Colleen Atwood

One of the greatest Canadian authors during the second half of the 20th century, Margaret Atwood is famous for her feminist works of literature that entertain and provide an insight into her opinion about the rights of women and its reception. The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a fictional world where women are subjected to a theocratic form of government. The main character is Offred, a Handmaid whose sole purpose in the society is to create children for the Wives and the Commander. This…

First Reading: “Don’t You Think It’s Time to Start Thinking?” By Northrop Frye Frye (year?) is talking about critical thinking as a means in which to discern the difference between reading and writing for basic knowledge, and the more effective use of articulated methods of reading and writing as way of expressing more complex thought processes: “Most students need to be taught, very carefully and patiently, that there is no such thing as an inarticulate idea waiting to have the right words…

her narrative position. Embedded within Atwood’s exterior narrative, Joan’s memory narrative and fictional writing are women writing about relationships between mothers and daughters, relationships with men and women’s relationships with themselves. Atwood challenges, and to some extent parodies the traditions of writing throughout…

her past is further clarified through Offred’s flashbacks, her state of mind causing her to imagine components and revising times of her and Luke’s life together, and her understanding of what she means to the world of Gilead. To begin, Margaret Atwood develops an understanding that the narrator Offred is unable to forget her past through the flashbacks narrated by Offred. Offred is reminded…

genetically modified pigoons it makes a connection to today’s world of genetically modifying animals to increase their suitability for use in extensive mono-culture. As Atwood (2003) astutely observes, “the pigoon organs could be customized, using cells from individual human donors, and the organs were frozen until needed” (p.23). Atwood is talking about pigs that have been…

In Margaret Atwood 's The Handmaid’s Tale, one is given a look into a society where women are deprived of power and live out lives of enslavement under a very strict and vigilant government. The government uses the Handmaids and other people, such as the commanders, in the society to ensure that everyone in the society is complying with its rules. The methods of Gilead’s government are absolutely archaic, “The Handmaid 's Tale brings together pre-Christian notions of absolute patriarchal…

When people think of someone being held against their will they associate that with people being treated like property, but that is not the case in the book Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. It is a story about a dystopian society where everything is regulated and people do not have the ability to make free choices. The story takes place from a point of view of a specific handmaid named Offred, a handmaid is a woman who is brought into a household for the sole reason of reproduction. They are…

Susan Judy is a Canadian writer of young adult literature. The novel “Alice I Think” is novel that resemblance a self-discovery. This novel is narrated by Alice’s modern-day journal entries to tell the story of Alice as she struggles with being independent-minded. Alice was raised by parents who are hippies and all about expressing their feelings. When Alice reads the book The Hobbit, she decides that she is a hobbit. Allice get into the characters a lot this is both emotionally and physically,…

Action and Reaction Our world, and lives, are full of trials and tribulations. Its our choices, actions, or lack thereof when facing these difficulties that influence the direction of our lives. Rene Denfeld explores this wonderfully in her novel The Enchanted. Her characters all face trials, of varying degrees of intensity, that not only shape them as people, but also, the direction of their lives. She delves into this process thoroughly through her character of the white-haired boy. He…

In the book “Handmaid’s Tale”, written by Margaret Atwood, explore Offred’s view on the world and how totalitarianism and theocratic is now taking over the United States because of the low reproduction rates they created the Handmaid’s to give birth to elite couple who are having trouble conceiving. The women are subjective to prostitution, pornography and violence during the republic of Gilead. As the author states “Atwood’s protagonist, Offred, is a Handmaid—a fallen woman who is forced to…