Margaret Atwood Spotty-handed villainesses 1994

To entertain her audience ( sense of humour) inform and challenge many of the feminism ideals Show her insight on how women are being portrayed as by linking the women to female protagonist/antagonist in novels, short stories and plays explore the issue of feminisms influence on literature Explore the main regions of genres and fictions texts Challenge the views of her audience( audience being women) Established the thought that it was satisfactory to describe some women as evil in writing as they are not completely false in today's world and can be related to women in society the murderers, the seducers, the espionage agents, the cheats, the bad mothers and the stepmothers Highlighted the good and bad in women, by exploring their roles portrayed by literature and different type of women based characters Margaret Atwood was considered to be a controversial writer in Canada she was/is a feminist Started many radical views to debate on e.g. feminism She campaigned against the oppression of women and pushed for equal rights in all aspects of life for women She is a feminist writer, her stories bring up issues of women in literature, the contrasting nature of women being portrayed in texts and those in real life the feminist movement started in the 1960s and she was considered to be a very influential feminist Even though she was influential she was not on the extreme side of feminism Speech was delivered when feminism vs counter feminism occurred

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Role of Women in Society Supports the depiction of evil and good women characters are in fiction 'we have not enough evil in us women should be free to choose whether they want to be seen as good or bad and it is wrong to deny them the right to have evil in them changing role of women in society the change that women in literature have gone through, what role women had in society was reflective in the time period the literature was written in Praises the role of women in society, expanding their horizons yet criticizes it-> extreme feminism comparing that of fictional females to women show a parallel progression of the role of women in society relationship between literature and reality difference is that: - in literature there is a requirement that something has to happen- require definite action plot, climax to be engaged in a text. - In reality we dont require action and are satisfied with the lack of the something that we require in literature- we are happy with a kind of eternal breakfast and we ask for nothing to really happen

Reality vs Fiction

 Spotty handed villainess- the title itself is an allusion to Lady Macbeth who is seen as a flawed character , planning and influencing her husband to kill King Duncan. And not reacting at all to the blood on her husband's hands. Remorseless -> showing that women aren't always good Informal language, humour which allows for her to engage with her audience anecdote in the opening of her speech "little girl who had a curl. Colloquialisms allows her to engage her audience without making the speech to serious "flogging a few dead horses. Use of colloquial sentences like sex bomb, breaking the stereotype of women not saying worse like that Rhetorical question what is a novel?which she answers too. Biblical Allusion compares the job of a novelist to Gods task of creating the world, one detail at a time this shows how hard writing actually is Historical & literary references Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Shakespeare Lady Macbeth. She uses these female characters as a way to use their characteristics and apply them to the real life women. paradox, juxtaposition women who wore high-heels and make-up and those in overalls. Repetition to constantly remind people of her belief "novels are not

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