Essays about: "Margaret Atwood"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 35 essays containing the words Margaret Atwood.

  1. 16. Religion, Power and Gender in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Societies : A Reading of The Year of the Flood and The Handmaid’s Tale

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Jennifer Gosser-Duncan; [2019]
    Keywords : Atwood; religion; power; gender; Foucault; dystopian novels;

    Abstract : Women are traditionally counted among the victims or losers in religious power plays. On the surface, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels give the impression that women will be the underdogs in these stories as well. READ MORE

  3. 17. Competition, Domination and Relationships between Serena and Offred : Challenging Gilead's Rules and Patriarchy in Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Hildegarde Charat; [2019]
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  4. 18. Moira, take me with you! : Utopian Hope and Queer Horizons in Three Versions of The Handmaid's Tale

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Hedvig Marx; [2018]
    Keywords : The Handmaid’s Tale; Margaret Atwood; Donna Haraway; Karen Barad; José Esteban Muñoz; utopia; dystopia; entanglement; diffraction; disidentification; gender studies; queer theory; intersectionality; narratology;

    Abstract : Using postmodern, feminist and queer notions of utopia/dystopia and narrative theory, this thesis contains an analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale (novel 1985; film 1990; TV series S01 2017) based on theoretical and methodological understandings of utopia/dystopia and narrative as deeply connected with notions of temporality and relationality, and of violence and resistance as the modes of expression of utopia and dystopia in the source texts. The analysis is carried out in an explorative manner (Czarniawska 2004) and utilises the notion of “disidentification” (Butler 1993; Muñoz 1999) and the concepts of “diffraction” (Haraway 1992, 1997; Barad 2007, 2010), and “entanglement” (Barad 2007). READ MORE

  5. 19. The Destructive Performance - A Feminist Reading of Three Texts Written by Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Johanna Molin; [2018]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” are three literary texts in which the three protagonists seem to play a role which makes them miserable and suicidal. This essay explores what elements that are involved in making these women unhappy and self-destructive. READ MORE

  6. 20. Enforcing Patriarchal Values : A socialist feminist analysis of the characters of Offred and Serena Joy in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Andrea Jonsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Margaret Atwood; The Handmaid’s Tale; dystopia; feminism; socialist feminism; color symbolism; Margaret Atwood; Tjänarinnans berättelse; dystopi; feminism; socialistisk feminism; färgsymbolik;

    Abstract : This essay shows how Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) functions as a critique of patriarchal society as it depicts a dystopic, dismantled society where women are divided into societal groups on biological grounds. Based on socialist feminist literary theory, an analysis is carried out of two of the female characters, Offred and Serena Joy, who are both oppressed by a patriarchal, totalitarian government; an oppression that is manifested in different ways. READ MORE