1.The king administered justice by turning his imaginations into facts. He made his decisions by himself without getting input from no one but himself. He built a public arena. One of the purpose of the arena was to widen and develop the mental energies of the people. Such as having two doors with a vicious tiger behind one and a beautiful lady behind the other.…
Guy is absolutely in shock in this section of the book. The antagonist, Captain Beatty, has gotten on Guy’s last nerve and now has paid the price. Guy is flabbergasted when the firefighters pull up to burn down a house, and the building turns out to be Guy’s home! As guy gets out of the Salamander, Captain Beatty tells him the entire setup of what he knew. How he sent the hound around the house sniffing for books.…
Chaucer introduces January as a “worthy knight” (line 34) this initially gives the reader a good impression of him. The knight in question is old but wealthy and he desires a wife. The ironic relationship between the narrator and protagonist makes the reader’s assessment of January a complex character. However when January speaks the reader is able to suspect his motives. When speaking about the January, the narrator glorifies marriage making the reader understand why such an old man is in want of a wife and also introducing the importance of the theme of marriage in the book.…
The psychological phenomenon known as the “Bystander Effect” occurs when “the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation. (“Bystander Effect.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers). The Handmaid’s Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is a brilliant novel that discusses the future society of the Republic of Gilead. Each Handmaid has been assigned to a married couple who are having troubles reproducing due to fertility issues.…
The Handmaid's Tale, a novel about a typical ordinary woman named Offred. In this society woman don’t have basic rights like the choice to choose and being allowed to read. Her name doesn't sound like any typical name because she has become property and named after the commander who in this society owns her. Offred's occupation, handmaiden serves as a vessel to carry children of the rich and wealthy. Infertile and unimportant woman are sent to the colonies and suffer a short life in hard labor.…
The main protagonist of the book is Offred: she is a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian, theocratic state. The reproductive rates are low due to pollution and handmaids are assigned to bear children. Offred serves a couple, Commander Fred and Serena Joy. Offred must have impersonal sex with the commander while holding Serena’s hands.…
Dread is the eldest son of King Ramesses II and he’s a member of the four most dangerous warriors on earth. His father sent him to Himalayas where he can trained by his former masters from a secret village high in the mountains in the Himalayas. An ancient place of all knowledge of martial arts a village of Shaolin Monks. Over the last few centuries he’s been trained in the arts of Ninjutsu and multiples of Martial arts,…
The writer helps the reader understand more about the main character in the beginning on the story by stating “the bartenders would send me shots of tequila, which i tossed down in between sending loads of steins through the Hobart”. This sort of in between the lines message helps the reader to understand that the main character is a very outgoing and enjoys drinking even at her young age of eighteen, which may be seen as juvenile. The major conflict of the story is when the Fireplug gets angry at the narrator for having other people work in the store without payroll, and fires her. A detail that shows this conflict is when the Fireplug asks everyone if they have a college degree and everyone but the narrator raises their hands. A detail that…
Offred serves as more of a victim in the novel than a hero. She ends up relying on other women or men to fight back. She herself is afraid of resistance and risking her life. In fact, her name can be examined and if one says it carefully, the name Offred sounds similar to afraid. It is also very similar to the word offered, which is symbolic because Offred offered stories of heroism in her story, but all of them were stories of other characters because she was afraid to act (Cooke 125).…
In the Handmaid's Tale we are introduced to the dystopian world of Gilead, where Offred, the narrator, and many other characters are introduced. Offred is a handmaid in the story, meaning her one job in the society is to be able to provide children for the sterile ‘elite’ class who can not have children. She and the other handmaids are required to wear red with white wings on their face so as not to show their face or see anyone. In the first chapter we also see the setting with is in a gymnasium where Offred and other handmaids are watched and kept only aloud to go out once a day for a walk and constantly being watched by Guards, Angel, and the Aunts. The Aunts, such as Aunt Lydia, patrol the places where the Handmaid's stay and carry…
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a book built upon shaky ground. It is a story pieced together years after it occurred by a man who did not care for the heroine--only for her commander. So it makes sense that this shaky account--with its biased interpreter and at times lack of evidence--would conclude with a shaky ending, one where our heroine, Offred, is taken into the unknown, either to safety or insured death. Both possibilities for her ending are equally unsettling, the kind of unknown that sends chills down one's spine, for even if she is taken to safety, her life has been folded over so many times, reinvented then destroyed, that the chances of her becoming the woman she once was is slim to none. In both the conclusion of Offred’s…
To begin, Offred is the main character of this story. She tells the reader that Offred is not her real name and that her real name has to be kept a secret. All handmaid’s names have to do with the name of the man they are assigned. Offred is 33 years old, she has brown hair, and she is five feet and seven inches tall (Atwood, 1983, p. 143). She is a typical women her age.…
In The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood published in 1985, the main character, Offred, is a powerless handmaid for a wealthy family. Offred’s role as a handmaid is to have a baby for the commander and his wife because the wife is infertile. Offred has no rights and is not allowed to own any property. She is trained how to live a new life and follow all the rules of a handmaid to avoid punishment. According to Malak, “However, not all the female characters in Atwood's novel are sympathetic, nor all the male ones demonic.”…
Feminist Theory within The Handmaid’s Tale Feminist criticism is a literary approach that seeks to distinguish the female human experience from the male human experience. Feminist critics draw attention to the ways in which patriarchal social structures purloined women while male authors have capitalized women in their portrayal of them. Feminism and feminist criticism did not gain recognition until the late 1960’s and 1970’s(maybe add citation here of where you found this info). Instead is was a reestablishment of old traditions of action and thought already consisting its classic books which distinguished the problem of women’s inequality in society. In the 1970’s, The Second Wave of Feminism occurred known as Gynocriticism, which was pioneered…
It is important to acknowledge that cultural, social, and historical contexts play a crucial role in the shaping of a novel and giving it meaning. The relevance of a novel’s context can be seen in the three literary works that I have studied. The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, challenges society’s understanding and perspective towards gender inequality and a totalitarian regime by telling the story from the perspective of a woman. The Unbearable Lightness of Being provides a philosophical perspective on life and Milan Kundera uses Czechoslovakia’s history and his anti-communist background to explain further the significance of life.…