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The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin symbolizes the impossibility of objective truth. With the same title as Atwood’s novel, The Blind Assassin is a book within the story that’s posthumously published under Laura Chase’s name, which the…
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Sakiel-Norn
Sakiel-Norn, the fictional alien city on the planet Zycron in the science-fiction story that the man in The Blind Assassin tells his female lover, symbolizes the horrors and violence inherent to human society. Sakiel-Norn is…
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Avilion
Avilion, the large, austere house in which Iris and Laura Chase are raised, symbolizes the rigid social expectations placed on them as children of a wealthy manufacturer. It also represents the estrangement and trauma of…
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