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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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    which is‚ arguably the premise for Margaret Atwood’s novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Atwood applies this method of thought through her novel‚ and particularly to the ending. When ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ was published in 1985 feminism was becoming more widespread and successful movement‚ with the ‘Married Women’s Property Acts’ being passed in the UK only three years beforehand and different strands of feminism evolving throughout the world‚ some of which Margaret Atwood includes within her text: Such as

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    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 led to this perfect

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    invite you to change of shoes and take the position of a woman. Would you be that woman? Who endure any humiliation? I hope your answer is NO. Nowadays we are still having problem of gender equality‚ sadly I am not a super hero who can go and change this problem‚ but I will incite you to continue reading‚ so maybe at the end you will have a better idea of why we should counter the problem of female equality. Base on my experience as a female‚ I understand that for many women the simple act of showing

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    Dani Gardner AP English October 4‚ 2009 Morning in the Burned House Margaret Atwood is a contemporary Canadian poet‚ story writer‚ and essayist whose Canadian background is present in her writings. “February” is a poem in which death is discussed and pondered. Despair‚ death‚ and destruction seem to be the theme of this poem. The poem opens with a single word in the first sentence: “Winter.” With this being the first thought in the poem it gives the delusion of cold but happy times for many

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    love dies‚ it has an impact on your personal life. This impact that dead people can have is what Margaret Atwood writes about in “The Age of Lead” from 1991 The story is told by a limited third person narrator. The narrator is telling the story from an outer point of view. The narrator is focalized on Jane in the story. Besides that‚ the narrator acts like a fly on the wall. This influences the story and the way you

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    Name Prof Class Date The theme of Totalitarianism in “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood All throughout the text “The Handmaid ’s Tale”‚ there is a permanent theme of totalitarianism. Regimes that follow a totalitarian cultural ensure dominance over their subjects with the use of manipulation (Finigan 435). Besides the use of manipulation‚ the authority figures in “The Handmaid ’s Tale” dominate the subjects by controlling their experience of life‚ time‚ memory and history (Finigan 435)

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    Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song” (rpt. In Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth‚ 2015] 797-798) draws in the reader by describing what a siren song and what it may be. The definition of a siren song according to Merriam-Webster is “ an alluring utterance or appeal; especially : one that is seductive or deceptive.” This definition plays an important role in the entire story that is being told in this poem. There are many different

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    Margaret Atwood’s “Giving Birth” includes a small set of future parents in a childbearing course. The group consists of numerous first-time moms and dads and only one lady who has given birth before: “She’s there‚ she says‚ to make sure they give her a shot this time. They delayed it last time and she went through hell” (830). In response to what she had said‚ the other people in her class looked at her weird. They are not clamoring for shots; they do not intend to go through hell. Hell comes from

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    Jennifer Angelucci April 23rd‚ 2007 SIREN SONG Margaret Atwood’s "Siren Song" is a lyric that consists of nine three-lined stanzas that neither possess any recognizable rhyme scheme nor rhythm. The speaker of this poem is a mythical creature‚ a Siren‚ who addresses us‚ the audience‚ when she speaks of the victims whom she lured through the enticing song she sings. The overall tone of this poem is sarcastic and quite sinister. The title itself immediately depicts the theme and speaker of the poem

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