Chapter 7 1) How does the scene with Moira in the past contrast to the narrator’s present existence? Offred’s flashback to her time student times with Moira highlights a direct comparison to the amount of freedom she had. Not only under others but also in time as well as having the choice of many options including clothes and behavior. It is also clear that both Offred and Moira had not a care in the world‚ there was no worries about being caught with a cigarette or not doing their work. Whereas
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There will always will be a power or a government with a society. Whether it be as small as a group or as large as a country. According to multiple sources‚ government has been around since the first city-state was created. Just by this source alone we demonstrate how society has always needed an order and power: Government. Dystopian: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Lord of the Flies‚ a novel that is realistic
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historical notes dictate a change of times. P. Madhurima Reddy. "Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: “The Carving Out of Feminsit Space.” 2.4(2011) 1-9 The Criterion : an International Journal in English Web. 16 November 2012 Reddy notes that Atwood allows the protagonist to be flawed as any other person would be. He believes that the woman are expected to be better than men‚ yet are treated inferiorly. The women in the story are to have no emotion‚ no physical contact and no relationships. Moral
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Assassin by Margaret Atwood and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen are novels written by female authors in different time periods each containing the universal theme of feminism. Feminism is the belief that men and women should be treated equally and allowed the same rights and opportunities. Atwood uses the theme of feminism to a lesser extent whereas Austen does the opposite in conveying the female characters as independent human beings. In her novel The Blind Assassin‚ Margaret Atwood purposefully portrays
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as Gilead. The entire society lives in a type of slavery forced upon them by their countries new government. "It was after the catastrophe‚ when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency." (Atwood 174) Both men and women were confined to stringent‚ nonsensical rules designed to make‚ what they considered‚ a better life. Although there were not many options for living a different life‚ there was some choice in live they way they lived. Women
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English 102 Of Innocence Lost Innocence is a quality that is often taken for granted and abused. In the following three stories‚ Margaret Atwood’s “Stone Mattress”‚ Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and John Updike’s“A&P”‚ the three main protagonists deal with a common theme- that of innocence lost and the consequences of your decisions. Innocence is one of the few things that can be lost by making one simple decision. Unfortunately‚ it is also one of the seldom found things that one
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contradictory information that has not been proven factual. In The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Offred acknowledges that “we [the handmaids] lived‚ as usual‚ by ignoring” for that anything that goes against what the commander says or wants should be ignored (Atwood 56). Along with ignorance‚ Offred was ordered that if information a commander has given to the community has evidently been proven false then the people within that community must come to the realization that their commander’s work “isn’t easy for
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and Journey to the Interior by Margaret Atwood portray the concept of journeys to a great extent. These poems will show a whole other perspective of a literal inner and imaginative journey and a metaphorical physical journey. In the poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ Robert Frost provides a look at the choices one has in life‚ how one comes to decide which choices are better‚ and what the consequences of these choices are. In “Journey to the Interior”‚ Margaret Atwood uses the physical terrain of the Canadian
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Zachary Prisciak Mr. McGilly ENG 4U1 Friday October 5‚ 2012 The Distinction of Classes and Marxism in The Handmaids Tale Marxism‚ in broad terms‚ is a theory of social change based on sympathy for the working class. The Marxist literary theory involves looking at a class struggle (working vs. ruling). In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale a class struggle is seen between the ruling class and everyone else in the Republic of Gilead. This text can be analyzed through the lens of
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Introduction As Margaret Atwood herself put it best‚ “not real can tell us about real.” Oryx and Crake is a dystopian novel‚ which plays on the fear of human extinction by the hands of humans themselves. As implausible as it may seem‚ certain technologies and social developments presented in the novel are not entirely farfetched. This essay will discuss the real life analogue of Atwood’s “perfect” modified human race‚ and how technological advances in our current world can possibly lead to our
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