The Handmaid'S Tale Essay

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…

DREAM-CATCHER “You look terrible,” she said, handing him another cup of coffee. Edgar looked exhaustedly with blood-shot eyes at the waitress who handed him his piping hot drink. “I feel terrible,” he said, “Haven’t gotten sleep in almost five days already.” “Why? Somethin’ bugging you?” the waitress asked in her old, raspy voice. “Oh, it’s nothing,” Edgar lied. He’d been having nightmares endlessly since the incident. “Come on,” the waitress begged, “You can tell me. I never hear anything…

the Spanish Inquisition all of which began with a common scapegoat and a resulting social change, similar to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale and the dystopian society of Gilead. The scapegoats in history have varied, in Nazi Germany it was the Jews, in the Spanish Inquisition it was Jews and Muslims, while the demographic persecuted in The Handmaids Tale is women, before and after the…

When power is abused, society crumbles. This is demonstrated through the two different texts between the futuristic, dystopian, totalitarian society portrayed in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and the seventeenth century Elizabethan era monarchy of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Firstly, throughout both of these respective texts, power is established through the rankings, government, and social structure of society. Additionally, the fierce power of women’s sexuality is clearly evident…

efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to the government” (Jiddu Krishnamurti) This quote by the public speaker, Jiddu Krishnamurti, is often reflected in the novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The novels both deal with the recurring theme that the government is willing to remove humanity for an efficient, conflict-free society. We see this in both government's use of conditioning the society, their…