we tend to focus on. Culture affects growing up‚ race‚ gender‚ class‚ family and language. Canadian Culture and Identity What does Canada mean to you? Hockey. Maple syrup. Tim Horton’s. 4 seasons Groups of 7 Snow. Margaret Atwood Understand your culture is important in understanding other cultures. Canada is a multicultural country. Literature is used to define a culture. It is easier to explain what we are not than what we are. Hard to define a culture
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Grace. Doctor Jordan was a specialist in mental illnesses and is granted permission to handle Grace’s case. Through attempting to figure out whether Grace is innocent or not‚ Doctor Jordan begins to cast his sexual desires onto Grace Marks. Margret Atwood exploits an interesting side with the lives of people that are close to Grace‚ including Doctor Jordan. The story revolves around the meetings that Grace and Doctor Jordan have at the governor’s house where she works as a trustee. During the time
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Atwood combines the use of literary techniques and form in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale to effectively display two main thematic concerns - rebellion and the place of an individual. Offred’s first evening with the Commander is one in which these two thematic concerns are exceptionally prevalent. Control‚ and the need to subjugate individuals is at the heart of dystopian literature and one of the primary effects of constant oppression is the inevitability of rebellion. Gileadean society runs on a
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OPHELIA TALKS BACK Based on Margaret Atwood’s ‘Gertrude Talks Back’ Why yes I do believe I am fair‚ and I don’t need you to confirm it. Honey you were never invited to my wedding. God has given me one face‚ and I can do whatever the hell I please with it‚ thank you very much. Frankly you could do with a little heavy foundation and a wig yourself; it might just conceal the premature balding and all the frown lines you’ve accumulated from moping. You looked like a tired old man some days. It
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Past and present‚ Offred’s peers play a huge role in how she narrates The Handmaid’s Tale. In the last few chapters of this reading‚ Offred encounters her old friend‚ Moira‚ who is now working as a prostitute at a secret club. In the times before biblical religion was the only form of governance‚ Moira was described as a fiery and rebellious woman‚ who was always there for Offred. While in the center‚ she teaches Offred how to care for the other women and keep her wits about her during this horrific
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One of the main ideas in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood‚ is relationships and their importance as there is lack of intimacy and human contact which are both controlled and prohibited in Gilead. We can see that in this totalitarian society‚ all relationships are controlled strictly and monitored and there are boundaries which you must not cross. In this society‚ even sex is controlled. As a handmaid‚ you are obliged to have sex with your Commander at fixed times and this
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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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The difference between man and animal is a line that is made up exclusively by humans: they are the ones who decide what is animalistic and what is humankind. Humans also create novels and how they depict themselves and animals in them tells plenty about how humans in general feel about the subjects they’re writing about. For example‚ novels can use an animal as an image of corruption‚ another as an an image of innocence‚ and still one more as an image of wisdom all in the same chapter. Animals in
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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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Oryx and Crake- Essay Assignment Women play many roles in life: from mother to leader‚ from caretaker to evildoer. It is easy to see that the world could not development without women. In a similar fashion‚ women in literature also play important roles. The roles which women play can always push the plot forward. It is obvious to see how important women’s roles are‚ how the roles influence this story and how those roles make readers think deeply in the most literature. In Oryx and Crake‚
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