Margaret Atwood's February

Introduction

Internationally acclaimed as a poetess, novelist and short article author, Margaret Atwood has appeared as a foremost number in Canadian letters. Using such apparatus as irony, symbolism, and self-conscious narrators, she discovers the connection between humanity and environment, the dark edge of human demeanour, and power as it pertains to gender and politics.

Critical Reception

Criticism of Atwood's work has tended to focus her political and communal views. Many detractors recognise her use of grotesque, alarming imagery and hefty irony as hallmarks of her style. Because her verse and fiction often depict personal and psychological aggression in connections between men and ...