compare the ways in which the writers of your chosen text present characters who challenge accepted boundaries

thesis

• Both Atwood and Shelley utilise characters who challenge as accepted boundaries to expose the flaws of of society

• Atwood, influenced 20th century socio political anxieties, highlights the dangers of religious authority, morality and active agent

• While Shelley, influenced by the enlightenment period, highlights the dangerous of scientific authority, morality and the passive agent

• Perhaps the both authors aim to critique control and oppression

both = characters who challenge accepted boundaries expose flaws in authority

HMT = religious authority

Frank = scientific authority

AO1

• HMT

• Frank

AO2

• HMT

• Frank

AO3

• HMT

• Frank

AO4

HMT AO3

Frank AO3

both = characters who challenge accepted boundaries expose flaws in morality

HMT = religious morality

Frank = scientific and natural morality

AO1

• HMT

• Frank

AO2

• HMT

• Frank

AO3

• HMT

• Frank

AO4

HMT AO3

Frank AO3

both = characters who challenge accepted boundaries expose flaws in agency

HMT = active agent

Frank = passive agent

AO1

• HMT

• Frank

AO2

• HMT

• Frank

AO3

• HMT

• Frank

AO4

HMT AO3

Frank AO3