government work to combat. In Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale‚ a dystopian society seeks to counteract this violence as well as rampant birth defects with a system that completely strips women of their rights. In the world she has created‚ Atwood explores the theme of how persecution and oppression can be justified as protection. In the novel’s society‚ religious propaganda expunges leadership of all guilt and women are forbidden to read‚ highlighting Atwood’s connection between both the suppression
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Throughout Chapter 14 of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale ‚ Atwood focuses on fertility and rebellion as a central theme. For example when Offred says on page 80 “ I would like to steal something from this room.I would like to take some small thing…” ‚ in otherwords Offred strolls down the stairs to the living room‚ where she stoops in her doled out area for the Ceremony and thinks about stealing something which proves that Offred is planning an act of rebellion against the household.In spite of
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Atwood’s novel do not seem to line up with one another. Atwood offers a summary of The Tempest at the end of the novel and this summary describes how Prospero ends the play‚ “Prospero finished the play with an epilogue‚ in which he tells the audience that since his magic spells have now been overthrown‚ he must remain imprisoned on the island unless the audience pardons him‚ and sets him free by using its own magic to applaud the play‚” (Atwood 297). This ending shows the reader that Prospero is at
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grief in the word “weeping”. These images are focused around a seemingly fertile garden; Atwood suggests here that Serena is mourning her lack of fertility. We also see that the tulips of the garden are described as being “red” and “a darker crimson” bearing similarities to being “cut” and starting to “heal”. The reader experiences imagery of bleeding and pain linked to the image of the fertile flower. Atwood suggests here that the sight of fertility in Serena’s garden is painful and that she is
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Canadian literature is but a small part of the literature that is in bookstores across the globe. Students in Ontario‚ Canada should study Canadian literature because students need to focus on their own Canadian culture despite being surrounded by other cultures‚ it is also important to promote and establish a foundation for writers across Canada in order to encourage young writers. Students across Ontario take English as a compulsory course during their high school career. It is important that
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In the poem “Death of a Young Son by Drowning‚” Margaret Atwood uses different uses of figurative language to explain the pain of losing a child. The speaker of the poem has recently lost a child to drowning. The pain of losing a child is uncomparable to anything in the world‚ and Margaret Atwood uses the title‚ tone‚ language and structure to describe the pain. The author uses different similes and metaphors to describe her son’s recent death. The title of the poem is essential as it sets the tone
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Cited: Atwood‚ Margaret. “The Handmaid’s Tale”. USA: Seal Books‚ 1985. Hopkinson‚ nalo. “A Habit of Waste.” In Making a Difference. 2nd edition. Ed. Smaro Kamboureli. Toronto: Oxford‚ 2007. 362-372. Poladian‚ Charles. “Steubenville’s Former NAACP President Says
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THE CITY PLANNERS By Margaret Atwood Background Born in Canada in 1939‚ Margaret Atwood is an author‚ poet‚ critic‚ and essayist‚ feminist and social campaigner. Best known as a novelist‚ she is also an award-winning poetess. "The City-Planners” is critical of the monotony and false beauty of modern cities‚ suburbs and its architecture. The poem views modern life as empty‚ artificial‚ and its inhabitants as robotic and lacking in spirit. Analysis i. Main Subject The main theme is the poet’s
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Early stages include nyctalopia and tunnel vision (Bessant et al‚ n.d.). Advance stages comprise of complete loss of the central vision. As per Atwood and Finlay (1994) Retinitis Pigmentosa‚ RP‚ can be detected at different ages‚ ranging from birth to early adulthood. The latter incidence usually has more severe affects and reaches the advance stage where the patient experiences complete loss of
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good vs. evil. Whether it’s the innocent Hansel and Gretel vs. the evil cannibalistic witch; authors tended to paint the line separating the two through their uses of certain writing tools. The point Atwood attempts to drive into the reader is women’s naivety and overall downplay of rape. Margaret Atwood‚ author of Rape Fantasies‚ relies heavily on Irony and Characterization to get her point across. In the story Estelle‚ the narrator and main character‚ shares her rape fantasies along . In all of them
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