Margaret Sanger

Can a utopia, as necessitated by its definition, actually be perfect if in insuring the future of the human race, its people are required to lose their autonomy? Both the novel The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood, and film The Island directed by Michael Bay, explore this question. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood uses a subgroup called Handmaids from a fictional society called The Republic of Gilead, as a means to examine the effects of objectification, forced servitude, and restricted…

In “The Handmaid’s Tale” the author Margaret Atwood's use of language represents how power restricts women from their freedom. In the novel the women are stripped of their real names, their voices and their rights. The Handmaid's work in a house in Gilead run by a married commander, whom they must have sex with to become pregnant and provide the household with a child. The narrator, Offred uses her language as a tool to escape the plight of her existence by manipulating things to her…

The novel The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian novel in which the protagonist Offred is cut off from any outside information and is supposed to assume that she is constantly being spied on. Offred is a handmaid and is only valued for her ability to produce offspring as the world she lives is suffering from declining birth rates. Atwood incorporates several features of dystopia such as the idea of power, totalitarianism, and war. Atwood also includes the features…

Margaret Morse Nice took an interest in nature at the young age of 13, and soon after became even more intrigued by the patterns, social aspects, and lifestyles of birds. Later in life this led to her becoming an ornithologist. Margaret was born on December 6, 1883, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was born to her mother Margaret Dungan and her father Anson D. Morse who was a professor at Amherst College. Nice was one of six brothers and sisters. After graduating from high school Margaret got a…

Offred’s struggles throughout Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale illustrates the effects that relationships and experiences have on an individual’s sense of self and hunger for freedom. The Republic of Gilead is a warped modern-day rendition of Puritan life, a “fertility cult” (Nakamura 3) under the guise of a religious society. Like the Puritans and many other historical cultures, the women of Gilead are treated like objects to be issued, thus robbed of their voice and their…

In a typical post-apocalyptic work, the world has crumbled into a state of survival that varies within each story. In the novels Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, both of the main characters are survivors in different situations. Both Snowman in Oryx and Crake and Lauren in Parable of the Sower take their surroundings and do what is necessary to thrive in what is now society during their time. In Oryx and Crake, one of the main characters named Jimmy,…

Born Margaret Hilda Roberts on October 13, 1925, Thatcher grew up in Grantham, England (Biography.com Editors). She did not grow up in a wealthy family. Her parents were the owners of a small grocery store, and their family lived on the second floor (Biography.com Editors). She grew up in a lower middle class environment, which influenced her political agenda in the future, letting her realize it was possible to work your way out of lower classes. She was introduced to politics at a rather…

by psychologists and identified in literary works. The Handmaid’s Tale is a shockingly realistic representation of the extent of oppression of women and how it can alter their psyche. By using strict religious ideals and a totalitarian government, Margaret Atwood is able to portray a society in which women are forced to not only abide to certain rules, but to perform acts against their will. Women are stripped from their families and forced to conceive children for wealthy couples. Atwood’s…

Dystopian Critical Analysis “Whether this is my end or a new beginning I have no way of knowing” (Atwood 295). In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale a young women named Offred is trapped in a dystopian microcosm being forced to do the unthinkable. In the United States an outbreak of syphilis occurred causing many people to become infertile. The population is declining and the country is scared as a whole. Then, a group of extremists break into the congress building during a session and…

Unorthodoxy In The Handmaid’s Tale In a world where everything is in order, individuality will not go unnoticed. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is set in a totalitarian theocracy called the Republic of Gilead. The main character and narrator, Offred, presents her story as an audio diary, which is transcribed into book form by Professor Pieixoto. Offred tells of her life before Gilead, when she has a steady job and a loving family; during the revolution, when she loses her job, money,…