Margaret Atwood

Photograph of Me,” by Canadian poet and author, Margaret Atwood. Upon reading and analysis, this particular work proves to embrace the unexpected through its shocking volta, as well as its tone, multi-dimensionality, and two significant “hot spots”. There are a few surprising elements of this poem, the most obvious of which being the volta, which twists the speaker’s story with the line, “(The photograph was taken / the day after I drowned” (Atwood 15-16). Here, the poem’s description of the…

Today a great many people have put a lot of emphasis on what freedoms they have in face of those who have more power. How important are these freedoms to us and what if they were taken away? In Margaret Atwood's ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ a cautionary tale; It comes to show that when pressure groups gain power. People lose their essential freedoms, and it shows that when these freedoms are taken away. We are quick to realize what it means to have those freedoms. The way ‘The Handmaid’s tale’…

Margaret Atwood did not set out to be a “feminist author”. Despite this, her books are seen as some of the most significant and relevant feminist novels of the twentieth century. Atwood has accepted her reputation as a feminist author, but has said that many of her books are actually pointing out other significant societal issues as well, such as those of environment, religion, and race. Atwood’s mash-ups of reality are always going to be considered feminist, she says, because they contain real…

written by Margaret Atwood, is known for it’s biblical references. The biblical references used in the book, are mostly by the different name groups in society. There are certain names only men are called and only certain names women are only called. Men’s are more of the top leading roles, because they don’t have many restrictions as a women does. Women’s roles are about fertility and serving, which in Gilead is the only thing that they are meant to do. The biblical references show how Atwood…

To what extent does Atwood portray women as being responsible for their own oppression in the Handmaid’s Tale? Explore this with reference to use of language and structure. Atwood presents the women in Gilead as being responsible for their own oppression. At the time of the novel’s creation, the conservative governments lead by Ronald Regan and Margaret Thatcher were threatening to return to a patriarchal society with the nuclear family at its core. Atwood wanted to make it clear that women…

things out too, but there was no way of checking” (Atwood 26). Here Offred realizes that this passage has been revised from the bible but is unable to look up the original words because reading and writing are strictly outlawed. The Commander is the only person in the household who is allowed to read…

Margaret Atwood's short story “Lusus Naturae” demonstrates how people reject others, or things that are not easily understood. Having the tendency to shun what is not understood and what is thought is not morally acceptable. Not only does it demonstrate how humans reject others but it has a view on women's roles and the idea of feminism. Margaret Atwood intertwines the idea of feminism and discrimination. Woman for ages have felt they have been put inferior to men even to this day and age. They…

bastardes carborandorum. (Atwood 52) The 1970s-1980s were a time all about making statements, such as the preceding butchery of Latin. It was a time of “changing authority and governments, and culture, values, and technology” (Zuhlke). It seemed that there were “te bastardes” and there was you, with hardly any in between, and communication could only be made between the two through large symbolic actions. Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel was no exception. But to whom was Atwood making the…

adopting rhetorical characteristics of ethos, logos and pathos that resonates with given audiences. Alas, based on overall textual integrity and reception of texts are they considered to have an enduring worth capable of transcending time and place. Margaret Atwood’s, ‘Spotty –Handed Villainesses’ and Anwar Sadat’s ‘Speech to the Israeli Knesset’ are two speeches that respectively challenge societal concerns through personal or shared experience and additionally provoke thought for direction…

narratives of short stories with the writer’s voice and opinion are not on the page. Margaret Atwood’s Happy Endings contains a glaring element of authorial presence and an essay-type structure that causes the text to resemble an essay rather than a short story. The…