the back‚ people will spread misleading and untrue rumors about you‚ what if you would know everything? Are you ready to be slapped by the truth? Are you ready to see yourself from their perspective? In this literary story “A Low Art” by Margaret Atwood‚ is about retelling Homer’s novel – The Odyssey but from Penelope’s perspective. Penelope is the faithful‚ patient‚ considerate‚ devoted and loving wife of Odysseus. Odysseus was described in the excerpt as tricky and liar‚ how great he is to
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What is it to be human? What makes US human? "Homelanding" by Margret Atwood does a pretty good job of describing these question. This story is describing us‚ the humans‚ to other beings. She talks about our looks‚ our habits‚ and what very deeply connects us together. The story is from the point of view of humans communicating with other beings. The over all purpose though‚ is the idea of someone’s memories and experiences are much more important to learning how they act and live than their leaders
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Journal In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale‚ written by Margaret Atwood‚ there are a lot of displays of sexual acts against woman in efforts to belittle them. The prevalence of rape and pornography in the pre-Gilead world justified to the founders their establishment of the new order. The Commander and the Aunts claim that women are better protected in Gilead‚ that they are treated with respect and kept safe from violence. Certainly‚ the official penalty for rape is terrible: in one scene‚ the Handmaids
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Isu Presentation The Theme: Genderism> Towards Women > Man power >Hamlet‚Anthem‚ DOAS‚ The HandMaids tale Explanation of Character- Offred - The narrator and protagonist of The Handmaid’s Tale. Offred belongs to the class of Handmaids‚ fertile women forced to bear children for elite‚ barren couples. The Commander - The Commander is the head of the household where Offred works as a Handmaid. He initiates an unorthodox relationship with Offred‚ secretly playing Scrabble with her in his
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Snowman’s state of mind is seen to be a predominant‚ constant theme throughout Oryx and Crake and in particular the extract during pages 307-13. One could suggest that his state of mind is very conflicted during these pages especially‚ and so this leads him to display peculiar behaviour which can be closely examined. Not only is his state of mind a major theme‚ but it also links in with his loneliness that can’t be controlled‚ thus causing his mind to be so uncanny. During page 307 of the extract
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Women’s Liberation Movement Kalanit Knackstedt “Rape Fantasies‚” by Margaret Atwood is a short story about the narrator‚ Estelle‚ recalling to an anonymous male a controversial conversation she has with a group of her female co-workers during their lunch hour. Estelle is critical of her female peers’ rape fantasies; however she fails to see the fallacies in hers. Estelle portrays herself as a heroine who tells stories to threatening males to compel them to not assault her.Atwood uses a temporal setting
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The novel goes immediately into an unfamiliar‚ unexplained world‚ using unfamiliar terms like “Handmaid‚” “Angel‚” and “Commander” that only comes to make sense as the story progresses. In this novel‚ Margaret Atwood tells more than the story of Offred‚ the story of Gilead‚ and the story of a society set in the future where women are classified depending on the status of their husbands and the status of their “ovaries”. Their function is to be impregnated by Commanders
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GCE TEACHER GUIDANCE LT2 Internal Assessment WJEC ENGLISH LITERATURE INTERNAL ASSESSMENT LT2 TEACHER GUIDANCE INTRODUCTION We are grateful to the centres which provided us with the examples of students’ work which appear in this booklet as work-in-progress responses to the new LT2 internal assessment unit. The guidance in this booklet is directed at offering advice and support for LT2 Section A and Section B in terms of: 1. Text selection 2. Task setting 3. Assessing student responses
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of men?" She rhetorically highlights the unrealistic expectation placed upon women by not only men‚ but women also‚ which Atwood notes is an ideal portrayed in literature across the board. The point is however‚ it’s the flawed female personas that we can recall‚ she alludes to Lady Macbeth and Ophelia‚ and rightfully- who can actually remember more of the latter? Atwood metaphorically refers to female "bad" characters as "keys to doors we need to open‚ and as mirrors in which we can see more
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money for goods and services. Workers produce these commodities for a company‚ but they do not benefit the worker. Karl Marx‚ a sociologist‚ created a theory based on capitalism to explain how commoditizing people and goods effects society. Margaret Atwood uses Marx’s ideas about commodities in her novel Oryx and Crake. She uses specific language and situations to portray a society centered around people as objects. Karl Marx defines a commodity as “an external object‚ a thing which satisfies through
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