Margaret Edson

experience the type of oppression experienced in this book, however, the devastating part is that many women do endure acts committed in this book. “We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” (Margaret Atwood pg 56) In today’s society many people have taken a stance against sexual abuse, for example, the U.S. Olympic Gymnastic team. Despite this, some women are ignorant to the fact that they will never encounter such…

all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?” Mary Astell This question is one that women and men have struggled to answer through history. Do males and society view women with equal rights? In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood creates a dystopia society, which demonstrates the injustice towards women’s rights. In this challenging novel, the narrator and protagonist, Offred is a Handmaid in the “Republic of Gilead.” Handmaids are female servants, who supposedly…

Tale by Margaret Atwood is a story of freedoms, and questions what it means to truly be free. An oppressive character in the novel, a woman apart of the theologically tyrannical Gilead, named Aunt Lydia introduces the ideas of “freedom to” and “freedom from” early in Offred’s telling of her story (Atwood 24). ‘Freedom to’ is best described as being able to do what one wants to do, while ‘freedom from’ is established as a sort of protection from evils of the world: like crime and abuse. Margaret…

He is the safest place I know, he is the champion in the white hat who saves the day. This is the only way I know how to describe my husband Cory French. He is not only a protector, but a nurturer and teacher who puts his family before everything else. Cory lives his life according to his principles, he believes in honesty, hard work, leading by example, and doing the right thing. For all the years that I have known him, I have discovered many reasons to admire him. However, his patriotism and…

Native Margaret Sanger who was such an independent women became a nurse who got involved with the socialist party in New York. She was getting involved with these type of women who were having awful experiences with pregnancies. Part of those experiences led her to believe that women should be in total control of childbearing after she had witnessed her mother’s death which she believes it was due after giving birth to eleven children. Her beliefs were that self-induced abortions and difficult…

Margaret Atwood is a famous writer and poet in canada, many people and causes influenced Atwood and her work, Atwood was heavily awarded and an extraordinary writer, Atwood has been writing since a young age and has known what she has wanted to do for a long time. Atwood was impacted by many people in addition to her father. “The position of her father as a prominent entomological researcher had a profound effect on the eventual career of his daughter” (Gray 73). Her father's work inspired her…

In the Handmaid’s Tale, it begins with Offred presenting the situation that handmaids are in. Handmaids are to not have contact with any other caste in the system. They are suppose to bare children for Commanders. The handmaids are constructed by the Aunts in the households. The Aunts carry electric cattle prods for their enforcement. However, the only people with guns are the guards. The handmaids are usually given the right to leave when going for food and they must be in pairs when shopping.…

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel about a dystopian society that occurs when a conservative party takes control of a nation. Offred is the main character who is subject to this government. It changes her life in a way that completely displaces her from her old life in a negative way. Offred is shaped by her cultural surroundings. Specifically, the religious components of the world around her and the harsh government guides her thoughts and views. She is psychologically and…

When reading The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood capitalizes on the uses and misuses of language in Gilead, as well as our society. In the book, she demonstrates that language is vital for any form of power, whether in the privacy of a bedroom, or in the public streets of the republic. Atwood demonstrates how language can undermine the human condition, namely self identity, community and self expression. However, the use of language that can enrich lives, can revitalize memories or communities…

Margaret Thatcher, Often referred to as the Iron Lady by the Russians was the Prime Minister in Britain from 1979 to 1990. She was look upon by the British people with both respect and hate, either way she had a strong and successful career. Thatcher was not merely unpopular, she was very polarizing – some liked her, other disliked her. There are many reasons for why the British people hated and respected her. In the movie Pride, it is very clear why many people disliked her. Her economic…