Atwood’s short story “Bluebeard’s Egg” Essay

Atwoods Bluebeards Egg is a narrative that supports the theme of sensing creation a human characteristic which only presents the truth the peculiar(a) person wants to believe. The first evidence of this appears in Sallys commentary of Edward, her keep up, who by her thoughts is a dumb blond that need her protection and watchword to survive. At set intervals an angel appears, bringing him food. Thats fine with Ed who hardly notices what he eats, but the angel is containting tired of being an angel (168, prgh1) We get this image of the caring wife protecting a not-so-intelligent husband out of love and pity.This is Sallys science of the truth. On the other raft we see her immaturity in her diction (heart-men regenerate their hearts, looked like a giant-fig) which shows her ignorance of her husbands line of manoeuver which is substantially difficult and requires intelligence and dedication that few people possess. This is wherefore the readers start to doubt Sallys truth and at this propose we side with the other some who say that he is intelligent and sluice brilliant, otherwise how can he be so successful? (151, sustain pgh) This first conflict that takes place in the readers themselves furthers the theme of the degree. Who can we religion and why?Sallys perception is the lense that we see the reputation through, but without it we wouldnt have a vision at all. So we have to take her reality and decide which truth we want to believe. Eds truth of a middle-age well-off physician with a beautiful, progeny wife who doesnt care much for anything except the nice figure of his life. Or Marylynns perception of a liberal, independent and confident fair sex who doesnt need a husband to enjoy her life. Or finally Sallys desperate attempt to h gaga on to her improve life married to a wealthy handsome but not-so-smart husband who provides a normal happy life for her.The point in the story where Sally catches her husband and her best friend crossing th at line of appropriateness, is when she realizes that her perception of what was real was actually all premature from the begging. This sudden crack in her perfect life threatens the very foundations of an her seemingly stable universe. Sally has been wrong about Ed, for years, forever. (182) This is a crucial moment in the story as it shows Sallys epiphany and provides a mysterious moment as to what she was going to do face her husband and her best friend, or try to tailor it in order to save her marriage, her security blanket. Sally puts down the spatula, wipes her hand on the hand-towel, puts her arms around him, holds on tighter that she should. (183, 3rd prgh) This is the image we get of Sally trying to hold on to her illusory reality.In a way the egg in the story is the truth that humans research but the truth is covered by the hard protective bawl out and only people who go beyond the surface and look for commute can get to the core to the truth which provides liberat ion. The structure of the story with the old Bluebeard tale in the middle of this new story reminds me of the egg which was at a time created and now has a life inside itself and allow create in its turn. Sally thinks the egg is alive, and one day it will hatch. But what will come out of it? (184, 1st prgh)This relates to Atwoods contemplating of the creative process. homogeneous in other poems by her, we see the birth of new concepts from the root of our very own creation. This also compares to the ways in which our engagement with a text, the act of reading literature, corresponds to reading reality. Atwoods story suggests that in both instances, guesswork or intuition is as fundamental as pie-eyed analysis. But whether our interpretation of the story is intuitive or analytical, the outcome is an double-dyed(a) quest after an illusory truth because nothing is what it seems.