Margaret Atwood Essay Research Paper

Margaret Atwood Essay, Research Paper

"There is so much silence between the words…" SOCI 4019 September

29, 1999. An Overview of Works, Styles, and Themes Margaret Atwood has written a

great number of novels and other forms of literature. The major press editions

are as follows: ~ WORKS~ Poetry . 1964, The Cirle Game . 1968, The Animals in

That Country . 1970, The Journals of Susanna Moodie . 1970, Procedures for

Underground . 1971, Power Politics . 1974, You are Happy . 1978, Selected

Poems . 1978, Two-Headed Poems . 1981, True Stories . 1984, Interlunar .

1987, Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986 . 1990, Selected

Poems 1966-1975 . 1995, Morning in the Burned House Short Fiction . 1977,

"Dancing Girls" . 1983, "Murder in the Dark" . 1983,

"Bluebeard’s Egg" . 1991, "Wilderness Tips" . 1992,

"Good Bones" Novels . 1969, The Edible Woman 1985, The Handmaid’s

Tale . 1972, Surfacing 1988, Cat’s Eye . 1976, Lady Oracle 1993, The Robber

Bride . 1979, Life Before Man 1996, Alias Grace . 1981, Bodily Harm Children’s

Books . 1978, Up in the Tree . 1980, Anna’s Pet . 1990, For the Birds .

1995, Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut Non-Fiction . 1972, Survival: A

Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature . 1977, Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 .

1982, Second Words: Selected Critical Prose . 1995, Strange Things: The

Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Edited . 1982, The New Oxford Book of

Canadian Verse in English . 1986, The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in

English . 1987, The Canlit Foodbook . 1989, The Best American Short Stories .

1995, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English ~ STYLE ~

Although many have used Margaret Atwoods style of writing poetry, not one has

yet to compete with her words. Typically, Margaret sticks to formal style of

poetry, using original text with separated stanzas. Margarets stlye of writing

gives an overwhelming effect to the reader; moreover, her style of writing

adjusts to the theme of the particular piece. ~ THEMES ~ The essential features

of Atwood.s fictions and poetry has been described as a search for a personal

and national identity. Survival is a central theme throughout her works, as is

the quest for self unity. Biography Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario,

on November 18, 1939. Because her father was a forest entomologist, Atwood spent

most of her childhood living in the Canadian Wilderness. During the eight months

of each year that her father did insect research in the forest, the Atwood

family lived in .a cabin with a wood stove and several kerosene lanterns.

There were bears and wolves and moose and loons. ( qtd. in .Author

Profile.). While this lifestyle was exciting, she did not have most modern

conviences and technology. To entertain herself, Atwood read books. They became

her only means for entertainment and escape. .I read them all, even when they

weren.t supposed to be for children. (qtd. in .Author Profile.). During

this childhood of reading, Atwood also began to write. By the age of six, ATwood

was writing poems, morality plays, comic books, and an unfinished novel about an

ant. Ten years later, Atwood decided that she only wanted to write. She wanted

to live a double life; to go places she had not been before; to examine life on

earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that were otherwise

impossible; to be surprised; and to give something of what she had received. Two

years after this life-altering decision, Atwood entered Victoria College at the

University of Toronto. She received her bachelor.s degree from Victoria

College in 1961, and then went on to receive her Master.s degree from

Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Atwood also received education

from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during 1962-63 and 1965-67.

Atwood began her career through self-publication. She sold these books for fifty

cents each. During this period, Atwood married Graeme Gibson, a fellow writer

who was born in London, Ontario, in 1934. Togehter, they have three grown

children and two cats. Although Atwood both grew up and resides presently in

Canada, she ahs lived in numerous cities throughout the world. The Canadian

residences include Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton,

Alliston, and Vancouver. In the United States, Atwood has lived in Boston,

Massachusetts, and in Alabama. She has also lived and travelled in England,

France, Italy , and Germany. Geographical, Historical, Political and Social

Influences With respect to the fact that Atwood was raised, and spent most of

her childhood in the Canadian wilderness, it is safe to say that her

geographical surroundings influenced her in several ways. While residing in the

wilderness of Canada, Atwood discovered her ture passion – literature. Some say

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