Surfacing

identity. Surfacing is read with multiple dimensions and on many levels. It is a study of gender difference, female male relationship, detective story, and journey towards nature, study of self-identity, sexual politics, and searching for the meaning of life. Atwood’s Surfacing is about a “woman’s spiritual quest” (Christ Margaret 316). “A feminist/ecological treatise that reflects the political and issues of the postmodern society (Hutcheon, Casnadian 54). Surfacing is written with the elements of suspense, with multiple layer of meanings and in brilliant style. The readers praise the style, theme and characterization…

This paper attempts to read the novel Surfacing, written by the Booker Prize winning Canadian author, poet, critic and environmental activist Margaret Atwood, through the lens of ecocriticism. Atwood has delved not only into the changing ecological Canadian scenario as an aftereffect of what she calls ‘Americanisation’, but through her protagonist and her journey of self-exploration, Atwood portrays nature as the elemental force that makes a man realise the essence of humanity, and only in…

Chapter 3 Surfacing was first published in 1972 and it is the second published novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It has often been called a companion novel to Power Politics Atwood's collection of poems which deals with complementary issues. The novel has also been compared to The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath. Plath's Esther Greenwood and Atwood's unnamed narrator are both driven to psychological breakdowns due to their unwillingness to adhere to the social expectations imposed on…

A withdrawal further into this state would only result in death and, unlike Esther Greenwood, the Narrator does not welcome this option. She has to fight for her resurfaced child and challenge the internalized conventions of male hegemony. Through realization of her power and acceptance of her own vices and past, the Narrator can finally emerge from her experience with madness. 5. Conclusion: Functions of Madness and Liberation In my thesis I analyse three works by North American female…

The acquisition of resources in animals is an important influence on the structure and actions of a species since individuals want to pass their genes onward to survive. However, interspecific competition affects the availability of these resources and therefore influences the methods by which a species obtains them. Surf Scoter ducks demonstrate a synchronous dive and surfacing pattern, as investigated by LE Schenkeveld and RC Ydenberg, as a tactic to overpower kleptoparasites – animals who rob…

It is commonly known that today’s adolescent have the mental state of most mental health patients in the 20th century. This is due to the pressure that is put on adolescents and the factors in their life that contributes to their mental state. Many adolescents are clinically or socially associated with depression. Psychologist have been studying what exactly triggers the surfacing of depression in adolescents and have concluded that the main triggers. The main triggers of depression in an…

important influence on the structure and actions of a species since individuals want to pass their genes onward to survive. However, interspecific competition affects the availability of these resources and therefore influences the methods by which a species obtains them. Surf Scoter ducks demonstrate a synchronous dive and surfacing pattern, as investigated by LE Schenkeveld and RC Ydenberg, as a tactic to overpower kleptoparasites – animals who rob food from animals of other species – like…

Unlike the Unknown Narrator, Oedipa never finds the truth behind the stories that she’s looking for. She lets all of the external information consume her, essentially trapping her without her knowledge into a different reality, separate from everyone else. At the end of the novel, Pynchon leaves Oedipa in a room to wait for the mystery bidder in hopes of solving the conspiracy, however, for all anyone knows, that could be just another set up for the next clue as it had been throughout Oedipa’s…

cultural feminism as harmful to the goals of equality but also understands that placing blame can be just as unproductive. The protagonist must have these diverging traits—intelligence and impotence, sensitivity and dispassion—for Atwood to accurately depict the inward struggles and choices that give both men and women their autonomy. Dialectical ecofeminism assumes that all people contain what masculine society has called “opposite” traits. Without the pressure of labels and the pressure to…

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