MARGARET ATWOOD: “SPOTTY-HANDED VILLIANESSES: PROBLEMS OF FEMALE BAD BEHAVIOUR IN THE CREATION OF LITERATURE” BUI CONTEXT Margaret Atwood is once of Canada’s best known literary composers. She is best known for her ability as an author of novels such as Alias Grace‚ Bodily Harm‚ Hairball‚ Rape Fantasies‚ and the highly acclaimed The Handmaid’s Tale‚ which was later made into a movie. These works establish her as a feminist writer‚ raising issues of women in literature‚ the difficulties associated
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treatment. This is relevant to Margaret Atwood’s speech in 1994‚ Spotty Handed Villainesses (hereafter referred to as Villainesses)‚ and Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech in 1995‚ Keynote Address at the Beijing World Conference on Women (hereafter referred to as Keynote). The ability of a speech to resonate with audiences is dependent on their effective constructive of rhetoric to support the orator’s main ideas. In Atwood’s ‘Villainesses’‚ aims to captivate audiences and arguably has the most textual integrity
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Margaret Atwood – ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ ________________________________________ 1. Atwood uses a personal anecdote of herself as a child‚ and then her daughter‚ which becomes an intriguing motif throughout her speech 2. Atwood frequently adopts an ironic tone in order to appeal to both Logos and Pathos. She uses logic (Logos) to undermine logic (appealing to Pathos) and this can be shown in the paradoxical line ‘We con-artists do tell the truth’. Overall this paradoxical voice and polyvocal
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Title: I was a disappointment to my Dad 2004 was the year my father developed a taste for schedules and routines. It was‚ and still is‚ his way of making sure that things are in order‚ and I suppose it was his way‚ when we were younger‚ of ensuring there was some consistency in our daily lives. When Mum left‚ I think that was all he could think to do – giving us something fixed‚ something to fall back on‚ something to let us know that our world still stood firm even as his was falling
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makes the selected speeches worthy of critical study? Margaret Atwood’s Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) and Anwar Sadat’s Statement to the Knesset (1977) are both speeches worthy of critical study because of their fascinating ideas and values. “There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good‚ she was very‚ very good‚ And when she was bad‚ she was horrid!” Atwood begins her speech with an anecdote and quotes this famous nursery rhyme
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“Free speech is not to be regulated. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today‚ even for the same performance.” –Michael Douglas Undoubtedly‚ a speaker moulds his/ her speech by the principles of purpose‚ and the audience who are to receive the given speech. More than this however- the responder’s context also shapes the way in which they interpret a speech. Michael Douglas- famed actor and movie director‚ contrasts an audience’s response in his quote‚ to emphasise that a responder’s
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early age of being left-handed. As students are now allowed to ues their natural hand to complete projects and tasks there are noticeable differences in styles students complete assignments. Left-handed students in the past were made write right-handed. Teachers took writing utensils out of the left-handed students and placed the utensil in the right hand of the student‚ eliminating left-handed students making it difficult for any research to be done with the left-handed population. By studying
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Left-Handed Toddlers By Carma Haley Shoemaker [pic] One in every 10 people is left-handed‚ and males are one and a half times more likely to be left-handed then females‚ according to Lefthanders International. Medical researchers have looked long and hard for what causes people to be left- or right-handed. Their answer? The same reason why brown-eyed people have brown eyes: genes that manifest their trait one out of every 10 chances. With 90 percent of the population being right-handed‚ how
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Being left-handed could even get a person accused and convicted of witchcraft. Even within the past century‚ left-handedness was frowned upon. Teachers and parents of a young lefty would sometimes tie the left hand behind the child’s back to discourage use. Nuns in Catholic schools would give a tap in the wrist with a ruler to chastise the child for using his or her left hand. Due to these punishments‚ there are few true left-handed people in their sixties or older. Those who are left-handed usually
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The Difference Between Being Left-Handed and Right-Handed About 90 percent of the world’s population is right-handed and only 10 percent is left-handed. It is exceptionally rare for a true ambidexterity. Most left-handed people develop some mixed-handedness by living in a world where most everyday objects are for right-handed people (Balter‚ 2009). Balter says “one researcher hot on the trail of these issues is Natalie Uomini‚ an archeologist at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom”
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