Margaret Atwood’s poem, A Bus Along ST.Clair: December, written in Susanna Moodie’s perspective, presents an idea of nature against civilization; in addition, Susanna Moodie’s pioneering settlement. The title suggests that aboard a bus, a transportation for modern society which carries nemorous people to a new destination, along ST. Clair. In addition, bus on the ST.Clair street runs from east to west which associates with Susanna Moodie’s immigrant experience that she move to Canada from Scotland
One particular connection between Susanna’s Moodie and Atwood’s Moodie is the use of language. Although the subject of language comes up in considerably different ways, language is still an important theme in both pieces of work. Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush is meant as a means by which to convey her animosity towards the land agents. These land agents convinced her, and many English people alike, to emigrate and give up life in England in favour of a life of supposed riches in Canada
Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction,” The American Historical Review Vol.108, no. 5(Dec, 1998): 1503-1516, accessed December 26, 2014, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2649966 Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (USA: Seal Books, 2000), . Mrs. Moodie (Susanna Moodie), Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (London: R.Bently, 1853), http://eco.canadiana.ca.libproxy.uwinnipeg.ca/view/oocihm.43989/3?r=0&s=1
create a subversive text which ‘writes back’ to both the journals of a Canadian literary ancestor, and to Canada’s nineteenth century self -image, illustrates what critic Linda Hutcheon has called ‘the use of irony as a powerful subversive rule in the rethinking and redressing of history by both the post-modern and post-colonial artist ‘(131). Atwood’s interest in the Mark’s case was first raised by her work on the journals of Susanna Moodie, a 19th-century emigrant to Canada. In a disparaging memoir
Imaginary Space In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale “One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one” Simone de Beauvoir. The female body is being constructed by the patriarchal system, which is under the control of the societal institutions like state, family, and economy where power operates in the form of culture, tradition, religion and so on. The societal construction of gender takes place through the workings of ideology. Ideology offers partial truths obscuring the actual conditions
the poet allows the reader to not only envision the characters in their physical forms, but feels their pain, celebrates their triumphs and journeys with them throughout their various dramatic experiences. Works Cited Atwood, Margeret. Journals of Susanna Moodie Macmillan of Canada, 1980. Johnson, Pauline. Flint and Feather McCelland and Stewart, 1972. Kennedy, Ronald. The Yeats Reader Dundurn, 1968. Landy, Alice, Martin, Dave. The Heath Introduction to Literature Canadian Edition, Heath and