written well into his career. It is also one of the most popular. Margaret Thatcher‚ former prime minister of Great Britain‚ once said‚ “In politics‚ if you want anything said‚ ask a man; if you want anything done‚ ask a woman.” Novels and plays often portray circumstances that reflect Margaret Thatcher’s sentiment. In the play Medea‚ one of the most powerful and enduring of Greek Tragedies‚ some of the characters portrayed Margaret Thatcher’s sentiment by the actions they have committed
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A 1991 play‚ Wit written by Margaret Edson explore a women’s life‚ Vivian Bearing‚ is suffering from the final stage of ovarian cancer and being treated with a full dose chemotherapy experiment for eight months. She finds out she has cancer and has to deal with it all by herself with no family members and not many friends. Vivian is a literature professor of seventeenth century poetry and also specializes in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. (Edson pg. 5) She understood her life in an analytical security
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Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin is a meta-fiction that is deliberately deceptive. Structured like nesting Russian dolls‚ it is a novel-within-a novel within another novel‚ blending three narratives interspersed with newspaper clippings‚ a letter‚ and society announcements. It uses these narratives to weave an interchangeable story‚ slowly making it become clearer over time‚ with the use of darkness imagery‚ interlaces allusions to myths‚ fairy tales‚ literature‚ and the Bible to explore
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Mrs. McIntyre 11 English H 1 October 2013 The Devil and Tom Walker: A Love Story “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a short story that revolves around supernatural events‚ nature‚ and challenges its own characters to change their pasts. For instance‚ the Devil in “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a supernatural entity who promises fortune if Tom sells his soul. The supernatural events displayed here display the emotional wishes of both Tom and his wife. He is miserable living with his wife and cannot
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The poem “Bored” by Margaret Atwood‚ is a poem that tells many different things in each line. It is a poem that evokes many different feelings in me such as feelings of boredom‚ happiness and sadness. This poem has some ambiguous meanings to me and maybe to the writer as well. “bored” is a poem that about boredom of course but also about learning‚ paying attention‚ and most of all about love and loss. In this paper I will attempt to show you just exactly how I have come by my conclusions of this
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Title: Sent Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Text Type: Novel Date Read: January 2010 “Sent” by Margaret Peterson Haddix is the second novel in “The Missing” series. It is about four teenagers; Jonah‚ Chip‚ Alex and Katherine. In the first book “Found”‚ we find out that thirty-six teenagers had been stolen from history and accidently put into the twenty-first century. To fix time they have to go back to their original century. But of course‚ the teenagers don’t want to go back to their earlier
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Alice Walker the author of the short story “Everyday Use.” Alice uses the three types of characterization to develop the character Dee. These methods are what bring the characters to life in the reader’s imagination. Treat others nice‚ a cliché phrase that people hear daily. Authors use that in writing in a way. Showing how a character responds‚ treats‚ or reacts to others develops the character‚ this is one of the three methods of characterization. Dee a one of main character in “Everyday Use
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The short story “The Devil and Tom walker” by Washington Irving is a classic dark romantic story. Although the story has many elements in it‚ symbolism is seen the most. The three main symbols are the Devil being a representation of temptations in life‚ the forest represents the bad side of life and the trees showing the lives of many men that have done bad. The first symbol is the Devil. The Devil in the story represents temptations. Early in the story Tom’s wife goes out to find riches in the
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Name: Course: Instructor: Date: Moral in "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood Thesis: If fiction is supposed to appeal to our ethical nature in Atwood’s opinion‚ what is the happy ending‚ or moral‚ we are being asked to look for and help society attain in “Happy Endings”? I. Obstacles are a natural part of life as seen with how Atwood portrays the lives of typical people as they struggle to overcome various obstacles. (a) While they all have individual differences‚ these plots ultimately end in the
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Poetry test Thursday October 3 You fit into me By: Margaret Atwood You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fishhook an open eye What initially appears to be a silly love poem quickly becomes dark and harrowing. Atwood overturns the expected definition of “hook and eye” and replaces it with an image of brutality and violence. The power of this setup/letdown formula often hinges‚ as in this poem‚ on the multiple meanings of words. “You fit into me” captures Atwood’s interest in the mechanisms
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