https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops en-us 2022-02-11 23:00:26 UTC 2022-03-07 18:58:56 UTC hello@padlet.com mbarnett0017 https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2043276270 Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. Because of her father's research in forest entomology, Atwood spent much of her childhood in the backwoods of northern Quebec, and travelling back and forth between Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.]]> 2022-02-11 23:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2043276270 mbarnett0017 https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2043280592 Atwood has alternated prose and poetry throughout her career, often publishing a book of each in the same or consecutive years. While in a general sense the poems represent "private" myth and "personal" expression and the novels represent a more public and "social" expression. Atwood writes in an exact, vivid, and witty, style in both prose and poetry. Atwood's novels are sarcastic jabs at society as well as identity quests. Her typical heroine is a modern urban woman, often a writer or artist, always with some social-professional commitment. The heroine fights for self and survival in a society where men are the all-too-friendly enemy, but where women are often participants in their own entrapment. Atwood is also a talented photographer and watercolorist. Her paintings are clearly descriptive of her prose and poetry and she did, on occasion, design her own book covers. Her collages and cover for The Journals of Susanna Moodie bring together the visual and the written word.




]]> 2022-02-11 23:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2043280592 mbarnett0017 https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2043283960 Her writing was one of the many things she enjoyed in her time, away from school. At age six she was writing morality plays, poems, comic books, and had started a novel. School and preadolescence brought her a taste for home economics. Her writing resurfaced in high school, though, where she returned to writing poetry. Her favorite writer as a teen was Edgar Allan Poe who was famous for his dark mystery stories.  When Margaret Atwood was writing the book, she took inspiration from, the rise of the Christian right in America during the 1970s and 1980s, the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 and from a well-known, a woman in 17th century New England named Mary Webster, who was one of the people she dedicated the book to, and whom she later wrote a poem about.]]> 2022-02-11 23:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2043283960 mbarnett0017 https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2082334373 Canadian writer best known for her fiction and for her feminist perspective. In her early poetry collections like Double Persephone (1961), and The Animals in That Country (1968), Atwood ponders human behavior celebrates the natural world, and condemns materialism. Role reversal and new beginnings are recurrent themes in her novels, all of them centred on women seeking their relationship to the world and the individuals around them. The Handmaid's tale is constructed around the written record of a woman living in sexual slavery in a repressive Christian theocrcacy of the future that has seized power in the wake of an ecological upheaval; a TV series based on the novel premiered in 2017 and was cowritten by Atwood. Other novels by Atwood included the The Edible Woman, an exploration of the relationship between nature and culture that centres on a woman’s return to her childhood home in the northern wilderness of Quebec]]> 2022-03-07 18:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2082334373 mbarnett0017 https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2082346800 She attended Leaside High School in Leaside, Toronto, and graduated in 1957. In 1957, she began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. She graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honours) and minors in philosophy and French. In 1961, Atwood began graduate studies at Radcliffe College of Harvard University with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship. ]]> 2022-03-07 18:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarnett0017/6dqftbpngtlzpops/wish/2082346800