The Blind Assassin Sparknotes

The New York Times Bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas entitled “The Assassin’s Blade” is, in my opinion, one of the best novel written. The genres of this book are fiction, fantasy fiction, and young adult fiction. This is a great book to read, the author of this book divided the book into five separate stories. The separate stories still flow together, and each has a different theme. I would highly recommend this book to young adults.

one, Iris Chase claims that her sister did not drive off the bridge because of the brakes, “she had her reasons.” This shows that something was up with the life of Laura Chase which Iris knew about. A sense of suspense is made in the reader. This quote is foreshadowing because it hints about something that caused Laura Chase to kill herself. Later on in the book, the life of Laura and Iris Chase is told. The reader is able to then find out why Laura really killed herself by driving off the bridge in her sister’s car. She was heartbroken due to the fact that her sister, Iris, had a secret affair with the man she loved so dearly, Alex. She loves him so much that she agrees

Nowadays, freedom is a fundamental right for each man and woman, but it is not a perfect concept. When one’s freedom is endangered, he can do unimaginable things, especially when love is at stake or can react weirdly when he acquires it. It’s exactly what Kate Chopin, a female American author during the 19th century, did when she treated about women’s conditions in the short-story Story of an Hour in 1894, where a woman falsely learns about his husband’s death. Almost 60 years later, Roald Dahl wrote Lamb To The Slaughter, set in Great Britain, where a woman kills her husband and hide the evidences cleverly. These two short stories are not only comparative on the two female protagonists and the imagery used, but also on the main themes

We all make mistakes that we later regret, but that's life. We need to focus more on just accepting to live with it.

The Blind Assassin’s protagonist is an elderly woman names Iris, who is troubled by a rough family past and her sister, Laura’s suicide which opens the novel. Iris’s troubles become especially apparent when she notices that she has difficulty sleeping, and that is when she visits her physician, who tells her that it is due to her trauma. However, she does not give her doctor any details, and rather than “spill the beans” (Atwood, 448) to anyone, or verbally tell anyone about her past in other words, she resorts to writing her memoir.Unfortunately, as Iris wishes to write everything that she experienced in her lifetime in her memoir, she finds herself unable to come to terms with her past, and overwhelmed with “the shameful and painful secrets that propel her narrative”, as described by J. Brooks Bouson, writer of “A Commemoration of Wounds Endured and Rested”: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin as Feminist Memoir (244, 255). Furthermore, Iris seems to blame herself for the suicide of Laura, since Iris was more of the “dutiful and self-sacrificial daughter” of them both when Laura was still alive, while Laura was “Iris’s shadow self”, according to Bouson

Through the setting of the novel, Atwood examines a woman’s role and contribution to society. Throughout history, oppressive regimes

We live in the year 2017, yet we still see a major gap in the treatment and outlooks towards men and women. This however is not a newly implemented construct but has been prevalent since the beginning of time, as demonstrated in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. In this novel we see many examples in which the protagonist of the novel, Janie, is shamed and outcasted due to her identity and actions. Janie in many ways experiences racism, sexism, and stereotyping in which corresponds and propezies the treatment of women in the 21st century.

The author, Margaret Atwood demonstrates the theme that in a violent isolated world, feminism is despised by the offended society, the inhuman treatment that women received may lead to physical and psychological perils; conversely, one’s firm belief could embody hope and reveal a precise future. Atwood uses irony to impart the theme. Significantly, the protagonist Offred feels she increasingly losing control of her body as “ an instrument, of pleasure” (Atwood 84). But the infinite emptiness inside her can never swap out the

The narrator is given a sense of oppression from the beginning of the story by keeping a hidden diary from her husband as “a relief to her mind.” Throughout the story her true thoughts are hidden from the readers and her husband, which gives the story a symbolic perspective.

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The performance, Assassins, premiered last weekend was a must see for many students. Directed by Professor Lee Blair and choreographed by Professor General McArthur Hambrick, the show focuses on a group of people who have tried to assassinate many different Presidents of the United States. Instead of it being informative about these events, the performance went all out and made the story into a satire, or a form of mockery, about the kinds of people who wanted to murder a President. The show included a lot of humor, ironies, exaggerations, and ridiculous moments to exposed and criticize the reasonings for why they even wanted to kill them in the first place.

In a nation brimming with discrimination, violence and fear, a multitudinous number of hearts will become malevolent and unemotional. However, people will rebel. In the eye-opening novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini, the country of Afghanistan is exposed to possess cruel, treacherous and sexist law and people. The women are classified as something lower than human, and men have the jurisdiction over the women. At the same time, the most horrible treatment can bring out some of the best traits in victims, such as consideration, boldness, and protectiveness. Although, living in an inconsiderate world, women can still carry aspiration and benevolence. Mariam and Laila (the main characters of A Thousand Splendid Suns)

Reading literature, at first, might seem like simple stories. However, in works like William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily,” Katherine Mansfield's “Miss Brill,” and Kate Chopin's “The Storm,” the female protagonists are examples of how society has oppressive expectations of them simply because of their gender.

Though set in entirely dissimilar countries at different points in history, Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’ and Hannah Kent’s ‘Burial Rites’ possess significant comparisons. Both for instance, are fictionalized historical novels following the tribulations of a female protagonist convicted of murder and both have been widely acclaimed for their incredible literary style which merges classic poetry, epigraphs, folklore and historical articles with fiction. The most striking parallel between each novel that can be drawn, however, is the way in which authors masterfully craft the stories of untrustworthy, cunning and deceptive criminals to elicit sympathy from their audiences. Readers of the novel and secondary characters alike are gradually pulled into sympathising with ambiguous and untrustworthy female leads, Grace Marks (Alias Grace) and Agnes Magnusdottir (Burial Rites). Despite the heavy suspicions of others and a lack of evidence to support their claims of innocence, these characters present artfully manipulated features of their defence stories to provoke empathy, sympathy and trust from those within the novel, and those reading it.

As a feminist, it is almost to be expected that many of Angela Carter’s happy ever after endings will strike the reader with a bold feminist message. However, in The Bloody Chamber, this is not necessarily the case. Although there are several feminist messages in the stories’ resolutions, these messages are not always presented in the way one would expect, and not every female protagonist is presented as a feminist character. By taking the roles of typically Gothic women and toying with the presentation of female characters, many of Carter’s feminist messages are not as one would expect.