Essays about: "Margaret Atwood"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 35 essays containing the words Margaret Atwood.

  1. 21. Everybody Loves a Bad Girl - A Study of Female Evil in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Elina Cederfeldt Vahlne; [2018]
    Keywords : Literature; Feminism; Gender; Evil; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay examines the two female antagonists Zenia from Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride and Amy Dunne from Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. It explores traditional female evil in literature, and compares the two villains to the traditional roles that evil women often have. READ MORE

  3. 22. THE FALSE PROMISE OF ‘USTOPIA’. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy: Utopian Feminist Romp or Dystopian Postfeminist Cautionary Tale?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Susanna Rokka; [2016-09-26]
    Keywords : engelska; feminism; subjectivity; gender; dystopia; utopia; Margaret Atwood;

    Abstract : The Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy is a text that attempts a critical rebalancing of an established gender hierarchy. The novels expose the fundamental power imbalances present in a binary gender system. READ MORE

  4. 23. Too Late for Snowman : Transhumanist Ideals in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Sofia Åsman; [2016]
    Keywords : Transhumanism; Margaret Atwood; Posthuman; Oryx and Crake;

    Abstract : This essay attempts to study transhumanism and its role in the anthropogenic pandemic at the center of the novel, in order to show that transhumanist thought was a driving factor behind it. By looking at transhumanist concerns in the portrayed society, and the beliefs of Crake, one uncovers that Crake was able to exploit the desire for enhancement of humanity as a whole in order to achieve the ultimate transhumanist goal: the near-perfect and immortal posthuman Crakers. READ MORE

  5. 24. Disrupting Female Stereotypes : The Feminine Difference and the Challenge of Patriarchal Norms in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Marianne Clausen; [2016]
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  6. 25. Women, Animals and Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Approach to Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Michel Faber's Under the Skin

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Anne Drewett; [2016]
    Keywords : Margaret Atwood; The Edible Woman; Michel Faber; Under The Skin; Carol J. Adams; feminist-vegetarian critical theory; interlocking oppressions; absent referent; patriarchy; speciesism; gender; sexualisation; objectification; women; animals; meat;

    Abstract : In this thesis, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Michel Faber’s Under the Skin are analysed from the perspective of feminist-vegetarian critical theory. Both texts deal with the idea of feeling like or being meat, but approach this idea from different angles. READ MORE