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    provoke the reader into awareness of its language and construction‚ not just its content’ The conceptual understanding of a good text revolves not only around its content‚ but also its language and construction. This notion articulates profoundly within Margaret Atwood’s novel A Handmaid’s Tale as it is‚ after all‚ the author’s manipulation of the language and construction which enacts as vehicles towards the reader’s understanding of the content. A Handmaid’s Tale is a confrontational post-modern work

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    Offred is the primary character form The Handmaid’s Tale. She is a lady in her 30s who is being compelled to function as a Handmaid‚ because of the simple fact that her womb is healthy to bear babies. It is revealed at the end of the book that this lady gets recorded her story over some tapes. Offred’s final destiny is left equivocal. This lady is the former partner of Luke and the mother of a little girl‚ she then commences a relationship with a Guardian‚ Nick‚ who she creates romantic emotions

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    Maria IB English 05/31/12 How do the scenes‚ of both the book and movie‚ of The Handmaid´s Tale made changes for their own benefit? The Handmaid´s Tale book by the Canadian Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel‚ science fiction first published in 1985. It won so many prizes such as the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Nebula Award‚ among others‚ that this novel was adapted to the big screen. The movie adaptation‚ named the same as the book‚ was directed by Volker Schlondorff and made in 1990

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    The Commander’s Wife I can almost feel it. Feel my hate‚ disgust‚ yearning. It’s clammy palms are clasped well within my dry‚ aged ones; I was choosing to ignore how the tightness of my grip was spitefully cutting into the youthful flesh. I was choosing to ignore many things. I also wasn’t the only thing cutting into the lament faced mass of bones before me. My eyes reluctantly glanced up to his withered face‚ lines of wisdom and experience coating his physiognomy. A flinch beckoned me to

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    tolitarian state‚ Atwood suggests‚ that people would endure oppression willingly as long as they could receive some slight amount of power or freedom. If any substantial power is taken from people‚ they will find a way to maintain control over themselves and other individuals. One of the most important themes in ’The Handmaid’s Tale’ is the presence and manipulation of power. Offred remembers her mother saying that it is “truly amazing‚ what people can get used to‚ as long as there are a few compensations

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    Handmaid's Tale Power

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    Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything‚ but because it comes from everywhere. And “Power‚” insofar as it is permanent‚ repetitious‚ inert and self-reproducing‚ is simply the over-all effect that emerges from all these mobilities‚ the concatenation that rests on each of them and seeks in turn to arrest their movement. (Foucault 1978‚ p. 93) Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale gives a classical example of this all-encompassing nature of power. Set in the late-20th-century

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    brought forward more power than imaginable for women‚ men still have more power over the daily lives of women than possible. Although women’s rights laws have dramatically increased in the past few decades‚ especially in third-world countries‚ generally men still possess nearly all of the political and governing power. While the Wives of the Commanders have power over the household and all its residents‚ excluding the Commander‚ in The Handmaid’s Tale‚ offering women remnants of power do not conceal the

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    is shatterproof. There is nothing in the room from which one could hang a rope‚ and the door does not lock or even shut completely. Looking around‚ Offred remembers how Aunt Lydia told her to consider her circumstances a privilege‚ not a prison. Handmaids‚ to which group the narrator belongs‚ dress entirely in red‚ except for the white wings framing their faces. Household servants‚ called “Martha’s‚” wear green uniforms. “Wives” wear blue uniforms. Offred often secretly listens to Rita and Cora‚ the

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    George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale are both novels in which the state‚ namely Oceania and Gilead‚ attempts to exert totalitarian control over the lives of its peoples. Through Orwell and Atwood’s subsequent portrayal on the ensuing dystopias we are clearly able to see the respective states desire to control love and emotion‚ which are considered undesirable distractions‚ as a means of achieving the totalitarian control that they so desire. It is thus in

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    The Power of Language Language plays an important role in communication by bringing people together and enriching their relationships. Language can also alienate those who do not speak it properly‚ or at all‚ from those who do. The essays‚ Mother Tongue‚ by Amy Tan‚ best known for her book‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ and Se Habla Espanol‚ by Tanya Barrientos‚ delve into the many powers that language holds. These essays reflect how by not speaking a language in proper form and by not speaking a language

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