可以吃的女人.ppt

TheEdibleWoman TheEdibleWoman TheEdibleWoman 英语1203李静婷 CATALOGUE author brief introduction plot character analysis Gist My Thought Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor Generals Award seven times, winning twice. She is also a founder of the Writers Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canadas writing community. Atwood, who was surrounded by intellectual dialogue by the female faculty members at Victoria College at UofT, often portrays female characters dominated by patriarchy in her novels.Still, Atwood denies that The Edible Woman, for example, published in 1969 and coinciding with the early second wave of the feminist movement, is feminist and claims that she wrote it four years before the movement. Atwood believes that the feminist label can only be applied to writers who consciously work within the framework of the feminist movement. Marian McAlpin is a waoman who have knowledge of in the new generation.She had a boyfriend who works as a laywer and they are going to be married.However,she also met Duncan once she was doing a survey,and they had affair with each other.As the wedding is almost here,Marians appitude became worse and worse, nervous increasely breakdown.Aftera party and Duncans leaveing, Marian realizes that Peter is metaphorically devouring her. To test him, she bakes a pink cake in the shape of a woman and dares him to eat it. This is what you really want, she says, offering the cake woman as a substitute to him feeding upon her. Peter leaves, disturbed. Marian eats the cake herself.Then Marian recoverd herself. begining climax end Marian McAlpin works in a market research firm, writing survey questions and sampling products. She shares