Doris Lessing’s On Not Winning the Nobel Prize (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) are both worthy speeches because they evoke a personal response in their intended audience and offer solutions to complex global issues. These issues are complex because they do not have a clear answer and hence‚ remains a controversial topic and reverberates across time. Therefore‚ the solutions offered by these speeches also resonates beyond the contextual audience and holds value for the
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despite varying contextual influences‚ this universal idea of power prevails in our texts. Both Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Handmaid’s) and George Miller’s 2015 action film “Mad Max: Fury Road” (Fury Road)‚ explore shifting power dynamics in gender roles as society changes and the ever-present nature of rebellion in society as humans fight for power. Atwood’s “Handmaid’s” reflects the suppression of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s due to the revival
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How did she come up with the plot for The Handmaid’s Tale? Atwood has always enjoyed writing Sci fi novels. The feminist and environmental views stemmed great from Atwood’s own personal advocacy of such things (Atwood‚ Interview by Rosenburg). What inspired her to write about womens’ rights and feminism? “The beginning of the feminist movement in the 1960s changed her attitude toward a self-destructive mindset that she later labeled a "post-Romantic collective delusion” (“The Handmaid’s Tale”).
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Odysseus by Homer in 800 B.C.‚ the main protagonist encountered the mythical creatures known as sirens and heard their song of death and deception. This creature in greek mythology has not only been portrayed in Homer’s work of course but also in Mary Atwood’s poem the "Siren Song". Farther than an age apart‚ both works demonstrate what the sirens do and their song of death however‚ they do not portray the creature the same way. For instance‚ in homer’s portrayal of the siren‚ they are described in the
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Homer’s epic poem Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus’ encounter with the Sirens and their deadly song which is shown in Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song.” When comparing each text‚ it is found that the Sirens are portrayed as temptresses that trap you with their beautiful‚ “honeyed voices.” The tone in the epic poem is bright in the beginning when Homer writes “Helios’ burning rays” and “the sun at high noon.” As the poem progresses‚ it takes on an ominous tone that shows Odysseus’ self-control
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double back in the dark‚ they re-embody themselves‚ they change costumes‚ they change key. They speak in new languages‚ they take on other meanings.2 This talk of resurrection‚ shape-changing‚ and surreptitious returns from the dead reminds us of Atwood’s fascination with the Gothic‚ and true to form‚ The Penelopiad is her Gothic version of Homer’s Odyssey told through the voice of Penelope‚ speaking from beyond the grave as she tells her life story in the form of a confession‚ spinning ‘a thread
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“Training” and “Rape Fantasies”. These short stories were chosen because of her narrative style and the fact that the entire plots appear to be balance. What the critics have said about these three major short stories are: “In Atwood’s story “Polarities”‚ to read Atwood’s description of insanity by social definition and of psychic iconoclasm in “Polarities” and surfacing in conjunction with contemporary works which analyze the social construction of reality is to realize that what Atwood calls ‘mythologizing’
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this poem to symbolize the power that the male gender have over women today. Even though while reading the poem we feel as though we are looking at a photograph‚ when really we have a poem describing what the photograph would look like‚ consider Atwood’s poem “This is a Photograph of Me” as an example open form poem because she uses the photograph to symbolize the speaker’s feelings of how she sees herself on the outside. Atwood uses irony through the title of the poem by leading us believe that
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In Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale‚” the dystopian world is the concept of using women to conceived‚ without the revival of intimacy. Offred‚ the narrator‚ tells the readers about the conditions she experiences in Gilead‚ the theocratic and totalitarian world which has replaced America. Everything about the novel is a direct assault to the feminine perspective‚ wherein common women‚ such as Offred‚ is used as conceiving vessels without the freedom to love‚ make relationships‚ and make their
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It is the journey‚ not the arrival‚ that ultimately transforms the traveller - particularly for imaginative journeys‚ which often occur spontaneously and is undecided in its destination. The experiences one encounter during their travel/travail is what evolves them to better understanding of themselves and the world‚ inspires them to spiritual reform‚ which constitutes the educative and/or therapeutic qualities of the imaginative journey. While the philanthropic vision of Coleridge‚ in This Lime
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