Margaret White

1.2.Early life Margaret Hilda Roberts was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 13 October 1925. She spent her childhood in Grantham. She had one sister Muriel, who was four years older. Her parents were Alfred and Beatrice Roberts. The family`s social life was lived largely within the close community of the local congregation, bounded by strong traditions of self-help, charitable work, and personal truthfulness.Her father Alfred Roberts was very active in local politics and the Methodist church,where

President this world has ever seen. On June 5, 2004 Ronald Reagan would pass away, and on that day the entire world darkened and wept because of what we had lost. On June 11, 2004, Margaret Thatcher, a former prime minister of England, delivered a eulogy to the people of America in honor of Ronald Reagan. In her speech Margaret Thatcher uses praising diction, ethos, and pathos to show the American people just how great the loss of Ronald Reagan was, and to praise him for not just what he's done, but for

Margaret Atwood’s, Oryx and Crake (2009) is told through Snowman and his life after the apocalypse. The reader learns about Snowman’s life before the apocalypse, when he was still known as Jimmy. Jimmy grew up in a world surrounded by biotechnology. Biotechnology plays a huge role in Jimmy’s life pre and post apocalypse life. As a child, Jimmy lives with his parents who are both scientists. Jimmy is exposed to biotechnology as a child (insert word) as his father works on a project that harvest pigs

A Canadian novelist Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa Canada in 1939. Furthermore she is a great poet, novelist, essayist, and environmental activist. “She grew up in Northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto” (“Canadian Poetry Online” 1). “She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.”(“The Famous People”1) Most of Margaret Atwood’s earlier short stories focus on the nervous transactions between men

Disempowerment leads to a loss of individual identity, the absolute power of leadership forcing citizens quiet, out of fear. A lowly ‘Handmaid’ Offred, narrates Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ giving us a personal insight into her thoughts and memories, how total control has impacted on individuals through a unique perspective on the new society: from point of view of the oppressed. Similarly, Michael D’Antuono’s ‘The Talk’ displays the corruption in leadership, subsequently creating a society

The Black and White World of Atwood's Surfacing        Many people elect to view the world and life as a series of paired opposites-love and hate, birth and death, right and wrong. As Anne Lamott said, "it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality" (104). This quote summarizes the thoughts of the narrator in Margaret Atwood's novel Surfacing.  The narrator, whose name is never mentioned, must confront a past that she has tried desperately to ignore (7). She sees herself

The book that I chose to read was The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. This book is a dystopian fiction novel that deals with themes of sex, freedom, gender roles, and the human spirit. The protagonist of the tale, Offred, narrates her personal experiences in a futuristic US in which the government was overthrown and women were forced into religiously-enforced traditional roles: as a wife, a servant, or a mother. This is due to a plague of infertility that has swept across the globe. She struggles

They stand behind the idea that women are inherently just as strong and intelligent as the so-called stronger sex. Many writers have taken up the cause of feminism in their work. One of the most well known writers to deal with feminist themes is Margaret Atwood. Her work is clearly influenced by the movement and many literary critics, as well as Atwood herself, have identified her as a feminist writer.

became interested in architecture as a profession from an early age, and, at the age of sixteen secured an apprenticeship with John Hutchison. In order to complete his apprenticeship, he enrolled in the Glasgow School of Art in 1884, where he met Margaret MacDonald, an artist and his future wife. Due to poor health, Mackintosh often spent weekends in the country-side, sometimes travelling with Herbert McNair, a friend who worked at the architect’s firm of Honeyman and Keppie, (where

1. On page 26, Margaret Atwood first mentions the names of other Handmaids. This is from the quote: “Offwayne. No. Ofwarren.” What jumped out at me here was how all of the mentioned handmaids seem to have their names beginning with ‘Of’. First of all, the letter O looks like a womb or an egg. This possibly hints at their already evident role in society- to procreate and have children for the commanders. But, if the reader goes a step further, it is evident all the handmaids have names that begin