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What Is Margaret Atwood's Objectification Of Women?

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Margaret Atwood is a creative and revered Canadian writer who is know to be a social activist and an advocate of feminism. She is very broad in her work and has written poetry, novels, short stories, and books for children. Her poem “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing" portrays how women are treated as things and not human beings in the eyes of men. Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “To Helen” however is a complete opposite to Atwood’s poem and shows the love and respect that a man can have for a woman. In Atwood's poem "Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing” the speaker is portrayed as Helen from greek mythology who was seen by all as a trophy with no voice in her own life. The main topic of this poem is the objectification of women and how it runs

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