Margaret Edson

Offred’s constant contemplation over her words and actions when she is with other Handmaids relays her paralyzing fear of betrayal. The reader wonders whether Ofglen is really as pious as Offred judges her to be, or if her statements, like Offred’s, are just carefully constructed ways of protecting herself. Even those who do manage to find friendship in Gilead understand the dangers their friendships pose. When Offred first joins the mayday resistance, former Ofglen explains, “It isn’t good for…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, the women of the Republic of Gilead has to adhere to strict rules presented by the society. The women were represented as instruments to reproduce offsprings in order to increase the population of Gilead, rather than actual humans with feelings and emotions. This quote that I selected was occurred after the speech given by the Commander at the Prayvaganza about how the Gilead society provides women with safety and comfort and allow them to “fulfill their biological…

Professor Irving Fisher of Yale that I write you concerning a suggestion which I made to him that sometime during the International Birth Control Conference there be a round-table discussion between the Eugenics group and the friends of Birth Control… “ Margaret Sanger, Sanger Letter (E-1-1), Truman State Special Collections, March 13, 1925. The connection between American first wave feminism and the eugenics movement, at first glance seems unusual. Eugenics is largely branded in the 21st…

Margaret Atwood’s reflections on the short fiction of Alice Munro represent commentary from one Canadian literary great on another. Fittingly, Atwood provides any number of insightful reflections on Munro’s work, each of which could be the basis for further study. I would like to focus briefly on just two of these: sex and sexuality as they are represented in Munro’s works, and Atwood’s observation that in Munro’s works “a thing can be true, but not true, but true nonetheless.” Taken together,…

While the first chapter of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is not even two pages long, it introduces two key components to the story--oppression and women. The novel takes place in the Republic of Gilead, a dystopian society that has taken over the United States of America. Where there are oppressors, there are the oppressed, and this group is primarily made up of women. Offred, the narrator, gives insight into her new life, as well as the lives around her. While they are sent to Red…

Context: After the exhausting birth event, Offred comes home to the Commander’s household all wiped out, only to find herself asleep. With the help of Cora, Offred is wakened up for dinner and realizes that Cora really hopes for the arrival of yet another baby, meaning Offred’s. Meanwhile, this conversation is going on, Offred remembers Nick informing her that the Commander wants to see her in his office. A meeting that surrounds itself around playing Scrabble and a goodbye kiss, in favor by the…

Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” depicts a dystopian society in the Republic of Gilead in which the government considers women as property and valuable if their ovaries are viable. The new society now stresses the conformity of women in the household and reinstated domestic roles which they must accept. The “Colonies”, an area that supports limited life, and group hangings exist as scare tactics to suppress any rebellion amongst the handmaids and in the household. This society is believed…

where he was interested in drawing programmes at the Glasgow School of Art as well as trained as an architecture under John Hutchinson, before transferring to the practise of Honeyman and Keppie. Meeting four artists within school: Herbert MacNair, Margaret and Frances Macdonald, they would collaborated on experimental designs together for furniture, metalwork, and illustration.…

Memories are things that everyone has and they are constantly replacing one another as life goes on. The book, The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margret Atwood, is about a futuristic way that people live their lives. The protagonist of this book, Offred, is one of the many handmaids in the society of Gilead and she is forced to be a handmaids and has to deal with the problems that being a handmaid lead to. One of the main problems she faces is trying to keep the memories she created before she became a…

currently is abundantly high. Margaret Sanger, a sex educator, nurse, and American birth control activist, whom acknowledged the need to inform women on the self-control of childbirth gave a speech in 1921, “A Moral Necessity for Birth Control.” Sanger disputes that the understanding of “contraceptive techniques” would not only benefit families as a whole, but would also give women the right to control her body (Sanger). Meanwhile conveying this speech, Margaret controls the way the…