Margaret MacDonald

Finally, Lewis uses his Biblical understanding of Heaven to signify that Heaven is immeasurably more important when in comparison to either Earth or Hell. The substance of Heaven is truer and the reality of Heaven much deeper than the temporal substance of Earth. Lewis demonstrates this through his description of Heaven and the corresponding description of Hell. He writes; I had the sense of being in a larger space, perhaps even a larger sort of space, than I had ever known before: as if the sky…

views of a perfect community. Although these ideas of a utopia are portrayed both similarly and differently throughout these novels, each story shares similar guiding principles such as gender, education, and work. The Republic of Plato by Francis MacDonald Cornford demonstrates that everyone’s idea of justice can be different. Throughout the novel, readers discover Plato’s idea of dikaiosyne. He explains that both the community and the individual can be just but the community is the bigger of…

wasn’t a physical connection between her and her husband, but since she knew there were people out there that were at risk, she wanted to help them. Also she wanted women have control over their bodies and so they can prevent unplanned pregnancy. For Margaret Sanger, after the death of Sadie Sachs, she was so sad and mad and she knew that she couldn’t continue like this, she needed to find a way to help mothers from having too many children and so risking their lives. She knew that it was…

Margaret Sanger helped thousands of women by combating laws that controlled women’s access to birth control. Margaret Sanger’s birth control clinic in New York attracted women from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts (Wardell 740). Now thanks to her efforts women across the country have access to birth…

The novel of Oryx and Crake is a science fiction developed by Margaret Atwood in 2003. It describes a possible future of human beings associated with the elements of misusing bioengineering science powers, death of literature and post-apocalyptic scenarios. It can be identified as an anti-utopia novel that believes an ostensibly peaceful society with various kinds of uncontrollable evils inside. The stories of this novel unfold with the two-clued structure associated with the interactions among…

The Struggle of Women In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the women in Gilead appear to have diminished rights and a limited amount of freedom. These women have lives that resemble a lifestyle similar to the women who lived prior to women’s suffrage, even though this novel takes place in a futuristic time. Some of these women, like Offred, remember the past and long for a time when they can be free again. However, for many of the women, they will never understand what it is…

Throughout history, society has looked at the role of woman with a domestic and submissive perspective. Women were the property of men, and were there to pleasure him, bear his children, and relieve him of the domestic duties. Throughout time the role of women in society has evolved; however, women still struggle to have full control of their own bodies. As Adrienne Rich said (Of Women Born):"Women are controlled by lashing us to our bodies." The theme of women being lashed to their bodies has…

the knots in the stomach feeling. It is the second thoughts and the reason one limits themselves. Fear is often seen as a weakness. Ultimately, fear controls people. In the highly controversial novel, The Handmaids Tale written in 1985 by author Margaret Atwood, Atwood creates a dystopian society where fear along with ignorance and abasement control the people within The Republic of Gilead. With the newly functioning society, the government strikes fear daily into the lives of citizens as a way…

any people overlook the privileges we have today, however, these “rights” can be taken away at any time. This is what happened to the people of the fictional city, Gilead, in “The Handmaids Tale” by Margret Atwood. In this dystopian world we follow Offred as she describes the new totalitarian society. Offred compares the new world to how it was previously in a series of flashbacks, describing the fall of democracy and equality. Over time the rights of the people were taken away, stripping the…

position in the field of visual anthropology due to “justifying the use of photography on a massive scale, [and citing] the camera 's imperviousness to progressive theoretical sophistication” during her field work in Bali (Jacknis 1988, 161). That is, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali incorporate over 200 unpublished photographs between 1936 and 1939 that the couple took (Jacknis 1988). In addition, both couples were reflexive and combine their methodologies in the research. For…