It has been said that‚ "Rivers and mountains may change; human nature‚ never."(worldofquotes.com) This is a quote that can be deconstructed when examining William Shakespeare’s King Lear and Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel. When reviewing the two books the main characters‚ King Lear and Hagar‚ are easily comparable. The first similarity becomes apparent when King Lear and Hagar are both developed as flawed characters. Secondly‚ because of their flaws the two characters become blind to reality
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English – comparing 1984 & The Handmaid’s Tale. In The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood puts across the sense of mystery‚ things that were once there but are no more. She talks about ‘the pungent smell of sweat‚ shot through with the sweet smell of chewing gum and perfume’ which came from the girls who once watched the basketball matches that were ‘formally played there’. In the first section of this book we get the feeling that the character is quite lost‚ lost in what once was and not in the
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Choose ONE of the following: Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (208 pages) ISBN-10: 0451528239 ISBN-13: 978-045152823 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (432 pages) ISBN-10: 159448385X ISBN-13: 978-1594483851 A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (311 pages) ISBN-10: 038549081X ISBN-13: 978-0385490818 2. Read How to Read Literature Like a Professor. You may have already read parts of this‚ but reread them‚ and read the chapters you missed last year. 3. For ten of the chapters
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Eng A Lang & Lit HL Examine the quality of life for women in the light of Aunt Lydia’s statement‚ illustrating the method used to ‘protect’ women. Introduction - ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ written by Margaret Atwood; published in 1985 - Offred‚ the protagonist‚ is one of the Handmaids whose ovaries are functioning - Such women were kept at a place where they got brainwashed - Aunt Lydia (the main teacher at the Center) - ‘There is more than one kind of freedom‚ said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and
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I have always been drawn to strong‚ independent women and all that they stand for. People like Gloria Steinem‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Margaret Sanger are the reason women can live as freely as we do today. Despite this‚ however‚ women are still expected to look and act a certain way. Nowadays‚ people in the music industry use their prominence to recognize social and political injustices going on in our everyday lives‚ and in turn educates people on important issues that they otherwise may not have known
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- are universal. After two years in Somaliland the Laurences were in the Gold Coast from 1952 to 1957‚ the years just before independence‚ when the British colonial administration gave way to the new nation of Ghana. These African years matured Margaret Laurence and consolidated her purpose and the writing talent that she had practised since childhood‚ but hitherto without confidence and without conscious direction. Besides A Tree for Poverty‚ her translations of Somali poetry‚ her years there
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Desnoyers‚ and Stow 802) As a result we are consuming resources at a rate that is not renewable‚ or feasible for the future. It is plausible that we will have to rely on scientific advancement to sustain our species. The novel‚ Oryx and Crake‚ written by Margaret Atwood‚ displays the aftermath of these events as an overpopulated earth advances to meet our needs. In this essay I will examine how human consumption could create a world of false reality‚ as developed in the main theme of the novel‚ Oryx and Crake
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How does Margaret Atwood communicate her ideas to the readers? Consider: Atwood opens the poem by painting a picture-perfect and rather unrealistic and pretentiously beautiful Canadian suburbia. It was obvious‚ as readers can tell‚ that Atwood was irritated by the unnatural uniformness of the suburbia. Atwood collectively refers to the suburbia as “the sanities”. While many may think being sane is a good thing (as opposed to being insane)‚ the writer may have opined otherwise. Being sane does
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of crimes committed against humanity. Amnesty International has made reports in Ghana and several other countries where atrocities are committed. They then report back to the United Nations‚ who then decides if action is necessary. In the case of Margaret Atwood’s poem “Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture‚” the amnesty report is delivered in a very different way. This poem is about‚ in short‚ someone’s perception of a torture chamber. It is a less-than-glorified description of the room and
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that particular passage may be delivering to the reader. The purpose of this is so that one may gain a full and better understanding of the work as a whole and the many different ways that it can be translated. In The Handmaid’s Tale‚ the author Margaret Atwood uses literary language as one of her major tools within the novel to really captivate the reader and her usage of words really helps the reader connect with Offred and understand the issues that her story brings to the forefront. However‚
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