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    Thatcher effectively persuades her audience of former president Ronald Reagan's impressive legacy. Through the use of numerous literary devices, an anecdote and a convincing tone, Thatcher brings forth the impactful events that Reagan caused and instills an atmosphere of unity within the American people. Within her eulogy, Thatcher utilizes a plethora of literary devices to conclude the success of Reagan’s presidency. The first sentence includes an anaphora, as Thatcher repeats “great” to…

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    In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the female protagonist, Offred, is shaped by her society into a tool used solely for reproduction in order to serve the patriarchy. Comparably, the female protagonist, Furiosa, from the film Mad Max: Fury Road is shaped by her society into a tool used by the patriarchy to keep inhumane control over the people. Even so, both protagonists react to their objectification in contrasting ways. In the Gilead Age, women do not have as much…

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    This is a novel where the main character, Offred tells her side of the story sort of like a diary through The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margret Atwood, which took place in what used to be Cambridge, Massachusetts. Offred had a very rough life; everything she loved had been rip away from her hands, she forced into participating a training center. Where many young women are being brainwashed into clueless puppets and turn into handmaids. Handmaids are composed of fertile women that must help bear…

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    In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood explores the idea of… Offred is a Handmaid whose sole purpose in the society of Gilead is to reproduce by having sex with a man known as the Commander. However, the Commander has a designated Wife known as Serena Joy, and the Wives of the Commanders cannot produce children due to infertility. These two women, existing both separately and together in a lifeless world with a declining birth rate, interact in subtle yet strained ways. In a particular scene…

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    the Commander, and her courage to join the subversives. I love this quote because it is so simplistic, but the message it holds is so meaningful. Margaret Atwood wrote this book to warn future generations, to prevent our society from becoming the toxic world that is Gilead and this quote sums that up in four simple Latin words. With this book, Margaret Atwood is telling everyone to never let the bastards grind you…

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    Clearly the British have been a thorn in the side of the republican Nationalist and members of the IRA. One person however really sent them into to disarray and that woman’s name is Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher was the British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first and only female Prime Minister, which would pave the way for female politicians in Great Britain. Her nickname the Iron Lady would resonate with world because of her conservative values and her quest to end…

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    Her shocking, revealing story is brought home by a complex, and effective, narrative technique. Works Cited and Consulted Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Anchor Books: New York, New York, 1985. Conboy, Sheila C. "Scripted, Conscripted, and Circumscribed: Body Language in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Eds. Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. Albany : State…

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    Throughout all of human history language has been a powerful tool used by all in some shape or form. Language varies in forms, even encompassing the primitive cave paintings from ancient times or the verbal speech used by people today. Despite its many forms, language is always able to empower the wielder. Humans have used it against each other for centuries to gain power over others. Language is liberating and language is oppressive. Some have freed thousands of people with an outstanding…

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    Ethics In Oryx And Crake

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    While the definition of ethics may be different in the eyes of different people, most individuals have a certain limit to their behaviour. An exception to this statement is none other than one of the main characters in the novel, Crake. In Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Crake is a character who has a bright, young mind in his earlier years, but seems to have a gradually increasing obsession with his idea of perfectionism as the years go by. Over many years, Crake realizes that there are many…

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    Freedom and individual rights are essential for living a joyful life. Unfortunately, in the novel The Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood, people live in a close and controlled society. In neither novel, the protagonists have no right of deciding on what they want to do with their lives. For example, Equality 7-2521, the protagonist of the Anthem yearns of becoming a scientist, but is commanded to be a Street Sweeper by a government that fears his independence of mind.…

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