Colleen Atwood

correct means is dependent solely on the individual themselves. If the achieved power is abused it directly correlates to a negative ripple effect on the lives of others. In the novels, The Handmaid’s Tale and Night written by Elie Wiesel and Margret Atwood respectively, the same concept applies. The systems in both novels abuse their power, oppressing the lives of those around them through physical, mental, and psychological pains. Through constant oppression the masses are stripped of their…

In the novel, Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood, Atwood introduces postmodernist motifs throughout the development of Crake as a character. Crake increasingly begins to feel a deep resentment for humanity due to economical, racial, religious, and social conflicts that humanity causes. As a result, Crake begins to develop a new species, called Crakers, that transcends the mental processes for these injustices to exist and believes in a Marxist interpretation of post-humanistic society. At the…

Handmaid’s Tale”, Margaret Atwood describes a new society, Gilead, formed from the ruins of the modern day the United States. Although theoretically this society is built to foster women and protect them from fear of sexual harassment and rape, Gilead takes feminism back hundreds of years. Women are either sexless wives and Marthas or childbearing Handmaids. With a distorted version of the Bible as a model, the Gilead leaders formed a republic founded on fear and oppression. Atwood leaves hints…

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian world of Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale, we are introduced to a totalitarian world in which fertile women are captured and it is their duty to have children for elite couples. Throughout the novel, the primary handmaid and protagonist, Offred, reminiscences on her former life as she reveals the realities of her new life with a somber tone. I argue that Offred being stripped of her purpose and being suppressed into someone she is not intensifies her desire for…

In ‘Once Upon a Time’, Red is plagued by a curse that will turn her into a wolf every full moon. However, she loses the memory when turning into the wolf. Her grandmother conceals the truth and buys her a red cloak from a wizard so as to prevent her being a wolf. She just tells Red that red can repeal wolves and protect her. Eventually, she learns how to control herself while turning into a wolf. But as long as the wolf side of her covered by the red cloak, she will turn back to human. In season…

current culture, but also the future culture of the Gilead society. Margaret Atwood employs various symbols throughout her novel to concretely embed the abstract concepts of patriarchal religious oppression in this society through the usage of historical settings in context, specifically through the settings of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University within Cambridge, and Salem, Massachusetts. The Handmaid’s…

Robert Duarte Mr. Recinto 12-5-15 Young Barry Allen's life stopped the minute his mother was murdered. The true killer never found, its mystery obsessed Barry, driving him to become a forensic scientist. Consumed by his work, he spent his life chained to his desk, solving every case that flew across it. But when a freak lightning bolt hits a nearby shelf in his lab, Barry receives super-speed, becoming the Flash. Now, he'll race up buildings, across oceans, and…