What feels like a letter to a lover‚ Margaret Atwood uses her poem “Variation on the word Sleep” to depict the feelings of love‚ lust and desire. Atwood uses the persona of someone who feels the need to protect as the narrator of her piece. He tone is intimate and personal and her use of imagery captures the audience as Atwood metaphorically describes the speaker’s yearning. Through the use of imagery and an intimate tone‚ Atwood shows multiple variations of the word sleep by incorporating three
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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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Superstition If you step on a crack‚ you will break your mamma back‚ keep cats away from babies because they suck the breath of the child‚ and cross my heart and hope to die‚ cut my throat if I tell a lie are examples of some superstitions that people believe in. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ superstition is a belief or practice resulting from ignorance‚ fear of the unknown‚ trust in magic or chance‚ or a false conception of causation. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Jim and
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Is Mark Twain A racist? Many believe certain things about Twain’s "Great American novel‚" makes it a racist book‚ like the overuse of the word‚ "nigger‚" and the given depiction of the black slave‚ Jim. However‚ there is a substantial amount of evidence that this book was not written out of hate‚ but in hope that Twain could change the ideals of skin color of the white people around him. The first and foremost question most people ask when they read the novel is‚ "was Mark Twain a racist?" There
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christianity because anyways‚ prayers aren’t answered for Huck. Huck would rather believe in superstition‚ such as thinking everything is a bad sign‚ for example‚ when a spider burns in a candle or when Huck touches snakeskin. Huck also has a magic hairball and when is given money‚ it supposedly tells the future. Huck and Jim find any signs like these
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are particularly strong‚ and most bones and flesh are rapidly digested. On the other hand‚ hair and other keratinous substances (e.g. turtle shell)‚ and chitin (e.g. insect cuticle)‚ are broken down very slowly. Hair sometimes accumulates as “hairballs” within the stomach‚ and may later be regurgitated. The bony scales along the back are the "armor"‚ and some species are considered more heavily armored than others. These scales protect‚ to a large degree‚ the delicate inner organs from injury
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Close Reading Analysis: The Handmaid’s Tale Often times when one reads a piece of literary work‚ the way that its’ themes and storyline are interpreted is truly dependant upon the reader’s individual beliefs and morals. The same passage from a novel or poem can be seen in completely opposite perspectives from two different readers‚ despite the fact that they contain the same literary text. By definition‚ this is what close reading is. It is taking a passage (or passages) from a work of literature
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Atwood’s dystopian classic was influenced by texts such as George Orwell’s 1984. Atwood creates an imagined world and society ruled by a fundamentalist government and a Christian theocracy in the place of a democratic government; which have enforced actions such as totalitarian violence and the suppression of information to the people of Gilead which would be strongly opposed in today’s society. However‚ the terrifying and oppressed setting fits well into the genre’s conventions. Atwood’s feminist
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Distinction of Classes and Marxism in The Handmaids Tale Marxism‚ in broad terms‚ is a theory of social change based on sympathy for the working class. The Marxist literary theory involves looking at a class struggle (working vs. ruling). In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale a class struggle is seen between the ruling class and everyone else in the Republic of Gilead. This text can be analyzed through the lens of Marxist literary theory at many points and much of that text can be used to prove
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that she prays all day. Women were not only barred from working‚ but also followed up closely to ensure that they do not go against this directive. Those found guilty of breaking that law were either incarcerated or executed. Similarly‚ women in Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” were barred from working in sectors that would earn them income. On the contrary‚ women worked as servants and slaves with men being their masters and despots. Men used women as sex slaves. Actually‚ men had the right to rape
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