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    The short stories “Rape Fantasies” and The Other Place” are both short stories that have ominous sounding titles and are both different but I many ways very similar. “Rape Fantasies,” as you can guess, is about the very taboo subject of rape. Furthermore, “The Other Place” is about violence subject matter and taboo subjects of violence involving the narrator and his son’s violent thoughts. The short stories “Rape Fantasies” and The Other Place” are similar pieces of work due to their similarities

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    In Margaret Atwood’s Rape Fantasies, the narrator Estelle describes her “rape fantasies” in which is never assaulted. Initiated by a conversation with her coworkers about their controversial daydreams, Estelle recounts her own reoccurring visions, though hers differ from those discussed between the women. Throughout the piece, Atwood utilizes stream of conscious writing to show her narrator’s jumbled thoughts as she describes her “fantasies.” Atwood’s short story depicts a narrator inexperienced

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    for it” society creates a blase approach to the topic of rape and makes people feel ashamed and inadequate when it does happen. These phrases perpetuate rape culture and makes it possible for this crime rate to remain high. In 1977, Margaret Atwood published “Rape Fantasies” in Dancing Girls, a collection of short stories. Atwood spins a story revolving around one woman, Estelle, and her coworkers. The co workers tell their fantasies about “rape” when in actuality it’s only anonymous sex and Estelle

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    What is your rape fantasy? “Rape fantasies” illustrates the misconceptions pop culture taught society and women about rape through the reoccurring irony and vulnerability theme. Throughout the story, the narrator named Estelle speaks in first person with her coworkers as they share their sexual fantasies. The excerpt conversation begins with Chrissy when she asks, “What are your rape fantasies?” To put the word rape and fantasy in the same sentence is erroneous because there is nothing fantasizing

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    son, Douglas, as Douglas demonstrates a similar affection for the destruction of human persistence to survive. In disturbance of collective headway, Margaret Atwood’s “Rape Fantasies” (1977), expresses a group of individuals whom talk about a magazine and turns it into a conversational masterpiece through discussion of tolerable rape. Beings residing within society who take at their own preference to go to undesirable conditions to meet undesirable shadows of morally baseless beings. In such aspects

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    In Fun Home and “Rape Fantasies” the main characters are being victimized. Allison struggles with her sexuality and also the understanding of why her father’s death took place in Fun Home. She finds herself dealing with the problem of accepting and understanding her sexuality. She feels as though the reason for her sexuality is her father’s fault due to the choices and actions he made. In “Rape Fantasies” the author portrays the scenes in the story to be the main characters and also the other women

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    In “Rape Fantasies,” by Margaret Atwood, the narrator converses with her female friends about their secret desire to be raped, which causes her to reflect on the true nature of the crime. Although “the magazines,” a synecdoche for society, portray rape using imagery of handsome men in dark alleys, the narrator realizes that in reality, rape is non-violent, repulsive, and in the majority of cases, carried out by an acquaintance of the victim. By describing this contrast between the women’s rape fantasies

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    Atwood's Rape Fantasies The author of the short story Rape Fantasies is Margaret Atwood - She is a renowned Canadian writer of poetry and fiction, she is best known for her novel The Handmaids Tail. The short story that I chose Rape Fantasies comes from Atwood?s first collection of short stories called Dancing girls and Other Stories.      ?Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent?                               Eleanor Roosevelt           The story Rape Fantasies

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    tree in that his son, Douglas, demonstrates a similar affection for the destruction of human persistence to survive. In disturbance of collective headway, Margaret Atwood’s “Rape Fantasies” (1977), expresses a group of individuals whom take about a magazine as a conversational masterpiece through discussion of tolerable rape. Beings residing within society who take at their own preference to go to undesirable conditions to meet undesirable shadows of morally baseless beings. In such aspects, these

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    The Rape Fantasies of a Fun Home Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir written by American cartoonist and memoirist Alison Bechdel. Alison began her career by illustrating and writing comic strips for Dykes to Watch Out which debuted in 1983. Alison Bechdel was an LGBT activist who tells her unraveling story recalling her early years about struggling with self-identity while coming to understand her father 's enclosed identity as well. Contrary, Rape Fantasies was written and published

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