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    Oryx and Crake is a post-apocalyptic world of Snowman and Crackers. The story itself is between the marriage of extreme science and capitalism. The post-apocalyptic world of Oryx and Crake is the consequences of a company playing with God. A giant corporation who uses science to the extreme in order to take over God in nature. The idea of perfection is embedded deep within the corporation’s mind. Overtime, the word perfection has been distorted. The perfection that human seeks has changed into a…

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    Suffering Roles In the novel, there's an ambition to a society that is horrifying in different ways. In Ms. Atwood’s book The Handmaid's Tale, they bare with a society in which women’s have no right to anything. It creates a region that makes it impossible for someone to live in and it makes them vuniberal. Just imagine, you live in a city in which everybody is against you and your rights and you can't do anything about it because you’re a woman, you’re considered inferior. For example, how…

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    In her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood explores the poor ideals and horrors of a futuristic patriarchal society. The story is set in Massachusetts at an unspecified time in the future and tells the story of a young lady’s struggles through a change in the way of life after America was taken over by another governing body, Gilead. By Gilead’s traditional rules, women were not allowed to work and own property, and men were far superior to the women. In the story, procreation was…

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    The handmaid’s tale: A dystopian society In the novel the Handmaid’s tale written by Margaret Atwood women are not granted the rights to Freedom of speech and freedom of choice. Such book takes place in the republic of Gilead, a country ruled by a totalitarian government. Women are regulated to the seconds, their individuality is stripped away, and are valued only for their functionality. The Handmaid’s tale portrays a society at its worst, it shows an example of country in where male…

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    arose mainly during the 20th century. Such forms of literature were there to criticize the classical way of thinking and also critique aspects of what is wrong in the 20th century. “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald, and “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood are respectively modernist and postmodernist forms of literature. They are both novels, which critique the idea of a hierarchal system, the oppression of feminism and portray characters who live in a world devoid of morality and…

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    Sour Love I am still reading the book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, this story has been very interesting and suspenseful. The book is based off of Nick and Amy Dunne’s relationship and Amy’s disappearance. One thing about this book that I’ve noticed that is quite odd is the way Amy sees her husband Nick and how Nick treats Amy. In this story Amy provides lots of examples of her and Nick’s relationship and her true feelings for Nick. Nick truly does care for Amy but the way he shows it Amy…

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    I have a quote that I want you to read and then tell me if you know who wrote it: “Enjoying what we do is not always a feeling of enjoyment; it is sometimes the gritty resolution a man or woman shows in doing what must be done — perhaps with inner dread and yet without whimpering self-pity. I like the phrase, “without whimpering self-pity.” It sounds much more dramatic and important than the phrase, “without complaining.” I also like the phrase, “gritty resolution.” Was there anything that you…

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    Shamhat The Harlot Essay

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    Shamhat, the harlot, is sent with a hunter in order for the man Enkidu to be civilized and for the animals in the steppe to reject him. Shamhat does this in the way befitting her profession and engages in sexual acts with Enkidu for a total of six days and seven nights. Once they are finished Enkidu attempts to rejoin the animals but he has changed. The animals notice the change and run away from Enkidu and because of his activities with Shamhat he cannot run after them, although because of her…

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    The Character Analysis of Offred in “The Handmaid’s Tale” The main character of “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood is a handmaid named Offred. Offred is not a real name but just a nickname given to handmaids who belong to a certain commander (man only), in her case Fred. She wears a uniform of a handmaid, a red clock covering ankles, gloves, and a white veil covering almost half of the face, which covers the whole body. The place of the story is somewhere inside of the USA that the…

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    Baroness Thatcher, the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom. She was famously called the Iron Lady. She was born on October 13 1925 and she was the Conservative Party’s leader. 1979 she was elected as prime minister. Her beliefs and policies caused her to become unpopular with her party and many citizens of the UK. Baroness Thatcher resigned from her position due to her unpopularity in 1990. She died on April 8 2013 at the age of 87 years old. Similarly Boris Johnson is also a…

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