Rape Fantasies

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Rape Fantasies

• Curtis 587012050
• Sally 586202051
• Claire 587202644
• -Margaret Atwood won 2000 National Booker Prize
  by writing (The Blind Assassin) ????

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1 Literary Style2 Characters3 Analysis4
Reference Books
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Literary Style-Curtis

• 1. Dramatic Monologue
•  2. Setting
• -Time
• -Locale
• -Point of View
• 3. Summary

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1. Dramatic Monologue

• A poem in which a single speaker who is not the
  poet utters the entire poem at a critical moment.
  The speaker has a listener within the poem, but
  we too are his/her listener, and we learn about
  the speaker's character from what the speaker
  says. In fact, the speaker may reveal
  unintentionally certain aspects of his/her
  character.

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2. Setting

• 1.timeFriday night
• -before yesterday.(p.383)
• 2.locale a bar in Toronto
• -its only Toronto (p.384)
• -the waiters all know me. (p.389)
• 3.point of view first person(narrator)
• Characters 6 characters (including the silent
  listener)
• -Estelle spoke, its different for a
  guy.(p.387)
• -you Estelles listener
• what magazine you open,(p.383)
• I hope you dont mind me holding (p.387)

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3.Summary

• At a bar in Friday night, there are 8
  rape fantasies presents in the short fiction
  which are told by Estelle to a stranger who
  intends to rape her. Also, Estelle talks about
  not only her personal rape fantasies, but also
  her friends.

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Characters-Sally

• 1.Narrator Estelle
• 2.You a guy who tries to pick Estelle up in a
  bar
• 3.Co-workers Chrissy
• Sondra
• Darlene
• Greta

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Personality-1

• Estelle is curious about other people. Paragraph
  9 Shes the oldest, shes forty-one though you
  would not know it and neither does she, but I
  looked it up in the employees file. Paragraph
  12 Shes divorce, I read that in the file too,
  she never talks about it. It must been years ago
  anyway.

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Personality-2

• Estelle is far away from home. She is lonely.
  She needs friends very much. She is very kind to
  all of her fancied rapist. Such as in paragraph
  26 and I say to him, Youre intending to rape
  me, right? and he nods, so I open my purse to
  get the plastic lemon, and I cant find it! My
  purse is full of all this junk, Kleenex and
  cigarettes and my change purse and my lipstick
  and my drivers license, you know the kind of
  stuff so I ask him to hold out his hands, like
  this, and I pile all this junk into them and down
  at the bottom theres the plastic lemon, and I
  cant get the top off. So I hand it to him and
  hes very obliging, he twists the top off and
  hands it back to me, and I squirt him in the
  eyes.

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Personality-3

• Estelle is outraged about men who raped women
  they knew. Paragraph 41 But maybe its
  different for a guy. Last paragraph How could
  a fellow do that to a person hes just had a long
  conversation with, once you let them know youre
  human, you have a life too, I dont see how they
  could go ahead with it, right? I mean, I know it
  happens but I just dont understand it, thats
  the part I really dont understand.

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Personality-4

• Estelle thinks that men have more freedom to
  meet people. Paragraph 35 Im telling you, I was
  really lonely when I first came here I thought
  it was going to be such a big adventure and all,
  but its a lot harder to meet people in a city.
  But I guess its different for a guy.

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Personality-5

• Paragraph 5 Rape fantasies, Chrissy said.
• For Chrissake, Im eating an egg sandwich,
  I said, and I bid one club and Darlene passed.
  
• Estelle is not interested in the topic.
  She seems not popular in the group for her jokes
  dose not make the others laugh. Paragraph 23
  Anyway you might get bubbles up your nose, I
  said, from the deep breathing, and I swear all
  four of them looked at me like I was in bad
  taste.
•   Estelle doest not think that going out at
  night is such a bad idea. Check the settings in
  her fantasies, but Darlene doesnt think so.
  Paragraph 9 I dont think you should go out
  alone at night, Darlene said, you put yourself
  in a position,

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Personality-6

• I think that there are two reasons that Estelle
  keeps a long conversation with a stranger at the
  bar. First, she wants to make friends with him.
  Secondly, she hopes that the man will not rape
  her.

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Personality-7

• Chrissy arouses the topic. She seems
  interested in it and her fancy is very romantic.
  Her thoughts probably are effected by magazines,
  Hollywood movies and TV dramas. Paragraph 5
  Rape fantasies, Chrissy said. Shes a
  receptionist and she looks like one shes pretty
  but cool as a cucumber, like shes been painted
  all over with nail polish, if you know what I
  mean. Varnished. It says here all women have
  rape fantasies. Paragraph 11 Well, do you?
  Chrissy said. She was obviously trying to tell
  us about hers abut she wasnt about to go first,
  shes cautious, that one.

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Personality-8

• Sondra seems not clever. She didnt know how to
  cooperate with her bridge partner. Paragraph 7
  You mean like some guy jumping you in an alley
  or something, Sondra said. She was eating her
  lunch, we all eat our lunches during the game,
  and she bit into a piece of that celery she
  always brings and started to chew away on it with
  this thoughtful expression in her eyes.
  Paragraph 25 Sondra was miffed too, by this
  time shed finished her celery and she wanted to
  tell about hers, but she hadnt got in fast
  enough. Paragraph 31 Sondra never did get a
  chance to tell about her rape fantasy.

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Personality-9

• Darlene is forty-one years old. She is
  divorced, but she never talks about it. She does
  not think a girl should go out alone at night and
  rape fancy is good. She protects herself
  strongly. Paragraph 21 Dont you scream or
  anything? said Darlene. Shed come back with
  her cup of coffee, she was getting really
  interested. Id scream like bloody murder.

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Personality-10

• Greta must have experienced something really
  terrible in Detroit. She seems quite rational
  and logical. See paragraph 13.

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Analysis-Claire

• 1. Eight Fantasies
• Gretas
• Chrissys
• Estelles (6 fantasies)
• 2. Difference and Similarity Between Estelles
  Fantasies And Her Friends

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1. Eight Fantasies

• 1. Gretas Fantasy(p.384)
• -Just likeTarzan.
• 2. Chrissys Fantasy(p.385)
• -bathtub,bubbles
• 3. Estelles Fantasies(6 fantasies)
• 1) plastic lemon(p.385)
• 2) Mr. Clean(p.386)
• 3) dermatologist(p.386)
• 4)St. Anne(p.387)
• 5) a Kung-Fu expert(p.388)
• 6) leukemia(p.388)

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2. Difference and Similarity Between Estelles
Fantasies and Her Friends
Estelles Fantasies Greta and Chrissys Fantasies Darlenes response
Difference Reality Romance Reality
Similarity Desire for Friendship -lonely (p.387) -kinship (victim and criminal) Desire for Love (p.385) Desire for Safety -womens attitudes(p.384)
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4. Reference Book

• Atwood, Margaret.Rape Fantasies,in Barnet,
  Sylvan. Morton, Berman. Burto, William. ed. An
  Introduction to Literature (11th edi.). Harper
  Collins, 1997334-341.
• Atwood, Margaret. Good Bones and Simple Murders.
  Toronto Coach House Press, 1992.
• Derrida, Jacques.Structure, Sign, and Play in
  the Discourse of Human Sciences.In Macksey and
  Donato (1970) 247-65.
• Friedman, Thomas B. Hengen, Shannon. ed.
  Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's
  Tale and Other Works. New York The Modern
  Language Association of America, 1996.
• Hengen, Shannon. Margaret Atwood's Power.
  Toronto, ON Second Story Press,1993.
• Howell, Coral Ann. Modern Novelists Margaret
  Atwood. New York St. Martin's Press, 1996.
• Keith, W. J. Canadian Literature in English.
  London, New York Longman, 1985.
• McCombs, Judith. Critical Essays on Margaret
  Atwood. Boston, Mass. G. K. Hall Co., 1988.
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