Theme and Irony
“Death by Landscape”
Theme by antithesis
Theme statement is NOT:
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A MORAL
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GRUNT THEME
SPECIFIC DETAILS
Big ideas:
 The indeterminate ending…sometimes there are no answers
 Humans desire logic and answers and closure
 Identity is impacted by past experiences
 Fabrications can become the reality of a character
Theme statement
-what truth about the human condition is Atwood exploring? …an illumination
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Irony in “Death by Landscape”
-Atwood is famous for her ironic detachment
-find as many examples as you can in the text where Atwood detaches herself from the
text and comments on her characters or the conventions of the plot.
 Instances where Atwood interrupts the story to make her own commentary
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