ENGL 122AP Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Margaret Atwood, Baseball Cap, Optical Illusion
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The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion (cyborg. Many histories of hybrid life forms, since 1627. Alienating reader from a known/assumed world and imagining a different world. Thrown into different world without context, up until reader figures out his or her way around this world. Barricades suggest that the island used to need to protect themselves, failing/abandoned present protection. Atwood"s critique of a society that doesn"t think much. Allowing readers to see their own world from an alienated perspective. Toast (98), we know it in our own world, but the fact that it needs to be profusely explained is baffling to us. Create new vantage point in our own world in real life. Deleting things from the world as we know it. We have no right to judge others" cultures and societal constructs. Link to this time, in the united states. Resource stress, maybe they are out of real things.
