Margaret Atwood

represent the role of protector in a singular instance when Mrs. Burridge is watching him walk hunched over; she ponders to herself “He can’t protect me” (Atwood 282) and one can conclude that this is a concern for her. She places emphasis on it not only being him who has ‘lost power’ but all of the men, stating “You can tell by the way they walk” (Atwood 282). Her concern is not unusual or offensive to Frank, as revealed earlier…

It is difficult for some people to go against the beliefs of the majority, especially when a topic is considered too controversial to challenge. In Margaret Atwood’s “My Last Duchess”, this happens to be the case for her female protagonist when her class studies a poem by Robert Browning that is also titled “My Last Duchess”, in which a Duke had his Duchess killed for his own selfish reasons. Unexpectedly, the young girl’s interpretation of the Duke is vastly different from the rest of her class…

In any lie, there is an element of truth. This rings true in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Her writing portrays a futuristic world that seems complete fiction at first, but when further examined shows a much more plausible world. Atwood utilizes the events of the past such as feminism, censorship, slavery, religion, and many other events to create the fictional world of Gilead that could easily become real life if allowed. On a first read, the story is entirely fictional. How could…

Poetry is used as a device to convey confronting concepts to the reader and explore human encounters, which the author communicates through poetic language. In Margaret Atwood’s ‘Christmas Carols’ and Sylvia Plath’s ‘Stillborn’ the application of extended metaphor, persuasive language and juxtaposition generates thought and feeling through poetry. In Sylvia Plath’s potent emotive work examines the conflict in her writing process through the metaphor of a stillborn child, while ‘Christmas…

with and old friend and having a platonic relationship. As far as "pornography" by Margaret Atwood she explains the dangers of pornography not only in a political way but from a society point of view and how it changes people perception on women and rape and confuses people in their everyday sex life and Also how it creates a fake facade that people are not aware of. Both Lisa K.Friedman and Margaret Atwood stories parallel each others in a few was from a society point a view showing…

describes the controlled household in which she resides. “I wait, for the household to assemble. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part” (Atwood 81).” The women of the household and within Gilead suffer from an extreme lack of freedom. They are not permitted to lock their doors, must wear a uniform, and the handmaid’s names are specifically changed to the name of the Commander with…

become emotionally invested in them. In Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor is the character around which the story evolves and unfolds. Poe tells the story from the point of view of Montresor some fifty years later after being insulted while Atwood tells her story using an older woman named Verna whom was assaulted at a younger age. Both of these protagonists have some deep secret which they allow the reader to become…

with pornography and might even suggest that it is harmless. In their view, it’s just two people making love and there is a certain beauty in that sometimes. However, in the article “Pornography”, Margaret Atwood shows how this pornography is not as harmless as it may appear. First and foremost, Atwood desires to make her definition of pornography clear – i.e. “women getting their nipples snipped off with garden shears, having meat hooks stuck into their vaginas, being disembowled” (pg 586…

Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero’s renewed perspective is framed through the realisation of not only the limitations of his art, but also the importance of love and redemption in redefining one’s place in the world, as well as one’s view of it. Margaret Atwood's Journey to the Interior takes a more monochromatic approach to the exploration that these challenging discoveries lead to, providing a detailed analysis of their subsequent impact on the individuals involved. In The Tempest,…

In the novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, Offred and Ofglen visit the Wall every chance they get to witness the hanging bodies from it. The wall is located past the church and the main function of the wall is to keep the citizens of Gilead from escaping or opposing higher authority. According to the narrator, Offred, “No one goes through those gates willingly. The precautions are for those trying to get out...”(Atwood 31). In order to keep their power, the high-ranked men of Gilead…