1) Daddy by Sylvia Plath You do not do‚ you do not do Any more‚ black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years‚ poor and white‚ Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy‚ I have had to kill you. You dies before I had time— Marble-heavy‚ a bag full of God‚ Ghastly statue with one grey toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach‚ du. In the
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“How are the two female protagonists Offred from “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Magaret Atwood and Celie from “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker oppressed by men‚ in what ways are their situations similar and how do they deal with the pressure and abuse?” Abstract The purpose of this essay is to look at how the two protagonist women‚ Offred from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Celie from “The Color Purple” are treated in literature. This essay aims to answer the question: “How are the two protagonist women
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accentuating the fundamentality of language and learning‚ through their use of rhetorical devices. Both Doris Lessing’s personal encounters with the Zimbabwe inequities‚ within her speech “On not winning the Nobel Prize” and Margaret Atwood’s “Spotty-handed Villainess”‚ fundamentally highlight the significance of language and learning as a means to encourage and advocate social change within its audience- primarily through the speeches’ clever use of rhetorical devices. Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize
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Margaret Atwood ‘Spotty Handed Villainesses’ 1994: Critic: Elzbieta Korolczuk: Author of: “One woman leads to another- Female Identity in the works of Margaret Atwood” States: “Each character is desperately trying to acquire a stable self-concept.” ->Implies Margaret Atwood has not done this‚ as she forces them to choose between these identities. However‚ evidently‚ seen in Margaret Atwood’s speech‚ these two sides of a woman exist. Theme: Identity of a Woman/equality. In order to portray a
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Centre Number Student Number CATHOLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2009 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION English (Advanced) Paper 2 - Modules Morning Session Tuesday‚ 11 August 2009 Total marks - 60 Pages 2-4 General Instructions • Reading time - 5 minutes • Working time - 2 hours • • Write using blue or black pen Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of this page Attempt ONE question from Questions 3-7 Allow about 40 minutes for this section
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Past and present‚ Offred’s peers play a huge role in how she narrates The Handmaid’s Tale. In the last few chapters of this reading‚ Offred encounters her old friend‚ Moira‚ who is now working as a prostitute at a secret club. In the times before biblical religion was the only form of governance‚ Moira was described as a fiery and rebellious woman‚ who was always there for Offred. While in the center‚ she teaches Offred how to care for the other women and keep her wits about her during this horrific
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Crake is everything that Jimmy hoped to be‚ and when he realizes what Crake has done to him‚ all he can do is hate him. He feels that “some line was crossed‚ some boundary transgressed” when he finds himself alone in a world that was no longer his (Atwood‚ 136). This is similar to how Offred feels when she finds that her dear friend has given in‚ the only thing Offred had thought was impossible for her to do. Every action and word that Moira had ever uttered affected Offred in some way. Offred’s reaction
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It even sounds like as if a friend of yours is telling you their story. It isn’t straight to the point‚ there are point outs of minor details that you shouldn’t even realize. Atwood must have also put in Offred’s flashbacks to show the reader that she did have a peaceful life before this. One where she was free and had her family. Then the war began and destroyed it all. Now she’s placed as a Handmaid to serve for this family
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eerily out of the darkness somewhere off to the side: ‘Now that I’m dead I know everything.’1 And then a single spotlight reveals centre stage a small grey-haired female figure robed in black sitting on a throne; she begins to speak. This is Margaret Atwood‚ doubly imaged here in performance as Penelope‚ for I am describing a staged reading of part of The Penelopiad by the writer herself. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus is one of the first three books in a new series‚ The Myths‚ published
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with hateful messages towards women. Even though the governing laws consider men and women as equal‚ but the mistreatment of women continues to be the headline of every newspaper. First Novel - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood was first published in 1985. The novel displays a society called Republic of Gilead that
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