Echos of our time
History represents past events that connects with people and things on more than a physical or emotional level. However, often times such notion of history are diluted into subjective views and thus creates a blurry representation to the present time. Students and people of the present day study the past event to reflect upon the historical impact (such as the insight on the wrongdoing and rightdoing of a certain practice within a society) that possess many unknown factors in which can not be decipher unless they have all the knowledge and experience about what has happened. There’s a handful of assumptions that we as a society put our belief into without diving in deeper for the bigger picture. In the novel The Handmaid’s …show more content…
To take note who’s should be blame, who has it worse, and who is strong enough to forgive and move on. The war within the novel As novice historian (as an observer) “the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes” of stories that “is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come [from]”(Atwood 311). There’s so many question in which the book does not answer but leave for the reader to assume such as how does the narrator live after trusting Nick’s statement or how the historical notes somehow recovered Offred’s tapes and evaluated as if they were something of the past and not the present in which they live in. The uprising questions presented in the novel have similar aspect to those of the present day as there’s many blank space within a time frame the lead to the present time that can not be fully be understood unless with added illustration and extra content that people can assump from context
History represents past events that connects with people and things on more than a physical or emotional level. However, often times such notion of history are diluted into subjective views and thus creates a blurry representation to the present time. Students and people of the present day study the past event to reflect upon the historical impact (such as the insight on the wrongdoing and rightdoing of a certain practice within a society) that possess many unknown factors in which can not be decipher unless they have all the knowledge and experience about what has happened. There’s a handful of assumptions that we as a society put our belief into without diving in deeper for the bigger picture. In the novel The Handmaid’s …show more content…
To take note who’s should be blame, who has it worse, and who is strong enough to forgive and move on. The war within the novel As novice historian (as an observer) “the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes” of stories that “is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come [from]”(Atwood 311). There’s so many question in which the book does not answer but leave for the reader to assume such as how does the narrator live after trusting Nick’s statement or how the historical notes somehow recovered Offred’s tapes and evaluated as if they were something of the past and not the present in which they live in. The uprising questions presented in the novel have similar aspect to those of the present day as there’s many blank space within a time frame the lead to the present time that can not be fully be understood unless with added illustration and extra content that people can assump from context