Rape Fantasies Curtis 587012050 Sally 586202051 Claire 587202644

Rape Fantasies Curtis 587012050 Sally 586202051 Claire 587202644 -Margaret Atwood won 2000 National Booker Prize by writing （The Blind Assassin） 《盲眼刺客》

1 Literary Style 2 Characters 3 Analysis 4 Reference Books

Literary Style-Curtis ¨ 1. Dramatic Monologue ¨ 2. Setting -Time -Locale -Point of View 3. Summary

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.

2. Setting 1. time: Friday night -before yesterday…. (p. 383) 2. locale: a bar in Toronto -it’s 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, “it’s different for a guy. ”(p. 387) -“you”= Estelle’s listener “what magazine you open, …”(p. 383) “I hope you don’t mind me holding …” (p. 387)

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’.

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

Personality-1 ¨ Estelle is curious about other people. Paragraph 9: She’s the oldest, she’s forty-one though you would not know it and neither does she, but I looked it up in the employee’s file. Paragraph 12: She’s divorce, I read that in the file too, she never talks about it. It must been years ago anyway.

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, “You’re intending to rape me, right? ” and he nods, so I open my purse to get the plastic lemon, and I can’t find it! My purse is full of all this junk, Kleenex and cigarettes and my change purse and my lipstick and my driver’s 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 there’s the plastic lemon, and I can’t get the top off. So I hand it to him and he’s very obliging, he twists the top off and hands it back to me, and I squirt him in the eyes. ”

Personality-3 ¨ Estelle is outraged about men who raped women they knew. Paragraph 41: But maybe it’s different for a guy. Last paragraph: How could a fellow do that to a person he’s just had a long conversation with, once you let them know you’re human, you have a life too, I don’t see how they could go ahead with it, right? I mean, I know it happens but I just don’t understand it, that’s the part I really don’t understand.

Personality-4 ¨ Estelle thinks that men have more freedom to meet people. Paragraph 35: I’m 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 it’s a lot harder to meet people in a city. But I guess it’s different for a guy.

Personality-5 ¨ Paragraph 5: “Rape fantasies, ” Chrissy said. ¨ “For Chrissake, I’m 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 doesn’t think so. Paragraph 9: “I don’t think you should go out alone at night, ” Darlene said, ” you put yourself in a position, ”

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.

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. She’s a receptionist and she looks like one; she’s pretty but cool as a cucumber, like she’s 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 wasn’t about to go first, she’s cautious, that one.

Personality-8 ¨ Sondra seems not clever. She didn’t 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 she’d finished her celery and she wanted to tell about hers, but she hadn’t got in fast enough. Paragraph 31: Sondra never did get a chance to tell about her rape fantasy.

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: “Don’t you scream or anything? ” said Darlene. She’d come back with her cup of coffee, she was getting really interested. “ I’d scream like bloody murder. ”

Personality-10 ¨ Greta must have experienced something really terrible in Detroit. She seems quite rational and logical. See paragraph 13.

Analysis-Claire ¨ 1. Eight Fantasies – Greta’s – Chrissy’s – Estelle’s (6 fantasies) ¨ 2. Difference and Similarity Between Estelle’s Fantasies And Her Friends’

1. Eight Fantasies 1. Greta’s Fantasy(p. 384) -”Just like. Tarzan. ” 2. Chrissy’s Fantasy(p. 385) -”bathtub”, ”bubbles” 3. Estelle’s 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)

2. Difference and Similarity Between Estelle’s Fantasies and Her Friends’ Estelle’s Fantasies Greta and Darlene’s Chrissy’s response Fantasies Difference Reality Romance Similarity Desire for Love Friendship -lonely (p. 387) (p. 385) -kinship (victim and criminal) Reality Desire for Safety -women’s attitudes(p. 384)

4. Reference Book ¨ Atwood, Margaret. “Rape Fantasies, ”in Barnet, Sylvan. Morton, ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ Berman. & Burto, William. ed. An Introduction to Literature (11 th edi. ). Harper Collins, 1997: 334 -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. Mc. Combs, Judith. Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall & Co. , 1988. 謝瑤玲東吳大學英文系副教授, 『瑪格麗特‧艾伍德之〈強暴幻想〉 與〈女體〉的教學意含』

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