character is reveal. In The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood‚ Penelope faces this exact scenario when she is left behind in Ithaca as Odysseus leaves to fight in the Trojan war‚ losing the only person she can trust. In the absence of Odysseus‚ Penelope’s complex character is revealed. Atwood effectively uses diction‚ point of view‚ syntax and tone to characterize Penelope as a skeptical‚ needy and loyal character. The first person perspective used by Margaret Atwood in The Penelopiad gives us valuable
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“Happy Endings” In the story “Happy endings” by Margaret Atwood‚ the theme is‚ the only similar part of life for all of us is death. But what is different is how people in this story live and die. In the story Margaret wrote‚ “You’ll have to face it‚ the endings are the same however you slice it.” It is the beginning and the end of our lives are similar‚ but the middle separates us from how we lived. What the author tries to say in this story is that all situations start
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Re (claim) of Identity: A Feministic Perspective on Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Margaret Atwood has published many volumes of poetry and short stories‚ but is best known as a novelist. Her Alias Grace (1996) is one of several novels focusing on women’s issues. Initially‚ Margaret Atwood’s all leading characters are victims of quest of survival but their quest of survival make them able to face the challenges of their life. As a result‚ in her world of fiction quest of survival is agony for the
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Irma Janet Cazarez February 5‚ 2014 English 12 Beowulf : Movie or Poem? Before watching the Beowulf movie‚ I had the opportunity to read the poem along with ghthe class. I thought the movie was going to be a slight different from the epic poem‚ but that it was still going to stick to the message that the poem had given us. As we started to watch the movie‚ I noticed that I as completely wrong because the movie is almost completely different from the epic poem. The movie kept very few
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On the first day of class‚ we had a wonderful guest speaker who came from Japan to speak with us on different aspects pertaining to Indians living in Japan. Yuka Mizutani discussed how many Indians lived in Japan‚ but the Japanese government only wants the world to see them as only having Japanese people. As a result of this‚ the Indians had to blend in with the normal Japanese people and they were not allowed to have their own cultural identity. They were forced to speak and write Japanese to make
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Happy Endings May 8‚ 2013 In the short story Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood the author displays how plot can affect characterization‚ or the reader’s perceptions of characters‚ by showing several different scenarios using the same characters but different plot lines. For example‚ plot B‚ although it uses the same characters‚ creates very different perceptions of those characters than the ones created in plot A. In plot A‚ John and Mary appear to be in love‚ and they appear to be happy. The plot
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Frost and Journey to the Interior by Margaret Atwood portray the concept of journeys to a great extent. These poems will show a whole other perspective of a literal inner and imaginative journey and a metaphorical physical journey. In the poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ Robert Frost provides a look at the choices one has in life‚ how one comes to decide which choices are better‚ and what the consequences of these choices are. In “Journey to the Interior”‚ Margaret Atwood uses the physical terrain of the
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takes them somewhere else while they look at it‚ and they can live in what they see even if it is only for a moment or two. This feeling alone is one that can inevitably make a piece of art so priceless. Death by Landscape is a beautiful story. Margaret Atwood tells the story of a young girl named Lois‚ her childhood and
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written well into his career. It is also one of the most popular. Margaret Thatcher‚ former prime minister of Great Britain‚ once said‚ “In politics‚ if you want anything said‚ ask a man; if you want anything done‚ ask a woman.” Novels and plays often portray circumstances that reflect Margaret Thatcher’s sentiment. In the play Medea‚ one of the most powerful and enduring of Greek Tragedies‚ some of the characters portrayed Margaret Thatcher’s sentiment by the actions they have committed
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A 1991 play‚ Wit written by Margaret Edson explore a women’s life‚ Vivian Bearing‚ is suffering from the final stage of ovarian cancer and being treated with a full dose chemotherapy experiment for eight months. She finds out she has cancer and has to deal with it all by herself with no family members and not many friends. Vivian is a literature professor of seventeenth century poetry and also specializes in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. (Edson pg. 5) She understood her life in an analytical security
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