Colleen Atwood

their necks and their hands tied behind them. Atwood writes, “Sometimes, they’ll be there for days, until there’s a new batch, so as many people as possible will have the chance to see them” (Atwood 32) Atwood is explaining that the people who are in charge are extremely brutal and will hang anyone and everyone. The purpose of the wall is to be there as a sort of scare tactic. The days that the narrator visits the wall there are doctors hanging. Atwood…

turned it into something very radical. I was inspired it Atwoods book by how the women came together and started “Mayday.” I think true feminism is about fighting for equality. No woman should experience the type of oppression experienced in this book, however, the devastating part is that many women do endure acts committed in this book. “We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” (Margaret Atwood pg 56) In today’s society many people have…

are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?” Mary Astell This question is one that women and men have struggled to answer through history. Do males and society view women with equal rights? In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood creates a dystopia society, which demonstrates the injustice towards women’s rights. In this challenging novel, the narrator and protagonist, Offred is a Handmaid in the “Republic of Gilead.” Handmaids are female servants, who supposedly are…

“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from” (Atwood 24). The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a story of freedoms, and questions what it means to truly be free. An oppressive character in the novel, a woman apart of the theologically tyrannical Gilead, named Aunt Lydia introduces the ideas of “freedom to” and “freedom from” early in Offred’s telling of her story (Atwood 24). ‘Freedom to’ is best described as being able to do what one wants to do,…

Margaret Atwood is a famous writer and poet in canada, many people and causes influenced Atwood and her work, Atwood was heavily awarded and an extraordinary writer, Atwood has been writing since a young age and has known what she has wanted to do for a long time. Atwood was impacted by many people in addition to her father. “The position of her father as a prominent entomological researcher had a profound effect on the eventual career of his daughter” (Gray 73). Her father's work inspired her…

In the Handmaid’s Tale, it begins with Offred presenting the situation that handmaids are in. Handmaids are to not have contact with any other caste in the system. They are suppose to bare children for Commanders. The handmaids are constructed by the Aunts in the households. The Aunts carry electric cattle prods for their enforcement. However, the only people with guns are the guards. The handmaids are usually given the right to leave when going for food and they must be in pairs when shopping.…

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel about a dystopian society that occurs when a conservative party takes control of a nation. Offred is the main character who is subject to this government. It changes her life in a way that completely displaces her from her old life in a negative way. Offred is shaped by her cultural surroundings. Specifically, the religious components of the world around her and the harsh government guides her thoughts and views. She is psychologically and…

When reading The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood capitalizes on the uses and misuses of language in Gilead, as well as our society. In the book, she demonstrates that language is vital for any form of power, whether in the privacy of a bedroom, or in the public streets of the republic. Atwood demonstrates how language can undermine the human condition, namely self identity, community and self expression. However, the use of language that can enrich lives, can revitalize memories or communities…

many of the others, in the network. In case you get caught” (Atwood 202). This reveals that there are people who want to rebel, but rebellion is inefficient because nobody knows who they can trust. Additionally, rebellions are…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, the women of the Republic of Gilead has to adhere to strict rules presented by the society. The women were represented as instruments to reproduce offsprings in order to increase the population of Gilead, rather than actual humans with feelings and emotions. This quote that I selected was occurred after the speech given by the Commander at the Prayvaganza about how the Gilead society provides women with safety and comfort and allow them to “fulfill their biological…