Margaret Trudeau

In the short story Happing Endings, Margaret Atwood conveys several unique ways of alternating the stories theme. For instance, in scenario A the couple John and Mary live a happy life with no conflict nor problems and dithery live and die happily. While in scenario B-F Atwood gives us scenarios of different conflicts and tragedies that's not surprisingly happen in peoples everyday life, but you still end up with the same outcome as scenario A. This short story gave me mixed emotions about, see…

held the power, whether it be in a home, a church, a financial power, and even in government too. Margaret Thatcher, who was a former Prime Minister of Great Britain, was one of the first women to ever hold a position in government - of any country. “The Iron Lady”, was the first female prime minister in England, and her ideas still have a major influence over European politics today. Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on October 3, 1925 in Lincolnshire, the United Kingdom. Her parents were…

Persepolis, a well-known graphic novel, is a very gritty and dark book telling the story about life in Iran after the Islamic revolution and the oppression that is being put on the public by the government. It shows the many demonstrations that were held by the people to protest about the government and the death that has been caused by the shah. For example, the shah, on page 14, had locked about 400 people in a movie theatre and had burned the theatre to the ground along with the people…

In 1921, Margaret Sanger, and Fania Mindell, and Ethel Byrne opened America’s first birth control clinic; they were arrested for distributing “obscene materials” to their clients. Their trial led the United States to change their laws involving sex education and birth control. In 1938, their birth control clinic joined the American Birth Control League, which was renamed Planned Parenthood in 1942 because some found the original name to be offensive. They expanded their health care services in…

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down”(Atwood 223). The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian literature novel that is viewed as a cautionary tale which forewarned the oppression of women in a society known as The Republic of Gilead. The story unfolds through the narration of the protagonist, Offred, who is a Handmaid in this totalitarian society. Her character is dehumanized by others in this society while also being taught that a fertile woman’s…

The manipulation of power within The Handmaid’s Tale is very evident within the household. The power resides in position one is in at that household. Atwood uses figurative language, word repetition, and symbolism to explain the power. What use to be called the United States of America, is now the Republic of Gilead. Due to low birth rates, a society was built to try and turn around the reproduction issue. The society is set around a hierarchy. This hierarchy revolved specifically around the…

Development of the Pill was partly facilitated by Katherine McCormic, friend of Margaret Sanger, who invested over three million dollars for scientific research towards the development of oral contraception (Chesler, 432). The pills main funders consisted of mostly pharmaceutical companies and well known institutions for population control (Petchesky, 171). In the year of 1951, progestin was fist synthesized in an oral form by Carl Djerassi amongst other chemists from the University of Mexico…

The handmaid is an excellent book to read, in my opinion this book should remain on the high school curriculum because in the book they teach you the way women’s live during the war, the conduction that women’s had to go through and the impact on the women. In the book the author takes bunch of characters and talk about them. They are not any random characters, these are the characters the story revolves around. These are the people that brought change in the book. They are the one that push…

In the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the language established in Gilead promotes conformity. This language utilizes biblical and neologism appeals to get their citizens to conform and follow the new regulations. To begin with, the novel is littered with biblical names and phrases: “Jezebel”, “Martha”, “Milk and Honey”, “All Flesh”, “Lilies” and many more. All of these appellations come from the bible and are used to name the shops that the handmaid’s daily shop at, the housemaids, and the…

The biblical sphere in which Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake operates in provides little room for doubt. She brings in elements from both the Trinity and the Garden of Eden, both found in the book of Genesis and uses it in a post apocalyptic context. The novel begins with the aftermath of the destruction of the world as we know it. Narrated from the perspective of Jimmy, also known as Snowman, he is a lone survivor of what he believes is the extinction of mankind as he knows it. What is…