The Handmaid'S Tale Essay

Probably...that was all Alexia had managed to get out of the mystery man sitting across from her. She didn't expect getting information from him was going to be easy. But she wasn't about to spend however long their times was together in near silence either. Alexia watched him eat, inhaling his meal as if he had not eaten in weeks. It made her wish there was better food to offer. She was no five start chef, but Alexia dared anyone to make mre's and canned beans tasted better. She sighed at…

The Dovre Witch was a hunchbacked old woman who wore a silver belt, birch-bark shoes, and a leather jacket. Her pipe was filled with moss and she begged from the very poorest. Even though she begged, she was in fact a very wealthy witch. The Dovre Witch had the ultimate power and if she wanted, she could strike fear into any peasant who failed to satisfy her needs. On this particular afternoon, Dovre Witch was feeling very irritable after she was denied her prized ham by the Countess Marta.…

Pregnancy is something all the Handmaids long to be yet, pregnancy in Gilead is awfully scarce. Therefore, when one of the Handmaids become pregnant everyone knowns about it. Once a woman is pregnant extra precautions are taken to ensure the pregnancy goes through all the way. The pregnant Handmaid is then released of all her daily tasks to eliminate any means of a terminated pregnancy. She is not even compelled to go on her daily walk however, one day when Offred and another Handmaid are out…

Right from the start, Celeste Ng is straightforward and tells us that Lydia is dead. As readers, we spend the whole novel knowing that Lydia was dead before her story began. Her family does not know this piece of information until her body is found. When the police inform her family that they found her body, her family is put into the same position as the reader, knowing Lydia was dead but not knowing how or why she died. The end of chapter one brings us to the next step in understanding…

Her footsteps echoed eerily in the long empty corridor. This late at night, the stone walls provided no warmth. Shivering, Lady Macbeth moves towards her husband’s chamber, gripped with the need to plan. If they did not act carefully, she was sure all would be lost. Macbeth was going crazy, and they could not afford that now. At least her struggles were private; he so openly showed his madness at the coronation dinner! The whole thing was a disaster. When he rambled on about seeing Banquo’s…

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. How Guy has been acting so strange lately, and how the ladies in the plot ratted…

Saying goodbye to the clan leader, Dondorian was one of the hardest things Moira had ever done. Her large amber eyes glistened with the strain of the moment, for it had the feel of forever to it. He was a savior, a father, a friend. It was he that set her free as a young slave. And he who invited her into his wagon as a child of his own. It was he that wrapped her in a hug that communicated more to her than he would ever voice. "We adapt, survive, maintain, circle through, but we come home.…

Annette had casually dismissed the guard from his duty of watching over Leonard in his cell. She stated, “My parents are having dinner in the dining hall, so that way isn 't possible, but there is at the end of the corridor a back way, it leads through the sewers, and we will get out at Denna 's Diner.” Leonard looked at her and responded, “I don 't see a princess dressed the way you are dressed going very far in the sewers, don 't you think your gown will get in the way and ruined?” Annette…

Deep sadness overwhelmed Minimus as grief and guilt settled in him over the death of his older brother. All throughout his childhood he looked up to Maximus. He had always admired his strength and beauty and truly believed that one day he would become like him. Memories flooded his mind of the years they spent together. Even though Minimis never got much attention from any of his brothers, the few special moments he had with Maximus he had grasped onto. He recalled one of his earliest and…

By and large, Ava quickly reached the conclusion she was no longer simply a woman seducing men for espionage, now she was a political criminal too. Realizing her larceny and godless existence might lead to her death, Ava plotted how she would use her charms to get through what she figured would be a lengthy imprisonment, if not torture and death. Every few days, when they shoved a bowl of gruel at her and some stale cheese, she flirted with the guards. When they questioned her, she followed…