vision of Coleridge‚ in This Lime Tree Bower My Prison‚ and John Lennon‚ with his gentle utopianism in the song Imagine‚ articulate a milder‚ positive philosophy of such experiences‚ the murky and subterranean landscape of the human psyche painted by Atwood in "Journey to the Interior"‚ and the arduous trek depicted by Leunig in How to Get There project a mood of doubt and pessimism characteristic of our contemporary‚ cynical age. Coleridge’s imaginative experience propagates through a series of contrast:
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a post Cold War society plagued by infertility. Atwood presents the reader with “The Republic of Gilead”‚ the Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government. Narrated by a woman renamed Offred‚ the reader gets an idea of a future in which women are no longer women‚ but are solely needed for reproduction. Atwood uses a system of vocabulary established under the Republic of Gilead in order to manipulate and dehumanize women and
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to their new surroundings‚ also depends on the conditions of where they came from. It is through the combination of visual imagery and the constant use of negative connotations that Atwood presents the place in which the character has immigrated from; “we left behind one by one the cities rotting with cholera”. Atwood clearly illustrates that the place in which this immigrant in particular has come from‚ is a disease-stricken country. The repetition of “one by one” emphasizes the separation of the
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood sends a warning to the readers of the novel. It implores the readers not to take the privilege of living in a democratic society for granted. Atwood includes many warnings to support this idea such as showing us how fortunate one should be for having the right to choose their sexual orientation‚ danger of males dominance‚ and societies ruled by patriarchy. Firstly‚ Offred talks about how homosexuality is illegal in Gilead and is punished by death. For example
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In Cat’s Eye‚ Margaret Atwood portrays the lasting negative influence misogynistic behavior has on Elaine Risley throughout her life through parallelism and motifs. Initially‚ Elaine Risley‚ the dynamic protagonist‚ decides “it’s time to go back” (459) to her hometown for an art gallery she is featured in and she remembers how she learned all of her disavowal tendencies. Upon arrival‚ she recalls the 1st time she encountered “real girls at last‚ in the flesh” (52) and does not know how to act around
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Cat’s Eye Report Cat’s Eye. Margaret Atwood. London: Virago Press‚ 2011. 498 “Why do we remember the past‚ and not the future?” Stephen W. Hawking wonders in A Brief History of Time. This quote perfectly describes the book and turns out to be the main question in this novel. Margaret Atwood tries to attempt her personal interpretation of time and is convinced that time simply never goes away. Elaine Risley‚ the main character of the book‚ has returned to Toronto‚ where she spent her childhood
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Tone Assignment Peter Sigouin Ka-Ching! Margaret Atwood ENG4U In Margaret Atwood’s Ka-Ching!‚ the dominant tone of the passage is nostalgic and contemplative. When Atwood describes her first job‚ working for a small hotel coffee shop‚ she refers to it as being a clean‚ well-lighted‚ with booths‚ counters and waitresses. She is looking back on what seemed to be a poor experience. The basis of the Machiavellian characteristics was to do whatever it took to gain
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You Fit Into Me Margaret Atwood writes in a vivid‚ witty and often sharply discomfiting style in all of her literary works. To call her a feminist author is in a way selling her short as her work‚ while often centered on issues of gender‚ has also focused on Canadian national identity‚ Canada’s relations with the United States and Europe‚ human rights issues‚ environmental issues‚ and the Canadian wilderness. The poem that I chose to analyze is a very short poem consisting of only four
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Cited: Atwood‚ Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: McLelland and Stewart‚ 1972. Davies‚ Robertson. Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science. 4. Vol. 13. Ottawa: The Royal Society Of Canada‚ 1975. —. Letters in Canada. Toronto:
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get me transferred‚ i said. To the colonies. You know that. Or worse. I thought he should continue to act in public‚ as if i were a large vase or a window: part of the background‚ inanimate or transparent. I’m sorry‚ he said. I didn’t mean to.” ( Atwood. 209) Offred tells the commander to never try to touch her in a certain way but the commander does not realize it he gets confused and ask her what she was talking about until he realize at first he hadn’t even notice he was doing that. Although commanders
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