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    Margaret Atwood ’s The Handmaid ’s Tale would seem‚ on the surface‚ a straightforward feminist text. The narrative is set in a speculative future‚ exploring gender inequalities in an absolute patriarchy in which women are breeders‚ housekeepers‚ mistresses‚ or housewives—or otherwise exiled to the Colonies. In Atwood ’s fictional Gilead‚ all of the work of twentieth-century feminism has been utterly undone‚ and the text explores the effects of this from a first-person point of view that elicits the

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    So I just finished reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and I could not be more in agreeance with its messages. In case you don’t know‚ the book was written during the first waves of feminism and civil rights movements and depicts a dystopian society known as the Republic of Gilead which took over what used to be known as the United States in 1985. The book addresses various social controversies which were present at the time‚ and frankly most of which are issues I still see today such

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    The Handmaid’s Tale Response Paper The motif of time is very apparent in this section. Time‚ something are never thought much of before her new life‚ is now an object she thinks about frequently. “There’s time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn’t prepared for – the amount of unfilled time‚” (Atwood 69). “In the afternoons we lay o our beds for an hour in the gymnasium…they were giving us a chance to get used to blank time‚” (70). “The clock ticks with its pendulum‚ keeping time my feet

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    Throughout the entire text of The Handmaid’s Tale‚ the ruling totalitarian government does what is in its power to attempt to isolate women from society. Not only do are the women isolated from society in terms of sexual contact (or any contact‚ for that matter)‚ with men‚ but they are also individualized within the gender itself and separated from each other. Evidence of this isolation is available throughout the novel in different levels. The first level‚ perhaps the harshest‚ is the division of

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    Darren Jacob Mrs. Jones English 1B October 31‚ 2013 The Complex Commander Offred says to herself‚ “What do you mean? The Commander‚ it must be. See me? What does he mean by see? Hasn’t he had enough of me?”(99). In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ The Commander is a man who expresses several sides of his character and personality. Throughout the book the Commander shows character traits of someone who is emotional and sympathetic. In their society‚ the Republic of Gilead‚ the Commander is one

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    Professor Mc.Comish Assignment: A tale of two divorces 3/12/12 In “a tale of two divorces”‚ Roiphe made a statement “my divorce is the tale of two divorces‚ one that never was and one that was”. The first divorce is her mothers‚ but the divorce never happened. The second divorce is hers‚ which did happen. The reason she uses the word “my” in her statement is because‚ her mother’s divorce which never happened was the reason she had a divorce of her own. Unintentionally she had been following

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    Nelson AP Literature and Composition October 9‚ 2014 How Figurative Language Effects Tone in “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” As seen by simply reading the poem‚ one cannot come from it without having a feeling of awe and inspiration‚ along with a new desire to read Chapman’s translation of Homer. The poem is rich with emotion-invoking language and filled to the brim with excitement. The poet‚ John Keats‚ uses figurative language such as metaphor and simile to create a tone of wonder

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    The Death of Good: Figurative Death in Night In the early 1940’s‚ Hitler started death camps. His goal was to kill all of the Jews because they were not pure Germans. He started concentration camps‚ where they would beat and starve the prisoners until they died. The prisoners went through selections to see what job to make them‚ and if they were not fit enough‚ to kill them. The Nazis used crematories in which they burned prisoners‚ in ovens‚ until they were ashes. One of the most infamous concentration

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    can have its advantages but it can also create risks. Names make a connection and without that connection people become objects‚ titles‚ or ideas. When a person is given a title in place of a name they become the title instead of a person. In The Handmaids Tell this happens to almost everyone. Even the main character never reveals her real name‚ but instead she only goes by her title‚ Offred (Atwood 305). Going by titles allows the world they live in to operate‚ because it limits the value that people

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    Poetry and Figurative Language paper Eng/340 Natasha Parker Week 2 Since this week’s appraisals I have selected the following three poems; “My grandmother’s love letters” by Hart Crane‚ “The road not taken” Robert Frost‚ as well as “Richard Cory” by Edward Arlington Robinson. My Grandmother’s Love Letters By Hart Crane (1899-1932) There are no stars tonight But those of memory. Yet how much room for memory there is In the loose girdle of soft rain. There is even room enough For the

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