Margaret Atwood Research Paper

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a famous, best-selling, Canadian novelist, poet, and critic. She is best known as a novelist. Many of her novels focus on women’s issues. Her most renowned pieces include The Edible Woman, written in 1969 and The Handmaid's Tale, written in 1985, which was made into a film. In 1989, Cat's Eye qualified for the Booker Award, however it fell short of winning the prize. Atwood finally won the award for The Blind Assassin. She has written many other works which have been translated into over thirty languages. Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1939. In her early years, she spent half of each year in the wilderness of northern Ontario. . Her father worked as an insect scientist. During these long periods of time, Atwood enjoyed writing plays with morals, poems, and comic books. This all stopped when she was 11. Later on, her love for writing reappeared in high school along with the commitment of pursuing a career related with writing and literature. Margaret studied at the University of Toronto, Victoria College, Radcliffe College and Harvard University.

A few of her books are considered the best book of Canadian literature. Atwood has a blunt and vivid style of writing. Her novels include jabs at society, forcing us, as readers, to take a new outlook at ourselves. In Oryx and Crake, she addresses our reliance on technology and what the technology does to us. In The Handmaiden’s Tale, she addresses the male governing body that has a firm grasp on every female. Atwood makes us, as humans, view our society in ways we would not like to view ourselves. Her books, although controversial, makes us look on ourselves and admit that we are not perfect no matter how much we would like to be. Without her, now and before, we would most likely try not to view ourselves as imperfect. We would push ourselves to see only the good, never the