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A 6 page paper which provides background information on the author, then compares and contrasts the style of writing, the themes, and the main characters of each book. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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as a child. There is a freedom in this prairie environment that doesnt exist anywhere else, and for the young Margaret Atwood, it represented Utopia. This rugged terrain
fueled her creative imagination and cemented her reputation as the quintessential Canadian author. There have been few authors in the history of Canadian literature who have been more celebrated
or respected internationally. Furthermore, Atwood is regarded as a feminist and her postmodern texts often explore the trials and tribulations suffered by women as a result of a male-dominated
society. Atwoods heroines bear little resemblance to the aristocratic protagonists featured in the novels of Jane Austen, perhaps the United Kingdoms first literary feminist (Goldblatt 275). Instead, they
are ordinary women who are struggling to survive amid extraordinary circumstances, with their individual identities and sense of self intact. This is particularly evident in two of Atwoods most
popular and critically acclaimed novels, The Handmaids Tale, first published in 1986, and Alias Alice, published ten years later. In each of these tales, there is a strong female
protagonist, who has experienced some form of social injustice and repression. Neither one of these stories are traditional in the sense that there is always a tidy or satisfactory
resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguous Alias Grace, Atwood forces the readers to draw their own conclusions. These texts are
both representative of postmodern fiction in that they dont adhere to the classical structural form. In fact, both works often blur past and present, fantasy and reality, which is
a style reminiscent of poetic free verse, which is Atwoods preferred literary style. The Handmaids Tale is a futuristic third-person narrative told by Offred, who discusses the twenty-first century Republic
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