively uses diction‚ point of view‚ syntax and tone to characterize Penelope as a skeptical‚ needy and loyal character. The first person perspective used by Margaret Atwood in The Penelopiad gives us valuable
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“Happy Endings” In the story “Happy endings” by Margaret Atwood‚ the theme is‚ the only similar part of life for all of us is death. But what is different is how people in this story live and die. In the story Margaret wrote‚ “You’ll have to face it‚ the endings are the same however you slice it.” It is the beginning and the end of our lives are similar‚ but the middle separates us from how we lived. What the author tries to say in this story is that all situations start
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Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23‚ 1867 on a Louisiana plantation‚Walker transformed herself from an uneducated farm worker of the twentieth century’s most successful‚ self-made women entrepreneurs. Orphaned at age seven‚ she often said‚ "I got my start by giving myself a start." She and her older sister‚ Louvenia‚ survived by working in the cotton fields of Vicksburg‚ Mississippi. At 14‚ she married Moses McWilliams to escape abuse from her cruel brother-in-law‚ Jesse Powell. During the
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author of “Graduation”‚ and Alice Walker‚ author of “Beauty”‚ are two teenage girls growing up in the segregated south with similar struggles. The two essays by Angelou and Walker are about the harsh realities each encounters through racism‚ and how they each overcome hardships when the odds are stacked against them. Angelou and Walker both articulately narrate their life experiences with similar descriptions‚ tones‚ and writing styles. Angelou and Walker are each alike in their writing since
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Frost and Journey to the Interior by Margaret Atwood portray the concept of journeys to a great extent. These poems will show a whole other perspective of a literal inner and imaginative journey and a metaphorical physical journey. In the poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ Robert Frost provides a look at the choices one has in life‚ how one comes to decide which choices are better‚ and what the consequences of these choices are. In “Journey to the Interior”‚ Margaret Atwood uses the physical terrain of the
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Who is Alice Walker? Walker is an African-American Author‚ civil and a women’s right activist‚ born on February 9‚ 1944‚ in Eatonton‚ Georgia. Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ where she became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1964‚ with the assistance of Staughton Lynd‚ (a historian teacher/friend) transferred to Sarah Lawrence College. Walker is most famous for writing‚ “The Color Purple” which she won the Pulitzer award for fiction as well as the National Book award
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takes them somewhere else while they look at it‚ and they can live in what they see even if it is only for a moment or two. This feeling alone is one that can inevitably make a piece of art so priceless. Death by Landscape is a beautiful story. Margaret Atwood tells the story of a young girl named Lois‚ her childhood and
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