Tag Archives: Margaret Atwood

Trump, a Kane-Type Narcissist

By Robin Bates | Published: June 18, 2018

Citzen Kane, Trump’s favorite film, brilliantly captures a narcissist. Margaret Atwood and Sylvia Plath also have things to say about narcissism.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Daddy", Circe Mud Poems, Citizen Kane, Donald Trump, narcissism, Orson Welles, Sylvia Plath | Comments closed

Atwood: Flawed Activist, Genius Author

By Robin Bates | Published: March 9, 2018

Margaret Atwood is not the best spokesperson for feminism because activists and authors necessarily have different agendas.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, Edible Woman, Handmaid's Tale, Lady Oracle, Robber Bride, Surfacing | Comments closed

Atwood’s Jezebels at the Presidents Club

By Robin Bates | Published: January 30, 2018

The Presidents Club scandal bears much resemblance to “the Club” in “Handmaid’s Tale” to which the Commander takes Offred.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Donald Trump, Handmaid's Tale, MeToo, Presidents Club Charitable Trust | Comments closed

How Atwood Rescued This Single Mom

By Robin Bates | Published: January 22, 2018

In an inspiring story, single mom Ashley found Atwood’s novels helped her turn her life around.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Edible Woman, Feminism, low self esteem, Robber Bride, self-empowerment, Surfacing | Comments closed

Atwood and the Aziz Ansari Affair

By Robin Bates | Published: January 17, 2018

Margaret Atwood is under fire for her cautions about #MeToo movement. Her novels are useful, however, in the Aziz Ansari affair.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Hustand", Alias Grace, Aziz Ansari, bad date, Cat's Eye, Handmaid's Tale, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, sexual assault | Comments closed

Atwood’s Novels in the News

By Robin Bates | Published: December 13, 2017

Atwood’s unsettling predictions registered two hits this past week: a GOP Congressman pressuring assistants to be surrogate mothers and recent reports of pigs engineered to carry human organs.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged gene splicing, genetic engineering, Handmaid's Tale, organ transplants, Oryx and Crake, pigoons, Trent Franks, Year of the Flood | Comments closed

Nature Lit Has Healed for Centuries

By Robin Bates | Published: December 5, 2017

For years my Intro to Lit class has had a nature theme.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bacchae, Barbara Kingsolver, climate change, environmental issues, Euripides, Flight Behavior, John Keats, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lord Byron, Lucille Clifton, Mary Oliver, Midsummer Night's Dream, nature poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wendell Berry, William Blake, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Year of the Flood | Comments closed

Margaret Atwood’s Green Christians

By Robin Bates | Published: December 3, 2017

Margaret Atwood imagines a cult of green Christians in “Year of the Flood.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged climate change, Dystopias, environmental issues, Green Christianity, Year of the Flood | Comments closed

Atwood’s Year of the Flood–Our Future?

By Robin Bates | Published: October 19, 2017

Atwood lays out the social devastation that can arise from extreme climate events in “Year of the Flood.” Some of her predictions are starting to come true.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Donald Trump, dystopian literature, Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Years of the Flood | Comments closed