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    “Happy ending” is Margaret Atwood short fiction story about two undeveloped character‚ whom she called John and Mary. The story itself is very different from most of other short stories‚ Atwood present six different stories with all same character and each story provide different plot with the same conclusion. However‚ what stood out most is Atwood visibly addressed the stereotypical belief women are inferior to men‚ representing the gender bias against women. Firstly‚ the stereotypical

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    Written Task 1: Rationale: I have written a letter‚ from Offred’s daughter‚ after approximately thirteen years since the two got separated. The Handmaid’s Tale is a book where we experience walking in heavy fog on a route with forking paths to different destinations‚ hence the exploitation to take on the path I fancy the most. I have decided that the tale had ended with Offred rescued and eventually receive this letter of hope. I have kept the daughter’s name a mystery‚ as anonymity creates her

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    Source 1 On-This-Day – Obituary. Assassination in India: A Leader of Will and Force; Indira Gandhi‚ Born to Politics‚ Left Her Own Imprint on India. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1119.html. Accessed 21/1/15. Origin: The article appeared in the New York Times‚ after Mrs Gandhi’s death. The article is an obituary written by the freelance journalist; Linda Charlton (deceased). Charlton was a former journalist with the New York Times for 10 years before going freelance.

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    Atwood’s Bluebeard’s Egg is a narrative that supports the theme of perception being a human characteristic which only presents the truth the particular person wants to believe. The first evidence of this appears in Sally’s description of Edward‚ her husband‚ who by her thoughts is a "dumb blond" that need her protection and intelligence to survive. "At set intervals an angel appears‚ bringing him food. That’s fine with Ed who hardly notices what he eats‚ but the angel is getting tired of being an

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    The United States of America has become a totalitarian‚ known as the Republic of Gilead‚ due to low reproduction rates during a time in need in war. Women in The Handmaid’s Tale are forced under strict regulations and laws to have children for couples of higher class that are having trouble conceiving. Offred who happens to be the main character is one of the women who were assigned to a certain Commander. Not only that however her life turned around. Her rights and family were taken away from her

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    Margaret Sanger. journalist‚ women’s activist and founder of planned parenthood— is known for all of those things. Held to a very high standard and well spoken of for her words on the issue of women’s rights and birth control‚ there are on the contrary very dark and sinister actions of this American pioneer. Although she was helpful to American women in the most minuscule of ways‚ she was also a racial supremacist and eugenicist. Margaret Sanger‚ born September 14‚ 1897 in Corning‚ New

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    2005 it was regarded as a milestone in German politics; and the USA‚ the country of freedom and sophistication has yet to experience a female president. One of the exceptions in this context is the UK. Not because of the UK itself but because of Margaret Thatcher. She took office as the first female Prime Minister of the UK as well as the first female leader of the Conservative Party already 30 years ago‚ when women in such high political positions were basically non-existent. She was one of the

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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

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    The Beauty of Life: How Atwood Constructs Her Message in “Happy Endings” Readers around the world are drawn to happy endings. We thrive on the “happily ever after‚” the tying up of loose ends that ignores the frays in the strings – the consequences of the conflict‚ the other sides of characters‚ and the scenes that made us take a step back‚ but are tolerable in the end because the last page has been turned. The universe that we left behind on our bookshelf is fine and dandy‚ so the intricacies that

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    NAME: LORANNA LAING DATE: October 25‚ 2010 SUBJECT: LITERATURES IN ENGLISH AN ANALYSIS OF THE POEMS “ORPHEUS”AND “EURYDICE” BY MARGARET ATWOOD The poems “ORPHEUS “and “EURYDICE” by Margaret Atwood speaks of the love shared by a Grecian Male called Orpheus and his wife Eurydice. It tells the readers how Eurydice was manipulated into loving Orpheus through his singing which was used to hypnotize both gods and man.The story then goes on to Say that they were married soon after but before

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