The Handmaid'S Tale Essay

This is an extract from Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. We see how Offred describes her breakfast with great detail due to her boredom in her bedroom followed by the birth ceremony of Ofwarren’s child. This occurs after she recounts her memory of being pregnant and being with her husband before the Regime. Atwood manages to make two specific themes prominent in this extract of women's bodies being used as political instruments and religion showing effect of oppression. She makes these…

Serena Joy, The Commander’s wife is a complex character in The Handmaid’s Tale. She is seen throughout the entire story as a cruel, coldhearted woman who believes she is better than the rest of the wives and handmaid’s. But diving deeper into the story, you can see Serena is a woman searching for her purpose of raising a child, and is willing to do what it takes to have the perfect family life that she wants. Serena Joy is perceived as an anti- feminist queen. Her belief in the ways of Gilead…

These neologisms are created to signify the changes that have occurred and contrasts modern society to how it used to be. The use of new language and vocabulary in daily life also forces people to let go of the past and accept new ideas. Also the Handmaid’s are assigned new names based up the name of the commander who they are working for at the time. Offred’s name is construction of the word “of” and the name “Fred” because she belongs to her commander, Fred. Her name changes with each placing…

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. In Gilead, the women are…

claims that we “impose a narrative structure on the world”, that is - we see narrative as our lens in which our lives are experienced. This claim that narratives are influenced by experience can be detected in the work of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Omar Musa’s Capital Letters (2013), where both composers demonstrate the importance of narrative and its ability to…

I couldn’t believe that Witch would do something like this! As I looked down at my tweeny little weary arms and legs, they were so meaty and tasty looking. But that’s not the point! How was I going to brag and make fun of them while taking my sterile baths?! I could hear Whit praising his sister for performing this atrocity, oh those wretched traitors would pay. As I looked at the interrogation room from my new perspective, I got started to remember what got me here, turning in my big sister,…

world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people” - Karl Marx. Systematic oppression can be used to control the ways of society and get into the minds of civilians to “convert” to new methods of life. In the novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, by Margaret Atwood, civilians of lower class and women are targeted in the society, known as Gilead, to enforce laws put together by the upper class civilians. Individuals in this society are methodically persecuted through religious…

This poem chronicles the evolution of an adult from an ambiguous time after the year 1000. It is written in modern English, suggesting it is closer to the present day. The speaker describes his descent into a state disconnected from previously faithful self. It is apparent that he longs for his prior innocence and devotion to God. The poem can be divided into two distinct parts; the first stanza recalls the first of his two “mortal paths” which was the innocence of his youth. In the latter…

As most of the handmaids would accept one’s fate in Gilead Moira wouldn’t, she represents an importance by showing difficulties in the resistance movement in totalitarianism. In Gilead women are almost irrelevant and like said in the novel “A Natural Resource” Moira has seemed to have characterized to be a woman who has ignored Gilead’s philosophy in many of ways. Moira is a strong and independent woman who is not afraid to stand one’s ground and refuses to be confined to any rules that are…

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, By training with Shaolin Monks and Martial arts masters from different…