Rape Fantasy by Margaret Atwood

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My eyes were caught by the title "rape fantasy" at the first time I saw this essay because it was so sensitive that most people are not willing to talk about it. After finish reading this novel, Estelle and her six fantasies gave me deep impression.

The novel told in the Estelle’s mouth and it was started itself by quoting magazines content. At first, Estelle just talked about the universality of rape fantasy and June Allyson’s movies. And then, she brought the topic into the rape fantasy with a really natural sentence: “For instance, day before yesterday, that would be Wednesday, we were sitting around in the women’s lunch room……” It just like Estelle brought you into their conversation by close-ups.

In my eyes, Estelle is a na?ve narrator and her naivete is disproved. From her first fantasy, she went so far as to ask the rapeman to help her to find her plastic lemon in her purse. More surprising is that the rapeman so far as to help Estelle. At last, Estelle squirt him in the eye by the lemon. That is ridiculous and it will never appear this situation in the real life. What wil...

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