Colleen Atwood

In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, crisis is upon them: the population is declining and there are very few fertile people in Gilead. Consequently, the women in the novel are reduced to their reproductive ability and categorized based on that. In the article that is written by Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, she discusses the ironies that are present in the novel. There is a freedom from dangers where women are helpless, but there is also the freedom from being legitimately free.…

Music reveal values about a century. Many of these truths dispute what is considered normal. The 20th century was a time of inequality for women, along with many wars. Writer George Orwell focuses on the issues of imperialism whilst author Margaret Atwood concentrates on the concerns of gender equality and roles. In addition, artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, and Igor Stravinsky took their pieces of work and somehow went against what the 20th century society viewed as…

The issue that Atwood explains in this novel are rape, violence, and injustice. This book defined how women used to increase population. Like I stated before “In many areas women consider as useful object no more than that”. In addition in many areas rape doesn’t consider as a crime. Like in France, rape was not a crime until 1980. Women was not protected at all, they face many difficulties and no one is there to help them. Moreover, In Germany the estimate of 240,000 women rape, which put…

easy to see the power emotions hold over characters in literature. Emotional decision making can lead the character to hurting themselves in a way they may not have experienced if they had followed logic. In the novel The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood the reader is constantly in tune with what the main character Offred is thinking and feeling. Throughout the novel we see Offred making multiple decisions that impact her and those around her. When she makes these emotional decisions she adds…

they cannot change the way the handmaid’s think. Moreover, during the Particicution, Offred states that Ofglen “pushes the Guardian down sideways, then kicks his head viciously, one, two, three times, sharp painful jabs with the foot, well-aimed”(Atwood 322), which demonstrates her barbaric behavior. As opposed to hurting the Guardian for revenge, Ofglen is doing it to save him of his misery; an act of rebellion which the Eyes soon find out about. This act shows that Ofglen not only finds a way…

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter who according to Rolling Stones is “ one of the greatest songwriters of all time”. In the book “The Unspeakable” author Meghan Daum discusses the Joni Mitchell problem which is fans or non-fans, liking or disliking Mitchell's art for the wrong reasons. We can also call the fans and non-fans consumers. Daum makes the claim that Mitchell’s art can be interpreted in one way. Daum says the consumers see Mitchell as a romantic but to Daum that doesn’t…

How does the writer make the ending so dramatically effective? - The plight of Madame Loisel  (How does she perceive her life to be? Draw upon examples here!)  (What does her life become? Why is this ironic?) - The relationship between Madame + Monsieur  (Why does he seem so pleased with himself for the Party invitation?)  (He uses all his money not just to help buy her an outfit but also to buy a real diamond necklace)  (Why is he so content in life?) - Symbolism of the necklace  (How…

Democracy Lost Suddenly, having a new change in the Gilead people’s society while having their lives being ripped of them, Atwood presents a new type a Dystopian fiction. Offred is the main character who goes through terrifying times throughout her new, unwanted life. The primary situation that Offred and her peers go through is the struggle for freedom and sexism. Offred was brainwashed and manipulated into doing activities that are only beneficial to the Commander, Aunt Lydia, or the society…

The Handmaid’s tale is a feminist science fiction novel by a Canadian, and feminist writer Margaret Atwood. The story depicts psychological and physical struggle of a woman named Offred due to suppression of women by men in her society. Thus, the title Handmaid’s tale is representative of the life of Offred, the Handmaid or a female servant. This novel vividly portrays the cruelty of biological and social categorization. Handmaid’s tale takes place in a futuristic fictional society where…

One’s imagination is one’s reality, the mindset and possibility an event or action can be. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the novel presents a dystopian literature that emits an alternate reality of life. The story is gives off the government being broken and the society itself completely changed to the ways a few wanted which stripped women’s rights, United States of America changed to Republic of Gilead, and the Gilead made some women into Handmaids which used just for…