Alias Grace is a 1996 work of historical fiction by Margaret Atwood based on the 1843 murders of Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear in Canada, for which servants James McDermott and Grace Marks were convicted (McDermott executed, Marks sentenced to life in prison). The novel follows Simon Jordan, a doctor who becomes interested in the case and attempts to understand how subdued Marks could have committed such a murder. The story is told from multiple points of view, employing a narration that mixes internal and external dialogue.
Alias Grace In Alias Grace Margaret Atwood explores the story of Grace Marks More importantly she tells the story of each character in Graces life By mixing different point of views of Grace Marks and Simon Jordan Atwood achieves a complex novel that explores a moment of history in a unique way Nevertheless Atwood captures the way women were treated at the time Also Atwood grasps the way men were portrayed She explores both genders through their emotions and intelligence But one gender of cours
Each of the characters in Alias Grace plays such an important part that they have the ability to change the whole outcome of the novel These male characters have shaped Grace into the character that she is and had a huge impact on her life and her personality There are three milestones in Graces life that define her life and personality The death of her mother which results in Grace having to grow up at a young age and being forced my Mr Marks her father to get a job Another would be the moving
Margaret Atwoods novel Alias Grace takes us back to 1848 to revisit the story of the most notorious woman of the nineteenth century Grace Marks a pretty sixteen year old servant girl Marks is accused of murdering her employer Thomas Kinnear and his alleged mistress Nancy Montgomery with the help of a fellow servant James McDermott Both Marks and McDermott were captured a couple of days later in the United States and brought back to Toronto where they were charged and found guilty of premeditate
Let us further suppose that our writer is Canadian and that they wish to set their drama or poem in Canada Lets now throw caution to the winds and imagine they want to use real historical material Now they have problems These problems are connected with the pattern of Canadian history and the related and even resultant patterns of the Canadian psyche That is their subject will depend on what kinds of figures are made available to them by their countrys history and their approach to their subjec
Grace Marks in Margaret Atwoods Alias Grace is a young woman accused of murdering her master and his mistress and is based on a true case Grace Marks is a complex woman as most of her personal traits are distorted because they are recorded by unreliable sources These sources are mainly found in the media such as newspapers that tend to include inaccurate information rather than facts Although the novel seems to be about the question of whether or not Grace Marks was guilty or innocent it is tru