OPHELIA TALKS BACK Based on Margaret Atwood’s ‘Gertrude Talks Back’ Why yes I do believe I am fair‚ and I don’t need you to confirm it. Honey you were never invited to my wedding. God has given me one face‚ and I can do whatever the hell I please with it‚ thank you very much. Frankly you could do with a little heavy foundation and a wig yourself; it might just conceal the premature balding and all the frown lines you’ve accumulated from moping. You looked like a tired old man some days. It
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Colin Stone 10 October 2012 3.05 Free Writing Practice Dr. Cooper Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song” is written with a crafty yet concise one-sided dialogue with a tone of an almost dark and malicious sense of humor. It is a clever work containing one of the three alluring Sirens‚ alluding to Homer’s The Odyssey‚ successfully captivating a mariner’s attention to “save” her. The poet starts the slow and soft with an appealing cry and by using the device of enjambment‚ is able to speed up and introduce
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In “Reasonably Insane: affect and Crake in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”‚ Ariel Kroon claims that Crake is a product of a desensitized society that profits from suffering and normalizes it and that he destroys the system by behaving exactly as he is expected to. In Oryx and Crake‚ Margaret Atwood introduces as character that drifts away from the concept of the mad scientist. The author argues that‚ instead of a person who fails to stick to the societal values‚ Crake is presented as an extremely
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the Perfect One. In the last few years‚ scientists have invented different methods for fertility‚ such as medicines‚ donors‚ In Vitro Fertilization‚ and many others. Methods like these are for men and women who are infertile. In Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake‚ Crake has figured out a way to keep a lot of things away from the Crakers‚ like where they came from and why they are different from snowman. Science technology is growing every day in Crake’s “Paradice” lab. In today’s world
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feeling. The opening sentence of the first chapter is startlingly bleak‚ "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium." From this the reader can instantly surmise that something is amiss‚ and thenceforth views the dystopian world of Gilead through Atwood’s intensely vivid descriptive prose‚ which is another technique that is used to great effect throughout the novel. Atwood describes Gilead through almost every sensory medium‚ in minute detail. Staying with the description of the gymnasium that the
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After analysing Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Alia Dharssi’s ‘Completely failing women’: Why the Zika epidemic is really a women’s rights crisis‚ it is clear to see the detrimental effect that external factors like state leaders and environmental conditions have on women’s’ freedom and independance. Government’s like Gilead and Brazil claim to find proper solutions to different crises‚ but ultimately use them as an excuse to seize power for their own benefits at the expense of people they
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turned into oppression of any who did not share his vision and the slaughter of those who were not of the ‘pure’ Aryan race he demanded • He encouraged the fanatical adulation of the young through the Hitler Youth movement - a situation echoed in Atwood’s Gilead when she writes in chapter 4 of the Guardians of the Faith that: ‘The young ones are often the most dangerous‚ the most fanatical’ • Books that were considered to have any seditious or undesirable content were burned by the Nazis. Gilead
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Letter to America In Margaret Atwood’s “Letter to America” she expresses her disappointment over the current state of America. She mentions how much America has changed throughout her years and goes on to compare the America of her youth. This essay discusses the changes that America goes through. Margaret is trying to show how people are feeling about watching America begin to decline. This essay discusses Americas faults from a Canadian perspective. Atwood moved from Canada to America to attend
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poems also had contrasting tones. In the poem written by Homer‚ words were used such as sharp sword‚ strong hands‚ and ravishing voices. These words set a more exciting tone that might keep the reader interested. On the other hand‚ in Margaret Atwood’s poem‚ words were used like beached skull‚ dead‚ squatting‚ maniacs‚ fatal‚ and boring. These words set a depressing and gloomy tone. These two poets had partially opposing views of the mythical sirens. Both wrote about their irresistible song
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nothing at all” (“Weasel Words: The Art of Saying Nothing at All 414) This use of quotation is used to explain the meaning of “weasel” words and how important it is. It engages in a conversation between the writer and the other voices by exemplifying Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale to explain how Aunt Lydia uses the weasel words to control handmaids. This use of quotation is effective because it really helps the reader more understand the meaning of “weasel words” and how it can affect people’s lives
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