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    Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee focuses on the life of a slave girl by the name of Vyry who gains her freedom at the end of the Civil War and sets out with her children‚ Minna and Jim‚ and husband‚ Innis Brown‚ to make a new life for their family in the Reconstruction Period. Walker’s awareness of the southern plantation tradition is made clear throughout Jubilee in the way that she debunks the negative tropes placed on the shoulders of African Americans by the nostalgic white writers of the South;

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    Rat Song Introduction ”Rat Song” is a poem written by Margaret Atwood and is part of Selected Poems from 1976. What is interesting about the poem is that it is written from the point of view of a rat. And by looking through the eyes of a rat (which many people see as a primitive and inferior animal) the poem shows how judgemental‚ hateful‚ hypocritical and “unnatural” the human race is. The poem furthermore advocates that humans are a much greater parasite than the rats they are so desperately

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    general‚ as Atwood claims that the song ‘forces men to leap’. Through generalizing ‘men’‚ the poet naturally separates the two genders in order to convey that no one man is individual‚ similarly to women. In contrast to this idea‚ the likelihood of Margaret Atwood writing so negatively about her own gender is slim. Additionally‚ another perspective of the poem could be taken where Atwood hints at her need for revenge on men and how they are shallow and unchangeable. The undistinguishable characters

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    Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song” is a story that has been retold for generations; a tale of beauty‚ distress‚ and the ultimate betrayal. Margaret Atwood’s allusion‚ and the title of the poem itself set the stage for a story in which the readers already know the ending. As the siren leads her victims to their death‚ she seems bored‚ unamused‚ and ultimately unhappy. However‚ the siren uses her appearance‚ and her ability to gain sympathy in the minds of her targets‚ to lead them to their demise

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    Throughout most of the story it is clear that Gabriel is trapped in his own self-consciousness and suffering from a delusion of his owns self. At the beginning he is characterized by his arrogance and superior manners. However‚ all along the story‚ he is involved in different incidents that make him understand himself. The very first incident

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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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    Throughout the story‚ “My Last Duchess” by Margaret Atwood‚ there exists vast dissimilarities between stereotypical women and women opposing stereotypes‚ and society. These dissimilarities are shown evidently through the characters. Margaret Atwood uses her characters to supply detailed examples of individuals who embody these stereotypes‚ those who do not‚ and the conflicting tones she uses in regards to these characters display her feminist ideals. A few of the characters representing stereotypical

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    Spiritual Strivings” is self-consciousness. Dubois states that “true self- consciousness” is something African Americans don’t have because they are forced to see themselves through the eyes of white people‚ that African Americans need to know themselves on their own terms instead of white world terms‚ and that this recognition of their own value is necessary for the attainment of respect for the “ideal of human brotherhood”. One quote related to self- consciousness is “He would not bleach his Negro

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    Letter to America In Margaret Atwood’s “Letter to America” she expresses her disappointment over the current state of America. She mentions how much America has changed throughout her years and goes on to compare the America of her youth. This essay discusses the changes that America goes through. Margaret is trying to show how people are feeling about watching America begin to decline. This essay discusses Americas faults from a Canadian perspective. Atwood moved from Canada to America to attend

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    The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood relates a story taking place in a dystopian society where Christian fundamentalists enforce their beliefs. Their society shows what family values might look like if they were enforced. Women stay at home gardening and having babies. If women are unable or refuse to do so they are marginalized and sometimes executed. Throughout the book Margaret Atwood uses flowers as a symbol of life or fertility‚ to describe the women in Gilead and to disguise terrifying things

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