Colleen Atwood

In the short story Happing Endings, Margaret Atwood conveys several unique ways of alternating the stories theme. For instance, in scenario A the couple John and Mary live a happy life with no conflict nor problems and dithery live and die happily. While in scenario B-F Atwood gives us scenarios of different conflicts and tragedies that's not surprisingly happen in peoples everyday life, but you still end up with the same outcome as scenario A. This short story gave me mixed emotions about, see…

Persepolis, a well-known graphic novel, is a very gritty and dark book telling the story about life in Iran after the Islamic revolution and the oppression that is being put on the public by the government. It shows the many demonstrations that were held by the people to protest about the government and the death that has been caused by the shah. For example, the shah, on page 14, had locked about 400 people in a movie theatre and had burned the theatre to the ground along with the people…

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down”(Atwood 223). The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian literature novel that is viewed as a cautionary tale which forewarned the oppression of women in a society known as The Republic of Gilead. The story unfolds through the narration of the protagonist, Offred, who is a Handmaid in this totalitarian society. Her character is dehumanized by others in this society while also being taught that a fertile woman’s…

The manipulation of power within The Handmaid’s Tale is very evident within the household. The power resides in position one is in at that household. Atwood uses figurative language, word repetition, and symbolism to explain the power. What use to be called the United States of America, is now the Republic of Gilead. Due to low birth rates, a society was built to try and turn around the reproduction issue. The society is set around a hierarchy. This hierarchy revolved specifically around the…

The handmaid is an excellent book to read, in my opinion this book should remain on the high school curriculum because in the book they teach you the way women’s live during the war, the conduction that women’s had to go through and the impact on the women. In the book the author takes bunch of characters and talk about them. They are not any random characters, these are the characters the story revolves around. These are the people that brought change in the book. They are the one that push…

In the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the language established in Gilead promotes conformity. This language utilizes biblical and neologism appeals to get their citizens to conform and follow the new regulations. To begin with, the novel is littered with biblical names and phrases: “Jezebel”, “Martha”, “Milk and Honey”, “All Flesh”, “Lilies” and many more. All of these appellations come from the bible and are used to name the shops that the handmaid’s daily shop at, the housemaids, and the…

divine presence, an aura of being among the people while simultaneously being not of them. Jimmy, in his reinvented persona as Snowman, describes him saying that “Crake had a thing about him even then...he generated awe...He exuded potential...” (Atwood, 75). This aura and potential that Crake possessed, even as a child, comes in the form of scientific ability and ensures his survival in a world that is essentially overrun by consumerism and consumption. It is only those who can create products…

Margaret Atwood emphasises through her novel possible negative outcomes that may occur when an individual or society continuously live negligent lives in the twenty first century. This may include negligence of the environment, physical health, and toxic chemical usage. She uses narrative construction in The Handmaids Tale to depict one of the many grotesque situations which may arise in the upcoming future; a formation of a totalitarian theocratic society which controls political, social, and…

Jannelly Figueroa Mr. Sieker 1520-2150 20 March, 2016 Religion, Colonialism, Modernism, and Feminism in a Dystopian Society In the book, A Handmaid’s Tale, the author, Margaret Atwood, shows what a dystopian society consisting of very distinct classes is like through the eyes of a handmaid named Offred. Little by little, readers are informed on what has occurred in this state, how an act of rebellion led the breakdown of a whole nation, and to what extremes the whole formation of the society…

“Do you believe a woman’s place is on the kitchen table?” (Atwood 138) While most would be outraged if this question was posed to them and others would likely cite some response similar to “this is the twenty first century” or “absolutely not”, Atwood’s dystopic novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, makes one question what real progress has been made with respect to women’s rights. Though it was written some thirty odd years ago, Atwood’s depiction of women in the oppressive Gilead society and the…