Fantasies: Female Victimization Margaret Atwood¡¦s ¡§Rape Fantasies¡¨‚ a monologue of a woman discus her concern about the topic of rape‚ demonstrates the power struggle between men and women and how female are victimized by the society. Furthermore‚ Atwood talks about the importance of having ¡§voice¡¨ as a power or solution to victimization. In the story‚ there is an exploration of female vulnerability‚ and victimization in the rape fantasies. Atwood through using the voice of the first-person
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Margaret Atwood : (1983) “Happy Endings” is six different story lines and alternate endings‚ with only four characters. All of the stories have different plots and motifs‚ they all have the same ending and that is with death‚ throughout the stories she is never shy to use death. Atwood uses satire through diction‚ she also uses flat characters‚ and she tricks with the different gender roles in a relationship‚ based on commitment‚ and adultery. She uses the gothic concept of inapt ability to escape
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that “There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard.” In 1995‚ Aung San Suu Kyi delivered the speech “Keynote Address at the Beijing World Conference on Women” through a video‚ attempting to gain the rights women. Similarly‚ Margaret Atwood presented the speech “Spotty-handed Villainesses” to numerous conventions in 1994‚ with the idea of increasing the dimensions of feminism. These powerful speeches use a large variety of language forms and techniques specifically pathos‚ ethos and
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ability to give birth. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood women are used for the need of reproduction. In the novel there’s a totalitarian state named Gilead. In Gilead women are not able to have jobs‚ read or write‚ vote‚ have their own property‚ and are mostly worshipped because they can conceive. Women don’t receive the right to be independent‚ because men are considered the one’s in control. The language Atwood uses throughout this novel is known to be powerful. As a result of
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the speeches‚ you demonstrate the speeches textual integrity. We Recognise a text as possessing textual integrity when we see form‚ structure and language producing a unified conceptual whole. The speeches ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ by Margret Atwood and ‘Faith‚ Hope and Reconciliation’ by Faith Bandler‚ represent how a combination of structure‚ form‚ language as well as exploring the human condition can raise a particular speech to new levels of relevance to future audiences. Both speeches showcase
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Kahn Gale 24). The reason the author used this figurative language is to get the feeling that Ryan is having‚ of feeling welcomed into a “community”. In the story “Girl Can’t Dance” it stated in the text “I looked like a cat trying to cough up a hairball”(Lisa Yee 16). On the contrary‚ the figurative language in this particular story is so the reader gets a visual of what her dancing would have looked like if they were in the story. Figurative language‚ specifically the reason‚ of these two stories
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“That book was written by Mr. Mark Twain‚ and he told the truth‚ mainly. There as things which he stretched but mainly he told the truth” (1). These are the first lines and the first lies in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ so from the beginning‚ the lack of truth is a major theme in the novel. Mark Twain justified the lying in different levels. Some of the lies are vicious and self-serving and these lies were mostly told by the King and Duke while other lies were childish and harmless which was
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Some may argue that this is a self-serving lie. Although it is harmless to others‚ it certainly isn’t a noble lie. Another set of harmless‚ somewhat clever‚ lies Jim tells are of his famous hairball. He claims it can predict the future and only he can tell what it’s saying. Not only that‚ but this hairball doesn’t work unless Jim gets paid first. The king of childish lies would definitely be Tom Sawyer. Through Tom’s ridiculous lies‚ Mark Twain makes the reader begin to hate this impractical
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Me" and "Morning in the Burned House" can be compared in terms of writing style‚ and theme. In "This is a Photograph of Me" Atwood writes using a combination of contrasting‚ irony‚ and symbolism‚ while in the poem "Morning in the Burned House" she uses irony‚ and symbolism in order to enhance the writing style and the exploration of the line dividing illusion and reality. Atwood uses many descriptive words near the beginning of the poem to describe the scenery in order to create a calm‚ peaceful mood
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ENG-101-W03 “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood 23 January 2013 Reading Response 1 “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood is a short story about a trauma that had a tremendous effect on the life of a young girl named Lois. The story begins with Lois living alone in an apartment. She is a widow with two grown children. Lois collects paintings of landscapes and she likes her apartment because they all fit on the walls. I do not believe that Lois likes the paintings‚ but she seems to need
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