Power is a fragile notion that can be easily used and abused. When societal power is absolute and dominant‚ it often leads to oppression and persecution of people. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale examines the dangerous impact of a governing body embracing complete power whilst substantiating as a warning to modern society‚ if people refuse to fight back dominant groups with strong ideologies‚ the outcome could be devastating. On the other hand Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery embodies societal
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Explore the ways Atwood presents the struggle for gender equality in the novel Written by Margaret Atwood The Handmaids Tale explores the reversal of women’s rights in a society called Gilead. It is founded on what is to be considered a return to traditional values‚ gender roles and the suppression of women by men‚ and the Bible is used as the guiding principle. Women are not only tripped from their right to vote‚ they are also denied the right to read and write‚ according to the new laws of Gilead
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Living in Gilead is unfortunate. However offred is the lucky one. She’s able to see what most people don’t see. She saw the truth about Gilead. She’s like the one who walked out of the cave in the allegory of the cave and saw the light. She’s also like Neo who disconnected from the matrix and saw the real world. Offred represent human’s will of freedom. However‚ if viewed from a different perspective. Offred is the unlucky one. She has to go through lots of things that ordinary people doesn’t need
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As a dystopian novel‚ The Handmaid’s Tale reflected a repressive society‚ through the first person point of view. Offred‚ the woman who brings the reader to her daily life in the Republic of Gilead‚ tells the story as it happens. She also leads the readers to her flashbacks‚ when Gilead did not exist‚ the times she still had a husband and daughter‚ when she was still free‚ not a property but a person. The title Offred‚ replaced her real name‚ demonstrate that she is a property of the Commander Fred
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The Gilead government took everything from the women in The Handmaid’s Tale: their possessions‚ their rights‚ their freedoms‚ even their identities. Moira gave her all to resist the regime‚ and although in the end she seems to have given up‚ her efforts were certainly heroic. Even back when things were normal‚ Moira was a rebellious spirit. Offred‚ the narrator‚ makes it clear that she is fiercely independent; a lesbian that certainly didn’t have any need for males in her life. It’s not clear exactly
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Totalitarianism: The Government of the Future? In both novels‚ 1984 by George Orwell and Handmaid’s Tale by Margret Atwood‚ the world in which the main characters live in is a totalitarian nation looking for utopia. Both main characters are presented as rebels against their governments but both worlds are very different. Winston Smith and Offred are looking for a way to beat their governments‚ and their rebellion leads them to similar situations. They both gain friends and information to help
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In the text‚ the Handmaid’s Tale‚ author Margaret Atwood uses unique feminist writing to satire 1980s female rights issues with a religious state that oppressed females. Examples of the mirrored realms in the instance of exaggeration of inactivity in pursuit of female rights‚ a nuanced comparison of between the patriarchal America of the 80’s and the government that ran Gilead. Atwood depicts subtle parallelisms between the time in which she lived in‚ and the misogynistic world seen in the country
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Trapped in the new society the narrator and the other women are forbidden from using their real names or in other words‚ they were restricted to have an identity. Despite these restrictions‚ the women found ways to keep their identities alive. By rebelling against the rules‚ even in the slightest manor‚ it allowed them to experience freedom in their oppressed society. This passage describes the role women play in society. It exemplifies that women are simply seen as objects that are classified by
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XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX ENGL 252-01 28 November 2012 Thoughts on Feminism and Dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale The Annotated Bibliography Dopp‚ Jamie. "Subject-Position as Victim-Position in The Handmaid’s Tale." Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne [Online]‚ 19.1 (1994): n. page. Web. 27 Nov. 2012 Dopp believes that Dopp believes that the goal of The Handmaid’s Tale is to work against the oppression of women‚ While he feels that is actually does the
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Since the wave of Feminism in Canada‚ Feminism has been written into the literature by Canadian authors. They believe securing women’s rights would enhance the recognition of women’s value in society‚ which can lead to the moral and social improvement of all humanity. Secret daughter introduces a weak female character Kavita‚ who is prohibited from keeping her child in a distorted society. The handmaid’s Tale reveals a new career called handmaid in the future society‚ whose mission is to have children
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