Margaret Court

The Oxford dictionary defines identity as “The characteristics of determining who or what a person or thing is”. The Hebrew word “Galut”, “initially referred to the setting of colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile”, when translated into Greek leads us to the etymology of the term “diaspora”, based on “speiro” (to sow) and the preposition “dia (over)” and in Ancient Greece it referred to “colonization” and “migration.” (Shuval, 2003) Thus, diaspora refers to the…

The Wrongful Extinction of Sensuality In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, she creates a dystopian society where women are valued for their sexual functions instead of their attributes. Her novel is set in a post-United States era in a time where men control everything, from the jobs to women’s bodies. Offred, previously married, is a handmaid of a powerful Commander and his wife. It is her job to provide the couple with a child. Society has been trained to believe that all eroticism is…

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury where the government send fireman to burn all book or any literature. In Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood a man name Crake is a well-known scientist and creates a pill that genocide the human race except Jimmy who then become Snowman. In this two book shows how knowledge and government can change the human’s evolution. Crake isn’t the protagonist of Oryx and Crake but he’s the protagonist “Jimmy” best friend. Crake was a smart boy in high school but then…

possess the audience's soul throughout Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy for president Ronald Reagan. The former prime minister of Great Britain (and close friend of Ronald Reagan), reflects on the memories left behind by a great man. Margaret Thatcher wrote an awe-inspiring eulogy while effectively using pathos, ethos, and diction. Initially, Thatcher uses excellent pathos to create an emotional connection throughout her speech. [D: Position] Within her introduction Margaret Thatcher begins to build…

Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939. Her hometown is Ontario Canada. Her parents and siblings are Carl Edmund Atwood, Margaret Dorothy Killam, Ruth Atwood, and Harold Leslie Atwood. She is at age 79. Margaret Atwood is famous because she is an author. She writes famous poet. She is a literary critic. She is a journalist. She is also an award - winning novelist. Interesting facts about Margaret Atwood are she thought of her first poem while walking football field. She wrote a song…

The Blind Assassin is a layered, multi genre story created by Margaret Atwood set in Port Ticonderoga, Canada throughout the 20th century. The two main characters are Iris and Laura Chase, the daughter of a rich war veteran who owns a button factory. The story itself is broken up into four subplots, all from the point of view of Iris, the eldest sister. The outermost story is of 80 year old Iris, her daily life, as she tells the second story of her family’s past, which hit on many of Atwood’s…

Throughout history the powerful few have at times seized control of a state and exercised their power and influence in a manner that inflicts great damage to a few for the benefit of the many, or so they allege. To further their agenda these dictators vilify a small group in society by alleging that they are subversive and represent a danger to society. This pattern of persecution can be observed as far back as the 1500s in the Spanish inquisition, in the 1700s with the Salem Witch Hunts or more…

Can a utopia, as necessitated by its definition, actually be perfect if in insuring the future of the human race, its people are required to lose their autonomy? Both the novel The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood, and film The Island directed by Michael Bay, explore this question. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood uses a subgroup called Handmaids from a fictional society called The Republic of Gilead, as a means to examine the effects of objectification, forced servitude, and restricted…

In “The Handmaid’s Tale” the author Margaret Atwood's use of language represents how power restricts women from their freedom. In the novel the women are stripped of their real names, their voices and their rights. The Handmaid's work in a house in Gilead run by a married commander, whom they must have sex with to become pregnant and provide the household with a child. The narrator, Offred uses her language as a tool to escape the plight of her existence by manipulating things to her…

The novel The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian novel in which the protagonist Offred is cut off from any outside information and is supposed to assume that she is constantly being spied on. Offred is a handmaid and is only valued for her ability to produce offspring as the world she lives is suffering from declining birth rates. Atwood incorporates several features of dystopia such as the idea of power, totalitarianism, and war. Atwood also includes the features…