Emulate The Style

Things to consider about author's style

First person point of view and common literary devices

Margaret Atwood's novels are mostly first person tales doused in reflective and imaginative speech. As the reader would blitz through the pages, they could feel where the character is, how the character feels from the environment and of their life, etc. That is due to her commonality of using imagery to keep people dreaming. The first person point of view also provides a personal feel, as the characters speak, you feel like you're genuinely there for the ride.

Her most written genre

Atwood dives deep into the concept of feminism in almost every single one of her books. Her works critique what is wrong with our current society and point out its flaws in order to get a rise out of the reader. Her stories have impacted many to say the least. Not only does she write about feminist ideas, she also combines the struggles of living in a dystopian world by making her novels a dystopian setting and threat. These conflicts provide how the character’s doing mentally, with inter monologues flooding the page from their struggles.

Now onto the emulation!

I take it all in. As the scent of my friend's blood sharpens the air with an iron knife, the sounds of terror on the crossroads as these riots for freedom escalate, and as I stand here shell shocked, standing here like that broken streetlight having nothing to do with this conflict, The fear of my survivor's guilt coming back if I don't do anything right here and now, I take it all in with the news drones flying overhead. Way after the youth of the new artificial system, I stood there just like now as my scientific expert colleagues run around like chickens with their heads dismantled. "What can we do! Somebody lead! We need guidance!" Nobody did, and I was determined to reflect what many sociologists, or psychologists? Would have shown this as an example for their slideshows for conflict avoidance. I sometimes wonder whether if it didn't realize the true embodiment of being human, would we have still got to this point anyway? Would my lesser reproductive parts prove me the same as I am now to society? The smell of the intelligence welding itself into a vessel and its daring actions. The smell of my friend bleeding out. I need to move out of the way.

"Get on the ground immediately." These hunks of metal come easy, the intelligence even after all this time hasn't fully implemented the concept of being human into their drives. But they sure do know how to make rough terrain. Birds. Those perfect beings of aviation, can be blind to this ironically artificial terrain as long as they're up there. I want to be as free as those birds. "Ma'am, on the ground." It'd be easier being one of them than one of me. Besides the uncommon mishap of a drone flying into one of them from time to time, there really is no other thing I want to be. I wonder what my mother's doing right now. Could she also be neutralizing these threats in Old York? "Overriding permissions." I don't think the intelligence's grasp had reached there yet, our newer cities are what's in mind. "Firing."

How my emulation is like Margaret Atwood's writing

For this emulation writing, I was inspired by the dystopian feel of Atwood's many novels. I thought about the geopolitical landscape of today, and landed on A.I as the enemy. A lot of people are familiar with A.I, and so it makes for easy storytelling without having to explain the plot of the story in such a refined detail. You just have to have prior knowledge of what people think about A.I. Atwood takes our politics and smooshes them into the foundation of her story. I also emphasized feminist ideas like how many of Atwood’s books are themed off of. The next step I took was formatting the story into a first person narrative. The nameless main character is in a world where robots have taken over, the perspective is exclusively what she is thinking. There are moments in this short story where there is dialogue from the dangerous A.I’s, the dialog opposes how the narrative is written like how the enemies oppose our main character.

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