Essays on Margaret Atwood

Often times when one reads a piece of literary work, the way that its’ themes and storyline are interpreted is truly dependant upon the reader’s individual beliefs and morals. The same passage from a novel or poem can be seen in completely opposite perspectives from two different readers, despite the fact that they contain the…

Introduction ”Rat Song” is a poem written by Margaret Atwood and is part of Selected Poems from 1976. What is interesting about the poem is that it is written from the point of view of a rat. And by looking through the eyes of a rat (which many people see as a primitive and inferior…

Historically, throughout literature, there has been a genre in the way that authors portray the roles of women, a genre that has almost no association with women playing the role of the hero. Through further analysis of some stereotypical female roles from Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony, and Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman it will…

The representation of the body and identities in The Handmaid’s Tale, the Miller’s Tale and with reference to Never Let Me Go. The Handmaid’s tale, The Miller’s Tale and Never Let Me Go all seem to hold the human form in substantial import, exploring physicality with great significance. The fictional novels all link together and…

While reading the poem ‘This is a Photograph of Me’ by Margaret Atwood, it is shown that while growing up she was blurred, unimportant and she was never heard. The writer talks about a picture that was taken a long time ago. We don’t know many details about the picture, not even simple things such…

            Despite the superficial differences in form, structure, and plot, Flannery O’Connor’s and Margaret Atwood’s respective short stories both examine the various ways of living a rich and fulfilling life. Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is about a family embarking on a trip to Florida. The grandmother, a cantankerous and manipulative…

Through the course of ‘The Handmaids Tale’, Margaret Atwood uses an unconventional and ostensibly unordered form of plot construction to present Offred’s tale and certain major themes effectively to the reader. The construction of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is strongly linked to the prime theme of time running through the novel, as well as other more…

A foreshadow on today’s society as seen through Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. In today’s society, the one thing most stressed about is one’s outer appearance. It doesn’t matter how smart one is or how talented you are, if you have beauty then you have the world. Margaret Atwood, author of Oryx and Crake, focuses her…

The word “ecocriticism” was likely foremost used in William Rueckert’s essay “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism” ( 1978 ) and was later accepted in critical vocabulary when Cheryll Glotfelty. at that clip a alumnus pupil at Cornell. revived the term in the meeting of the Western Literature Association in Coeur d’Alene in 1989….

The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood describes the story of Offred, a Handmaid, that is a woman ascribed a breeding function by society, and who is placed with a husband and wife higher up the social ladder who “need” a child. Through Offred’s eyes we explore the rigidity of the theocracy in which she lives,…