Margaret Mead

rebelling against imprisonment. I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind. I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception.” Similarly, in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic republic of Gilead has created a controlled society where Offred and her friend Moira, along with other fertile women, are being used as surrogate mothers for childless Wives and Commanders, who…

Margaret Wente’s globe and mail article on the plight of “today’s children being overly protected from failure that they’ll never be able to handle the stresses of the adult world” is a highly opinionated and suspect take on how “reality will soon bite” (par. 22) a seemingly oblivious and obnoxious generation composed of “snowflake children” (par. 23), due to “overprotective” (par. 7) and “rescuing” (par. 8) parents who are “stuck to them like glue” (par. 16). While Wente does make an…

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter who according to Rolling Stones is “ one of the greatest songwriters of all time”. In the book “The Unspeakable” author Meghan Daum discusses the Joni Mitchell problem which is fans or non-fans, liking or disliking Mitchell's art for the wrong reasons. We can also call the fans and non-fans consumers. Daum makes the claim that Mitchell’s art can be interpreted in one way. Daum says the consumers see Mitchell as a romantic but to Daum that doesn’t…

How does the writer make the ending so dramatically effective? - The plight of Madame Loisel  (How does she perceive her life to be? Draw upon examples here!)  (What does her life become? Why is this ironic?) - The relationship between Madame + Monsieur  (Why does he seem so pleased with himself for the Party invitation?)  (He uses all his money not just to help buy her an outfit but also to buy a real diamond necklace)  (Why is he so content in life?) - Symbolism of the necklace  (How…

Democracy Lost Suddenly, having a new change in the Gilead people’s society while having their lives being ripped of them, Atwood presents a new type a Dystopian fiction. Offred is the main character who goes through terrifying times throughout her new, unwanted life. The primary situation that Offred and her peers go through is the struggle for freedom and sexism. Offred was brainwashed and manipulated into doing activities that are only beneficial to the Commander, Aunt Lydia, or the society…

The Handmaid’s tale is a feminist science fiction novel by a Canadian, and feminist writer Margaret Atwood. The story depicts psychological and physical struggle of a woman named Offred due to suppression of women by men in her society. Thus, the title Handmaid’s tale is representative of the life of Offred, the Handmaid or a female servant. This novel vividly portrays the cruelty of biological and social categorization. Handmaid’s tale takes place in a futuristic fictional society where…

One’s imagination is one’s reality, the mindset and possibility an event or action can be. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the novel presents a dystopian literature that emits an alternate reality of life. The story is gives off the government being broken and the society itself completely changed to the ways a few wanted which stripped women’s rights, United States of America changed to Republic of Gilead, and the Gilead made some women into Handmaids which used just for…

Option 3: In Hanife, how does Soysal deal with the issue of “honour killing”? Hanife (2010), is one of the famous short stories of Sevgi Soysal who was a Turkish- German female writer and was imprisoned for political reasons, during a military coup in Turkey in 1971. Soysal deals with the issue of honour killing by examining the different perception of honour and its importance and the place of women in the view of society, through the symbolism of the images such as the poplar tree and the…

The dystopian novel, The handmaid’s tale, written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, is based after the government calls off the constitutional and begin to build a ‘christian society’ that replaces the US, now called Gilead. The handmaid’s tale explores many different themes, one of which is surrounding the contrast of gender roles and why they are represented this way. Women and men have completely different titles they are chosen to have based on certain characteristics and backgrounds. Gilead…

In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the reader is introduced into a futuristic, dystopian society that is built on the remnants of the United States, called Gilead. Throughout the novel, Atwood uses satire to mock and warn the United States of the danger in the strongly held political opinions in the 1980’s, when the book was written. Atwood extrapolates the ideas to their extremes, showing the danger of their acceptance. The absurdity and outrageousness of her exaggerations give the novel…