How Does Margaret Atwood Portray Love

In A Womens Issue, Orpheus (1 and Orpheus (2), Margaret Atwood exposes what retire can be and what it can do. Ultimately, Atwood presents sock as an evil disguise which brings ab step up adversity and non happiness. In A Womens Issue, Atwood shows different scenarios of women in unfavorable circumstances. first off there is, The char In the spiked crook/ that locks around the cannon and between/ the legs, with holes In It Like a tea strainer (Atwood 1-3). This chastity doojigger was probably created to protect the womans flagrantly out of love.However, the love of the woman, or possibly the love of virtuous women resulted in he creation of a device that must be insufferable (and unhealthy) to wear. Second there is a woman with, A four-inch/ wooden nail down jammed up/ between her legs so she cant be assault (6-8). In this instance, Atwood presents a barbaric and ironic world. The numbers makes it seem as though the woman will get raped the moment she takes out the woode n peg which is very savage. It Is also wry that the woman who does not want to be raped has a peg localised Inside herself.Affection is absent, and as the examples plow in the poem, this idea progresses. depict C he modern girl dragged into the bush by midwives and make to sing while they scrape the flesh from between her legs, then sop up her thighs till she scabs over and Is wish healed. Now she can be get married Men like tight women (10-18) In the previous case, a young girl is forced to have her privates changed so that she is pleasing to the reverse sex because they believe men love tight women.The midwives probably esteem they are showing love to the young girl because they are do her more desirable and fit for marriage, however, this love results In pain and f the poem Atwood poses an interesting question Who invented the word love? (39). With this last statement, Atwood challenges the fancy that love is affection for a person and expressed through passion. She describes the place between a womans leg as, Enemy territory, no mans/ land, to be entered on the sly/ fenced, owned scarcely never surely (30-32), and men only have skittish power (37).In this poem, passion does not rightfully exist and love is a guise under which humans can be inhumane. In Orpheus 1, love acts as a cover for egotismtistical need. The poem is told form the various(prenominal) of Eurydice, Orpheus wife who was bitten by a viper and died shortly after they were married. Orpheus travels to the underworld, and using his overpowering singing voice, renders Hades powerless. He then leads his wife out of the underworld, but not before he is given the simple condition to not look cover charge at Eurydice until they are out of the underworld.Orpheus is very exacting and never considers what Eurydice may have chosen to do. The poems begins, muff walk in front of me, pulling me back out/ to the green light that had one time/ grown fangs and killed me (1-4). The wor d pulling implies that Eurydice does not want to go back to the world of the living. Eurydice is also fearful of the world because of the viper that killed her, yet Orpheus is only sentiment about his self-satisfaction which he calls love. The poem continues, l was obedient, but/ He return/ to time was not my choice (5-8). Unfortunately, Orpheus is blinded by his ego disguised as love and does not consider whether or not Eurydice want to go with him. Furthermore, it is stated, Mimi had your old leash/ with you, love you might call it (14-15). Clearly, love is to affection, but a means of control. This overbearing control disguised as love resulted in unhappiness. Orpheus looked backed too soon, before Eurydice was out of the cave and thus she, Had to/ fold like a gray moth and let go (36-37).Orpheus 2 further shows the negative effects that Orpheus ego-love had. After losing love, which is power to Orpheus, he tries to bring it back, but to no avail. He has been trying to sing/ l ove into existence again/ and he has failed (13-15). He goes on singing, among the gray stones/ of the shoring up where nobody goes/ through fear. Those with silence (10-12), however, the others so not want him to continue to sing. They have cut off both his hands They will tear/ his inquiry from his body in one burst/ of furious refusal. He foresees this, nonetheless he will go on (23-27). Ultimately, Orpheus suffers because of his misinterpretation of love. He no longer has the love of Eurydice. He cannot please with his singing any longer. He fails to bring true love and affection back into existence. Ultimately, he suffers a cruel death. In these poems by Margaret Atwood, romantic and affectionate love does not exist. Love is absent and unkind when present. It hurts and takes and leaves pain in its wake.It is like a trench coat, concealing a deadly weapon. Instead of the warm feelings of dread and passion, Atwood presents what love really is most of the time a cover for an unappealing trait an excuse for unthinkable actions. Simply, love is a deliverer of pain. Who really did invent the word love? Perhaps he was a nefarious deceiver, outwitting the world to his own advantage hiding treachery behind a brilliant smile. Cared about. The word must have been untainted then, still desolate not yet evil.