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    incidents, narrative techniques and symbolism. Atwood's novel is set in a place called Gilead, which was once known as The United States of America. Gilead was formed due to a crisis of decreasing birth rates, the whole country was formed around the goal of controlling reproduction. The state takes control of women's bodies and strips away all women's democratic rights. The reader understands the status given to women by Gilead and the idea of the world's sexual inequality. There are various…

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    your being. I was caught off guard with how well Atwood portrays this theme in The Handmaid’s Tale. While Gilead does use force to keep their citizens in check, they also clearly recognize the power that words possess and accordingly take that power away from women. As someone who has studied at private schools since pre-kindergarten, I have always been taught that intellect is an asset.…

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    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don 't let the bastards grind you down(Atwood, 185).” The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel about the collapse of the United States. There was a large population drop and the new government, known as Gilead, created a caste system to best repopulate the country. Women are seen as less than men and are deprived of individual rights. Women who are fertile and are able to have children become handmaids, often times, against their will. Handmaids are…

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    became Gilead. She recalls rivers, bridges, and dormitories. All of the things that she recalls, she remembers as being beautiful. This is when she realizes that almost everything she has picked out is beautiful to her, thus prompting her to say this quote. I chose this quote…

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    particularly Handmaids, are the main ones being targeted in the new society they live in. Handmaids are women in the Republic of Gilead who bear children with the Commanders. They have no other choice but to obey, unless they want to get shipped to the Colonies, which is an extended death sentence. Handmaids were the ones that had the lives changed the most when the Republic of Gilead took over as the new government. They are unable to solve their problems and help themselves, they do not have…

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    referred to as Offred but never reveals her true name, and her experiences in the newly formed Republic of Gilead. She explains, in a fragmented manner, how Gilead was born…

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    ability to manipulate and how it is often more effective than physical punishment as it "can be continuously applied to the general public without raising great public opposition of fear” (Berke) Gilead and Big Brother both exploit language to alter perceptions of reality. Atwood does this through the Gilead discourse which is “a hybridised rhetoric which combines biblical language with traces of American capitalist phrases” In a similar way Big Brother creates his own discourse that…

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    the hanging bodies from it. The wall is located past the church and the main function of the wall is to keep the citizens of Gilead from escaping or opposing higher authority. According to the narrator, Offred, “No one goes through those gates willingly. The precautions are for those trying to get out...”(Atwood 31). In order to keep their power, the high-ranked men of Gilead have added more security to the wall such as alarm systems and barbed wire. Consequently, no one willingly goes through…

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    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 breeding. Though not all women are handmaids mostly because they can’t have a child. The Handmaid’s Tale provides a possibility that it actually can happen in real life with the…

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    to maintain a stabilized economy that is ever growing. However, throughout history, an idea that originated by Adam Smith, the founding father of economics, is that education should be used counter the negative side-effects of economic development (Gilead, 2015, p. 625). While his suggestions may not be in agreement with the majority of society today, his insight offers the critical issues surrounding the field of higher education, a perspective which may offer techniques that could be…

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