Corpus de référence :The Blind Assassin. Seal Books : 2000. The bridge. pp. 3-5.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. The bridge was being repaired : she went right through the Danger sign. The car fell a hundred feet into the ravine, smashing through the treetops feathery with new leaves, then burst into flames and rolled down into the shallow creek at the bottom. Chunks of the bridge fell on top of it. Nothing was left of her but charred smithereens. I was informed of the accident by a policeman : the car was mine, and they'd traced th..

Margaret Atwood: 09-12-1979

Margaret Atwood, an award-winning Canadian poet and novelist, begins the interview by reading her poem “You Begin.” She continues by discussing the oral experience of poetry as well as outlining the distinction between the creative processes of poetry and fiction writing. She goes on to discuss the different relationships she has with her different national audiences and addresses her label as a feminist writer. The interview concludes with a discussion about the public and financial support for the arts in Canada.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_videos/1010/thumbnail.jp

The Robber Bride: a Dystopian Female World in Margaret Atwood’s Mythology

The aim of this paper is to show how Atwood’s reformulations of myths contain hidden political messages from ancient and modern history and can be interpreted from Fredric Jameson’s views on ‘symbolic acts,’ discourse and the ideology of form. Several scholars have explored the symbolic relationship between the three major protagonists in The Robber Bride and fragments of the omnipotent image of the Neolithic deity the White Goddess. As the symbolic counterparts of Diana, Venus and Hecate in the novel, Tony, Roz and Charis demonstrate how women’s integrity has been crippled and how the restoration of female principle is just a utopian idea. However, our analysis has revealed that the younger generation of “goddesses” does not bring hope to the female gender in either the present or the future. Augusta, Paula and Erin symbolize oversimplified and parodied versions of the destructive Hecate in an unpromising world and “the not-good place” that resembles a dystopia