Luring sailors to their doom with the sound of their voice. Sirens are wondrous half-bird women who seduce wandering sailors. The song in “Sirens” in The Odyssey by Homer, conveys an idea of temptation by appealing to Odysseus’s hunger of knowledge. However, the poem “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood, develops this idea in a more superior way.…
The isolation of the castle is also described using the same tone as the deserted platform this is again, a subversion of the Gothic convention of isolation with it's SLIDE ; 'Faery solitude.' And here phallic imagery is used to express the dangers of male sexuality. The description of the 'spikes gate' links to the scene later on where the narrator loses her virginity, she describes it as being 'impaled' As soon as the story starts the reader is positioned to feel distrust towards the husband because of the use of gothic…
Margret Atwood mainly focuses on feminism in her work. She has a tendency to float back to the same plot in each story, making it a challenge for the reader to comprehend. The Edible Woman was Atwood’s very first novel that she wrote. She created an extensive plot and stayed strongly with the theme of feminism. In Oryx and Crake, Atwood uses the emotions and flashbacks of Jimmy to reveal how a child deals with the loss of his mother due to her values and his own loss in a world that strives to be ageless and remove undesirable traits.…
Nolite te 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.…
repetitively and in a satire way to describe their jobs, sex life, and hobbies. This version seems to be straightforward. There’s no conflicts to speak of in this version, no twists, no drama, it’s safe; it’s the happily ever after. The kind of outcome we might expect in real life. In version B, Mary and John are not living the happily ever after as version A.…
For the duration of the winter months, people tend to develop habits specific the season. They make attempts to hide themselves under their thick covers in the icy mornings to avoid having to leave them behind. They put on a few, or perhaps more than a few, pounds to insulate their cold bones. Bitter or melancholy moods set in to reflect the weather. In Margaret Atwood’s poem, “February”, she makes use of similes and metaphors to compare humans to animals in order to emphasize her gloomy, apathetic tone in her discussion of human survival during the winter months.…
Analysis of “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood “ And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”…
The Sirens are known for their deadly song. As seen in both poems, the sirens are portrayed differently in each. Both poems show different tone and diction. The second poem illustrates a less eerie song of the sirens, while the first one is luring and eerie.…
Looking in the mirror is a figurative expression that we interpret as to look deeply inside ourselves and discover who we truly are. When we look deep inside ourselves we are most of the time deeply disappointed with what we find. Sometimes the journey to finding ourselves is long and troublesome one; we steer ourselves in the wrong direction by believing in the perception of what we believe to be the right answer to our problems. Through five short stories will we learn that, “only through pain and suffering can one obtain the wisdom of life.”…
In the horrific and altered world of the novels called “the year of the flood” by Margaret Atwood and “the walking dead” by Robert Kirkman, both authors show many faces of femininity through different characters and different atmospheres. Both novels are dealing with end of the world crisis as in Margaret Atwood’s book the humans are dying from virus and power is going to the wrong hands and the laws begin to change, effecting the norm. While in Kirkman’s novel zombies are wiping out the human race with only number of human left with authority wiped out as well, people start to take things in their hands to on about everyday life. Both authors reveal the changes in the women’s lives who are in the novel. Female gender appears to be struggling to achieve equality.…
No, please tell me I’m not seeing this, Alexis thought. But she was. It was a back. A human back, with a black jacket on. The hill of a shoulder, a dip, then a small hump for a hip.…
In “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood reveals six different scenarios about two main characters named John and Mary. She begins with scenario A to show a version of a perfect fairytale story, “Section A is the most typical, uncomplicated, most unrealistic scenario that results in a happy ending.” By the end of the short story the readers can notice that the conflicts are different but the endings stay the same. The author stereotypes the two main characters by gender, causes the reader to focus on the plot and includes symbolism and irony through the short story. When people think of fairytales they imagine a princess and prince charming but that is not the case here.…
There are many ways the human body can be described. It can be literal, anatomical, or poetic. All of these wrapped up will sum up the essay “The Female Body” written by Margaret Atwood, who put words to the wonders and complications of a woman’s body. With an almost rhythmic writing style, Atwood addressed sexist views and rebutted with an intimate and intrusive account of the role women have within a male consumed society. Atwood successfully uses pathos and ethos argumentative points to bring attention to the hardships women face.…
There are several elements from fairy tales that exist in the novel. Margaret Atwood has received a fantasy award for her pieces of work honoring her for her writing that makes it interesting to read. Similarly, after reading just a few pages of the novel, I see how elements of fairy tale are used in order to create a motif or morals like a fairy tale does. For example, as the author states, “…some fairy-tale figure in a red cloak, descending towards a moment of carelessness that is the same as danger” (Atwood, 9). In this line, Atwood is making reference to Little Red Riding Hood by stating a figure in red.…
Texts are deliberately crafted by composers in response to their contexts, either political, historical or cultural, composers develop their desire to construct their personal representation of the landscape to allow responders to perceive the nature in ways they do. The representation between landscape and poet is portrayed in, the romanticised poem, “Train Journey” by Judith Wright, the post colonisation poem, “Flame Tree in a Quarry” by Judith Wright and the outback painting of the effects of post European Colonisation, “Emus in a Landscape” by Russell Drysdale. These three texts convey the importance of a beneficial relationship between man and nature as a means of gaining a positive perception on the beauties of nature. Furthermore,…