Advanced English speech analysis
Margaret Atwood ‘Spotty Handed Villainesses’ 1994:
Critic: Elzbieta Korolczuk: Author of: “One woman leads to another- Female Identity in the works of Margaret Atwood”
States: “Each character is desperately trying to acquire a stable self-concept.” ->Implies Margaret Atwood has not done this, as she forces them to choose between these identities. However, evidently, seen in Margaret Atwood’s speech, these two sides of a woman exist.
Theme: Identity of a Woman/equality. In order to portray a positive sense of identity of women, the composer must portray men in a less equal way. allusion “Adam is so subject to temptation that he sacrificed eternal life for an apple” making him seem inferior and foolish in order to amplify the equality of women. rhetorical questioning, “Isn’t bad behavior supposed to be the monopoly of men?” this creates doubt in the responder’s minds, whether women are the expected gender to be engaged in bad behavior, or whether it is expected by men more than women.
Adjective: “…a sensible middle class…woman who can snare an appropriate man with a good income” questions whether women having to attain success from a man, or are they capable of doing it themselves?
To allow women to establish their full potential, we must give women an equal opportunity to portray themselves. antithesis of “good” and “bad” in “When she was good, she was very very good, and when she was bad, she was horrid!” Here, the composer portrays women as having two extreme opposite personalities, which also imply that women can also have anything in between. disproving all women as “villainesses”.
Irony where “create flawless character you create an insufferable one” this depicts women face inequality, as they are required to live up to a flawless, perfect standard, and if she cannot reach this standard, she quickly becomes unbearable, due to the display of her imperfections, as human being. high modality in “something else has to happen” where the composer
Critic: Elzbieta Korolczuk: Author of: “One woman leads to another- Female Identity in the works of Margaret Atwood”
States: “Each character is desperately trying to acquire a stable self-concept.” ->Implies Margaret Atwood has not done this, as she forces them to choose between these identities. However, evidently, seen in Margaret Atwood’s speech, these two sides of a woman exist.
Theme: Identity of a Woman/equality. In order to portray a positive sense of identity of women, the composer must portray men in a less equal way. allusion “Adam is so subject to temptation that he sacrificed eternal life for an apple” making him seem inferior and foolish in order to amplify the equality of women. rhetorical questioning, “Isn’t bad behavior supposed to be the monopoly of men?” this creates doubt in the responder’s minds, whether women are the expected gender to be engaged in bad behavior, or whether it is expected by men more than women.
Adjective: “…a sensible middle class…woman who can snare an appropriate man with a good income” questions whether women having to attain success from a man, or are they capable of doing it themselves?
To allow women to establish their full potential, we must give women an equal opportunity to portray themselves. antithesis of “good” and “bad” in “When she was good, she was very very good, and when she was bad, she was horrid!” Here, the composer portrays women as having two extreme opposite personalities, which also imply that women can also have anything in between. disproving all women as “villainesses”.
Irony where “create flawless character you create an insufferable one” this depicts women face inequality, as they are required to live up to a flawless, perfect standard, and if she cannot reach this standard, she quickly becomes unbearable, due to the display of her imperfections, as human being. high modality in “something else has to happen” where the composer