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"Cat's Eye"


"Cat's Eye"
Discusses the theme of female aggression in Margaret Atwood's novel.
1,112 words (approx. 4.4 pages) | 1 source | MLA | 2002 United States


Paper Summary:

Today's culture provides males with a number of outlets for the aggression that all humans feel at times. But women, who are also sometimes frustrated and stressed, are allowed no similar culturally approved outlets for their aggression. Or at least they cannot take out their aggressions on the men who are often the cause of their frustrations. As a result, women again and again take out their aggressions on each other when they should be joining together, according to Margaret Atwood in her novel, "Cat's Eye." This paper examines the ways in which society, by suppressing women's natural feelings of aggression towards appropriate targets, causes women to turn their frustration on each other.

From the Paper:

"We would find Cordelia to be an even less sympathetic character than she is if Atwood did not emphasize the fact that she too is a victim: The misery that she inflicts on Elaine is simply misery that has been inflicted on her by her father and that she can dispose of in no other way. But before she can pass on her own unhappiness to Elaine, it has already fact that as an adult Cordelia (who is miserable as an adult) looks on Elaine as her only true friend from childhood."

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APA Citation:

"Cat's Eye" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Cat's-Eye/29871

MLA Citation:

""Cat's Eye"" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Cat's-Eye/29871>




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