Atwood's Fiction - Period 4 by Coleman https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq en-us 2017-11-09 17:53:37 UTC 2023-02-26 13:36:34 UTC hello@padlet.com Definition: https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205420346 The author  is a witness acts as a chronicler of devastation and destruction their society encountered. ]]> 2017-11-09 18:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205420346 Definition: A genre of literature to explore social and political structures in a dark nightmare like world. https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205420682 Ex.  The Handmaid's Tale

Dystopian Literature : A society characterized by poverty, squalor or oppression and the theme is most commonly used in science fiction and speculative fiction genres.]]> 2017-11-09 18:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205420682 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205420896 2017-11-09 18:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205420896 Writing Style https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205422277 The author depicts the personal story or life of who they are writing about. Whether in a diary format or birds-eye view of the story.  The author can depict words or pieces from personal recordings of the "character" they are telling the story of. To grasp the weight and importance or what is being written about.

This can include first-person narration. 

http://books.openedition.org/pur/30516?lang=en

]]> 2017-11-09 18:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205422277 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205422637 Atwood draws attention to social issues and sensitive topics. She satirizes our society.

Ex. Sex is satirized in “The Handmaids Tale”]]> 2017-11-09 18:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205422637 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205422701 Atwood defines speculative fiction as stories that are set on Earth and employs elements that already exist in some form.
https://www.wired.com/2013/09/geeks-guide-margaret-atwood/]]> 2017-11-09 18:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205422701 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205423298 2017-11-09 18:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205423298 Definition: https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205423978 Is the use of humor, and comedic comments that are meant to ridicule or criticize issues and/or politics ]]> 2017-11-09 18:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205423978 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205424511 The aim of satire is to be entertaining as well as critical]]> 2017-11-09 18:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205424511 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205424943 The protagonist writes their story, and then hides in in hope of a future reader.
"This is an act of hope" -Atwood
https://qz.com/930626/margaret-atwood-explains-why-the-handmaids-tale-is-so-compelling/]]> 2017-11-09 18:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205424943 Examples 074467499 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205426325 The Hunger Games, 1984, Oryx and Crake, Brave New World, Fahrenheight 451]]> 2017-11-09 18:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205426325 Propaganda is used to control the citizens of the society. https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205426913 Citizens have a fear of the outside world.]]> 2017-11-09 18:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205426913 The Dystopian Protagonist https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205431127 Often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.]]> 2017-11-09 18:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205431127 074467499 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205433913 The common perception of the role of female characters in speculative fiction works has long been dominated by one of two stereotypes: a woman who is evil (villainess) or one who is helpless (damsel in distress). The Handmaid's Tale portrays its women as weak and powerless, following the stereotype of helplessness.]]> 2017-11-09 18:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205433913 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205433988 2017-11-09 18:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205433988 Example https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205434473 Anne Frank writes a diary and leaves it behind in hopes of a future reader soshe  can bring awareness the the social issue that was occurring.]]> 2017-11-09 18:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205434473 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205434610 In the Handmaids Tale Atwood draws attention to unpleasing, brutal and disturbing events in the past and present day.]]> 2017-11-09 18:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205434610 Why Is Satire Used In Literature? https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205434767 Shows foolishness or irony, (typically witht the use of sarcasm, or ridiculing) to prevent political or social change, or to enforce political / social change. 

]]> 2017-11-09 18:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205434767 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205435190 Help audience recognize negative aspects of the dystopian world. Questions existing social and political systems. ]]> 2017-11-09 18:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205435190 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205435933 “Every recorded story implies a future reader Robinson Crusoe keeps a journal. So did Samuel Pepys, in which he chronicled the Great Fire of London. So did many who lived during the Black Death, although their accounts often stop abruptly. So did Roméo Daillaire, who chronicled both the Rwandan genocide and the world’s indifference to it. So did Anne Frank, hidden in her secret annex.” - Margaret Atwood]]> 2017-11-09 18:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205435933 Examples recommended by Atwood 074467499 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205436035 1984, Brave New World, The Water Knife, The Parable of the Sower (not the religious parable)]]> 2017-11-09 18:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205436035 Ex. Political comedy sketch in newspapers https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440074 2017-11-09 18:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440074 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440145 Attempts to make the reader rethink his or her own world based on the experiences described in the novel.]]> 2017-11-09 18:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440145 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440252 2017-11-09 18:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440252 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440573 Chaotic world of state or corporate control and of de-humanized construct.]]> 2017-11-09 18:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440573 Atwood's Present Opinion 074467499 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440737 In relation to the United States' current political situation, "...it is a certainty that someone, somewhere- many, I would guess- are writing down what is happening as they themselves are experiencing it. Or they will remember, and record later, if they can.
Will their messages be suppressed and hidden? Will they be found, centuries later, in an old house, behind a wall?
Let us hope it doesn’t come to that. I trust it will not.”

]]> 2017-11-09 18:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205440737 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205442614 Atwood says science fiction is “filled with martians and space travel to other planets and things like that.”]]> 2017-11-09 18:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205442614 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205442722 2017-11-09 18:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205442722 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205442954 2017-11-09 18:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205442954 Examples https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205780798 Maze Runner, Hunger games , The Giver, and Divergent]]> 2017-11-10 18:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205780798 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205780842 Usually told through the perspective of the person rebelling against society ]]> 2017-11-10 18:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205780842 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205780965 ‘Handmaids Tale’ brings attention to sensitive topics such as rape and degrading women. Some schools found the book offensive and Atwood responded, “if you see a person heading towards a huge hole in the ground, is it not a friendly act to warn him?” She also argued that the bible has more talk of sex than her book]]> 2017-11-10 18:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205780965 https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205781201 "All dystopias are telling you is to make sure you've got a lot of canned goods and a gun"  - 
Atwood.]]> 2017-11-10 18:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/canadianfreckles/sa9s1uz4ufeq/wish/205781201