Anup Kumar Dey Assistant Professor Department of English Assam University‚ Diphu Campus Diphu‚ Karbi Anglong‚ Assam‚ India - 782460 deyanup1@gmail.com Woman‚ Land and Nation: An Ecocritical Reading of Margaret Atwood’s Poetry The word "ecocriticism" was probably first used in William Rueckert’s essay "Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism" (1978) and was subsequently accepted in critical vocabulary when Cheryll Glotfelty‚ at that time a graduate student at Cornell‚ revived
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Cora H. English III Honors 4 April 2013 WWOD: What Would Offred Do? How far would someone go to protect their rights? What is considered passive behavior during the fall of the free world? Would someone risk their life to defend freedom? Margaret Atwood raises these questions and many more in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. She uses the character Offred to demonstrate passive behavior and acceptance of a totalitarian regime after the fall of the United States. In the new Republic of Gilead‚ Offred
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Margaret Mead and Mary Catherine Bateson: Like Mother‚ Like Daughter? A Research Paper Presented to Dr. William Reckmeyer In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for 100W by Ashley Goularte December 15‚ 2010 Introduction Margaret Mead and Mary Catherine Bateson are not household names‚ but to anthropologists and other academics these two women have helped advance and shape the world of Anthropology. In the early 20th century‚ Margaret Mead was a part of small but influential
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Margaret Atwood’s Novel thoroughly depicts feminist and government control issues. Atwood’s intent is to warn society about the dangers surrounding such issues in order to prevent a world like Gilead. Gilead is an anti-feminist society in which women have been oppressed for the sole reason of reproduction necessities and for the infertile women‚ they also have been deprived from any vocal expression or any textual knowledge in order to maintain power within the males and the regime; women are deprived
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The Narrator’s Abortion Started the Process of her Mental Transformation Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing is a novel about a woman who seeks redemption because of having her baby aborted. Her name is never revealed what denotes a serious problem in her identity. She has lost all the human characteristics such as the ability to feel (Atwood 22)‚ love (Atwood 36)‚ dream (Atwood 37) or weep (Atwood 166). She has to go through both physical but mainly mental transformation to realize and find her real
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counter his authority. When Senator Margaret Chase Smith spoke out against McCarthy’s actions on the Senate floor‚ she became the first Republican to openly criticize McCarthy. Although opposing McCarthy’s political crusade could have put here career to an end as she could have been McCarthy’s next targeted victim‚ her actions resulted in her emergence as a “woman of national importance.” Similar to the Senators appreciated in John F. Kennedy’s Profiles In Courage‚ Margaret Chase Smith adhered to her “independent
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Literature as a whole grows and changes from generation to generation. Each age has its own particular point of interest and its own particular way of thinking and feeling about things. So the literature which it produces is governed by certain prevailing tastes. Modern age is a complex age and the changing attitude of this period has influenced thought and literature of this period too. Of all forms of literature‚ fiction dominated the twentieth century as it reflected the currents and forces
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In her novel The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Margret Atwood uses symbolism to illustrate the handmaid’s role in the society of Gilead. The handmaids are the women who had broken law of Gilead‚ and were forced into the role of a surrogate mother for a higher ranking couple. The handmaids had no rights or free will. They were under constant surveillance and this caused them to be very cautious. The author characterizes most handmaids as a tentative and distrustful‚ which is perhaps why Offred never puts in words
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Throughout Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded state is created through the use of multiple themes and narrative techniques. In a dystopia‚ we can usually find a society that has become all kinds of wrong‚ in direct contrast to a utopia‚ or a perfect society. Like many totalitarian states‚ the Republic of Gilead starts out as an envisioned utopia by a select few: a remade world
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been expressing their opinions about the issue for quite some time. Through their writing‚ these authors delve into details about the objectification of the body and the affects it has‚ or could have‚ on individuals and groups within a society. Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Nalo Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste” are both set in futuristic societies where the human body is aestheticized for a means of perceived control. This control is exercised through the demonstration of social status
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