Cat's Eye Essays

On the contrary, the novel Cat 's Eye, problematize the concepts of home and homelessness, in order to show how discourses of home are an extension of discourses of nation and national belonging and how these are based on exclusion and oppression. In Cat’s Eye, the visual artist Elaine Risley travels from Vancouver, where she lives in exile from her past, back to Toronto for a retrospective of her work. She starts to remember other journeys that belong to her adolescence, when her family moved from

what you are recognized as by your friends and yourself. The actions that people take throughout their childhood and into their adulthood shape their identity and help develop the person you are. This concept of identity is evident in the novel Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood. The character Elaine Risley tells the stories of her growing up as a child and how it influenced her life as an adult. Through her friends, her traditions and experiences, her identity begins to take shape. Similar to Elaine’s

Additionally the central image of Atwood’s Cat’s Eye is clearly a blue cat’s eye marble, which re appears a number of times during the course of Elaine’s turbulent journey toward maturity. Particularly, where Elaine elaborates on the game of marbles itself, its value seems to be its beauty. Although she does play marbles at school risking, the loss of her cat’s eye marbles, she actually risks losing the blue one. Instead, she keeps it in her red plastic purse. Her brother, a far better shot, hides

The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns describes the plight of the Afghan women both under the patriarchal social systems of the Afghan society and the brutal forces of political parties. Hosseini actually gives a message through this novel by showing the power of unity through the main characters, Mariam and Laila. With these two characters he has raised the issue of feminism and gender equity. The novel stresses over the rights of women who are not given access to education and freedom of choice. Male

A critical analysis of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. The God of Small Things, in many ways reflective of her own life experiences and journeys, is Arundhati Roy’s acclaimed masterpiece. It looks at the many layers and aspects of life under the shadow of its time- a newly emerged Kerala after independence that lived in denial of its Anglicization, a conservative Ayemenem town facing spurts and waves of change trying to embrace the ideology of communism. With the protagonist twins Estha

Throughout a time of conflict, a positive outlook on the current situation can help someone survive even the most difficult of situations. An opposing viewpoint to this claim is that a positive outlook might be a denial of the situation, however, having a positive attitude is just seeing the best in every situation that someone is faced with, not denying that it exists. During her time in hiding Anne Frank used a positive attitude to make the time she spent in hiding much more enjoyable for her

those who seem to go against the government. In Moira’s society, she is constantly monitored; she is assigned one job and that is to reproduce. Meanwhile, Penelope’s society has imprisoned her in another planet until she can see herself through the eyes of her fathers. Both governments use manipulative propaganda and the appearance of deliverance, to subjugate Moira and Penelope, resulting in different reactions from the women. Moira, in The Handmaid’s Tale, experienced manipulative propaganda

He tried desperately to get others to see his ways. In fact on page 100 he even revealed a book to his wife's friends. “ But Montag was gone and back in a moment with a book in his hand”. It was clear montag's goal was to try and open up someone’s eyes, anyones

Erika Kohut lives a double life. She has her role in society as a respected piano teacher and an alter ego that engages in voyeurism and sadomasochism. She has two realities, one that is expected of her by society and another of her private escape which consists of her sexual fantasies and her quest for a specific kind of intimacy. Her sexual fantasies are deemed by society as madness, but that madness is actually what keeps her sane. Erika lives a suffocating life that can be regarded as different

A fetish, as categorized by Sigmund Freud in his article “Fetish,” develops after a young boy realizes the genital differences of the sexes—that women lack a penis (Freud, 153). The anxiety that is produced from this awareness is quickly forgotten, due to the fact the woman possesses something else: breasts, feet, legs, etc. But ultimately the young boy is unaware of the feelings that are occurring. Fetishized elements are present in Russ Meyer’s 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Meyer employs

The two poems are written in different ways, however. They oppose each other and show that the problematic is different. Mrs. Faust is written in the first person («I» line 2) and the speaker is clearly Mrs. FAUST («I married Faust» line 2, and she is talking about Mr. FAUST, so she is necessairly the Mrs. FAUST that the title talks about). The way the poem is written by her is such that the reader feels like this is a list, since the sentences used by the speaker are very short and direct. Also

A dystopia is normally defined as an unfavourable society. Dystopian literature follows exactly this definition, and is written around a society that is actively working against the protagonist’s desires of liberty and decent living conditions. The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell talks about a future with a totalitarian government that (successfully) attempts to manipulate its inhabitants. This literary piece conforms to the conventions of dystopian literature because it’s written

The purpose of my paper is to scrutinize closely the concept of social satire, revealing and thereby amending the society’s blight in relation to the novel, The Edible Woman by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The novel is unambiguously interested in the complex body truths in the Consumerist Society. In The Edible Woman, Atwood furnish a critique of North American consumer society in the 1960s from a feminist point of view. As a feminist social satire, it takes specific bend at the way society

Ibsen is believed to be the “master” of symbolism. (Styan, 1981). In Hedda Gabler, Ibsen uses symbolism to portray the internal chaos and disorder of his protagonist. Ibsen often deals with the conflict with the internal self. (Watson, 1983) Ibsen gives a new, symbolic and deeper meaning to ordinary objects such as a room, fire, the manuscript, Thea’s hair and the pistol. Each of these objects signifies a different element of Hedda’s character. Styan discusses how these symbols are integrated with

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”- Helen Keller Cat’s Eye is a narrative based on a woman that is going through friendships that shaped her identity. A Separate Peace was also a narrative book that is based on a boy that had a very strong friendship between men. How the main characters in each book are affected by their superiors, and how it shapes their character development. How each of the character’s personalities shaped their identities for the worse

In The Woman Who Had Two Navels, Nick Joaquin develops certain parallelisms in Connie Escobar’s and Dr. Monson’s characteristics, alluding their relationship to an underlying theme in the novel: the idea of reconnecting to an identity. This essay will discuss how both characters initially deviate from the attainment of their identities because of their escape from reality and how they find their way back through their meeting in Chapter V. The main definition of an identity in the novel is stated

In Sontag’s fiction, freedom and self are the two things that Jekyll eager for. Freedom, certainly means fancy free, however, it’s far from the so-called illusion that someone can do what he or she wishes without restraint in the real society. (柯英， 2013) She cites the Sartre’s words to lead to the other aspect of freedom, reads as if I am a short person, can I have the chance to be a tall man? If I am a one-armed person, can I make the choice to be a double-armed man? These two questions exactly

Margaret Atwood’s seventh novel Cat’s Eye (1988) was published by McClelland and Stewart. Since its publication Atwood won several awards including the Coles Book of the Year Award, the Torgi Talking Book Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, the Canadian Book sellers Association Author of the Year Award, the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in conjunction with the Periodical Marketers of Canada Book of the year Award furthermore she was also short-listed for the Bookers prize

Cat’s Eye is not my first Atwood novel and it certainly won’t be my last. Never have I read an author that can capture the complexities of human nature so succinctly. I absolutely adored Cat’s Eye not only for the beautiful narration but also because of the cultural references (post-war life, feminist movement, modern art) that give the story such a strong backdrop. Margaret Atwood The novel follows Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who has returned to her childhood home, Toronto, for a retrospective

The first journal article provides explanations about how the bullying is presented in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and how it affects the main character’s to the point she hurt herself to escape from the emotional pain she had to bear. The article shows that the physical and emotional bullying directed towards Elaine comes from the fact that she was different form her other friends, who mostly came from strongly dominant patriarchal families. She dressed and acted differently for her father gave