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    Question: Analyse how Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale imaginatively portrays individuals who challenge the established values of their time. Texts are not created in isolation. They are reflective of the values‚ attitudes and beliefs present in their compositional milieu. Margaret Atwood’s critically acclaimed novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) narrates the story of Offred‚ a woman who is forced to become a Handmaid and bear children for elite couples that have problems conceiving. The character

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    on today’s society as seen through Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. In today’s society‚ the one thing most stressed about is one’s outer appearance. It doesn’t matter how smart one is or how talented you are‚ if you have beauty then you have the world. Margaret Atwood‚ author of Oryx and Crake‚ focuses her novel around a society where most companies promote a better outer appearance for people. People would spend every spare dollar to get wrinkle free skin‚ so that they can be young looking old people.

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    Red Gown and the Name “Of‚” Would Never Happen Today Life could change in a blink of an eye. The everyday things you have grown accustomed to gone in a flash. As a woman in the story‚ A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood‚ women are discriminated against. The U.S. Government gets taken over and corruption occurs. Men are considered a dominant race and women are treated like sex slaves and baby makers. All of the luxuries of money‚ jobs‚ clothing‚ and freedom that women had were thrown away in an

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    possessions of men‚ with no legal status of their own‚ to being considered legal citizens in their own right. As far as the political background is concerned‚ it is worth saying a few words about Margaret Thatcher. Following the defeat of the Conservatives in 1974 election‚ Margaret Hilda Thatcher was elected as the new leader. She wentaon to lead the Conservatives toathe victory in the election of 1979 andathe party remained in power until 1997. Christopher states that‚ “She was developing

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    While reading the poem ’This is a Photograph of Me’ by Margaret Atwood‚ it is shown that while growing up she was blurred‚ unimportant and she was never heard. The writer talks about a picture that was taken a long time ago. We don’t know many details about the picture‚ not even simple things such as whom it is about‚ but we get the sense that the author is talking about themself being in the picture. It is proven that the speaker has written about themself when Atwood states‚ “…If you look long

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    THE HANDMAID’S TALE Grade 11 English Analytical Essay Words: 1 245 Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a disturbing novel that displays the presence and manipulation of power. This is displayed throughout the novel and is represented significantly in three ways. As the book takes place in the republic of Gilead‚ the elite in society are placed above every other individual who are not included in their level. Secondly‚ men are placed at the top of the chain and they significantly overpower

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    Journeys Essay We learn from the journeys we take‚ through experience‚ not from the destination itself. This statement is supported by both Margaret Atwood’s fictional dystopian novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Oliver Stone’s crime fiction film ‘Natural Born Killers’. Through the use of multiple techniques Atwood makes it clear that the protagonist Offred undertakes inner and imaginative journeys during the course of the novel and learns from them. Likewise‚ Stone uses an array of film techniques

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    After analysing Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Alia Dharssi’s ‘Completely failing women’: Why the Zika epidemic is really a women’s rights crisis‚ it is clear to see the detrimental effect that external factors like state leaders and environmental conditions have on women’s’ freedom and independance. Government’s like Gilead and Brazil claim to find proper solutions to different crises‚ but ultimately use them as an excuse to seize power for their own benefits at the expense of people they

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    Innocent or Guilty? Grace Marks‚ the main character in Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood‚ is undoubtedly guilty. The evidence against her is way too much to consider innocence. Feeling sympathy towards Grace seems easy‚ especially since she tries to make it out to seem that she is the victim‚ but when looking at the facts only‚ it is obvious that the evidence all points against her. She has motives‚ Grace has left evidence‚ and her stories are not consistent with each other. The evidence‚ as well

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    December 12‚ 2013 The Importance of Childhood in Oryx And Crake In Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake we see the cause and effect of how our childhood and how we are raised has a large correlation to what type of adult we become. Through the character of Jimmy and later his new persona Snowman‚ the reader is shown the detrimental effects of an abandoned childhood. Not only do Jimmy’s poor choices in his adult life have a clear link to his neglected and unguided childhood they also create an adult

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