Topic Proposal
For my topic proposal which is related to Atwood’s “The Handmaids Tale” would be how this is or is this in some way a piece of literature which could be looked at as being a feminist view or maybe a piece of feminist work. This was written in 1985 and is ahead of the equal female movement, but in some ways this book is about sex, drug, politics, government control, and female imprisonment. The literature in this book to me, seems in some ways as a feminist view and maybe in some way the Author’ history may and what time era the author may have lived in will show why she has written the way she has. I would like to learn more about the author and come to a conclusion on why she may have written this fictional book.
I would like to research the author’s other fictional books and maybe even non-fictional books to see a better perspective of the way the author thinks. The Handmaid’s tale was written 16 years after Atwood’s first fictional book “The Edible Woman” and 13 years after Atwood’s nonfictional book “Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature”. After researching these two books and Atwood’s background (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/margaret-atwood/) I believe I will have a better understanding of Atwood’s text and the choice of words she uses in her books. A person’s history will tell you a great deal about them in present time and will help you understand them better than trying to research in their current time.