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Mordecai Richler and Margaret Atwood on Self Victimization

"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

The Roles of Offred and Moira in “The Handmaid’s Tale”

"We are two-legged wombs, thats all; sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices" (Atwood, 1986, p. 136). Because they are fertile they ...

Contrasting Bone and Offred

In a paper consisting of five pages the characters of Offred in The Handmaid's Tale and Bone in Bastard Out of Carolina are contra...

Comparative Analysis of Offred and Bone

unstable" (Bouson, 2001, p. 101). Bouson contends that it is really her shame that is Bones core; and that her deep sense of wor...

'The Day of Doom' by Michael Wigglesworth

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....

Gender Roles, Arranged Marriages and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

In five pages this paper discusses how arranged marriages oppressed women in this analysis of these two literary works. Two sourc...

Discussing Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

in turn seduce the wife and/or daughter of the miller. In the end a ridiculous fight breaks out wherein the students seem to win, ...

Freedom and The Handmaid's Tale

in the United States. The people recognize the failure of capitalism and see socialism as a solution. Within Marxs paradigm, there...

The Last of Cheri, The Handmaid's Tale, Beloved, and Faith

In four pages faith and its importance in these literary works and the characters featured within are discussed. There are no oth...

Themes of Irony in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

add that "Irony is likely to be confused with sarcasm but it differs from sarcasm in that it is usually lighter, less harsh in its...

Smell Imagery in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

preserve at least the signs of order" (Atwood 93). The narrators past contained so many painful memories that she created a fict...

'Variations on the Word Love' by Margaret Atwood

sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...

Canadian Literature and Violence

The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...

Gender, Individuation, and Jungian Theory in Surfacing and Demian

A 7 page analysis of the works by Margaret Atwood and Herman Hesse. The focus is two fold. The journey to individuation is anal...

An Analysis of The Merchant's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This essay presents in in depth analysis of The Merchant's Tale. The author presents a synopsis of the story, the theme of sarcas...

A Comparison of The Physician's and Clerk's Tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This research paper analyzes two portions of Chaucer's famous work, The Canterbury Tales. The author puts forth the proposition t...

'The Monk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and Religious Hypocrisy

In six pages this paper examines the religious hypocrisy represented in the Monk's personality in this Canterbury Tales' story. S...

Fragment Unity in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

notice that the fragments belong together, even though they do not necessarily share the same narrator or even the same point of v...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

How Anorexia in Featured in Texts by Cathi Hanauer and Margaret Atwood

In five pages anorexia as reflected in My Sister's Bones by Hanauer and The Edible Woman by Atwood are compared and contrasted in ...

Tom Outlander and the Cave Dwellers

In 10 pages this paper examines the Tom Outlander tale's themes and cave dwellers in an analysis of The Professor's House by Willa...

Margaret Atwood and Albert Camus on Alienation

In a paper that contains five pages it is argued that Camus' Meursault in The Stranger and the unnamed narrator in Atwood's second...

Postcolonial Fiction and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

In seven pages postcolonial fiction is defined in order to determine whether this 1996 novel is representative of the literary gen...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Destiny and Choice

In six pages 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are discussed in order to examine how the themes of destiny and cho...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...

'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood

as the world is filled with poison and chaos and destruction. They meet Oryx at a time when they are perhaps struggling to find so...

This is a Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood and The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz

him by his mother and even when he is old he still feels the sting of that loss, that memory he will never really know. Atwood ...

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Environment

returning home only to find his friends drunk and lost to the world. He essentially needs healing and he can only find healing thr...

'The Wife of Bath' Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

of Solomon and his many wives to basically justify her own marriages. Thus, we can see her as the devil who uses Scripture to suit...