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Margaret Atwood emphasises through her novel possible negative outcomes that may occur when an individual or society continuously live negligent lives in the twenty first century. This may include negligence of the environment, physical health, and toxic chemical usage. She uses narrative construction in The Handmaids Tale to depict one of the many grotesque situations which may arise in the upcoming future; a formation of a totalitarian theocratic society which controls political, social, and…

Every year up sixty-two percent of women in the United States use some form of birth control, according to a 2006-2010 study (Jones). In 1950 a lady in her late eighties, named Margaret Sanger, wrote the research for the first human birth control pill, raising up to fifteen thousand dollars for the research for the project. The first oral contraceptive was approved by the FDA ten years later. In 1972, The Supreme Court legalized the use of birth control for couples who are married in the United…

Jannelly Figueroa Mr. Sieker 1520-2150 20 March, 2016 Religion, Colonialism, Modernism, and Feminism in a Dystopian Society In the book, A Handmaid’s Tale, the author, Margaret Atwood, shows what a dystopian society consisting of very distinct classes is like through the eyes of a handmaid named Offred. Little by little, readers are informed on what has occurred in this state, how an act of rebellion led the breakdown of a whole nation, and to what extremes the whole formation of the society…

In Margaret Thatcher's eulogy in honor of our former United States president Ronald Reagan, Thatcher describes to us that he is a great president, a great man, and a great American. Thatcher is very respectful throughout her eulogy and shows us a side to this that we would have probably never would have guessed. Thatcher calls Rageon by the name of “Ronnie”, in line 23 letting us know that she was very close to him. When Thatcher uses the word choice ‘Ronnie”, it shows how credible and…

conference discussing the necessity of birth control use. She brought out the question of morality addressing to this topic backing up her point of view with a number of logos and ethos, as well as using some pathos. At the beginning of her speech Margaret announced that there was a survey conducted around the world that included questions related to morality of birth control. Survey applied not only to the people who would potentially support the idea of legalizing of birth control, but also…

“Do you believe a woman’s place is on the kitchen table?” (Atwood 138) While most would be outraged if this question was posed to them and others would likely cite some response similar to “this is the twenty first century” or “absolutely not”, Atwood’s dystopic novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, makes one question what real progress has been made with respect to women’s rights. Though it was written some thirty odd years ago, Atwood’s depiction of women in the oppressive Gilead society and the…

Peter C. Herman who has a PHD in English and comparative literature, starts off his essay by explaining the transition of the power from Henry VII to Henry VIII. Herman, as described throughout his essay to the readers, describes Henry VIII implementation of chivalric imagery to be a successful king over his father’s idea of leaving the court the same. I agree with Herman’s suggestion, that Henry VIII implementing of Chivalric Imagery is what made him a better king than his father as ill discuss…

The desire for social bonding is a natural instinct discovered in human beings. Particularly, female to female relationships are extremely important and valuable for development. Arguably, a female to female relationship is one of the strongest human bonds. Moreover, a positive female role model plays an important role in shaping a female’s perception on life. In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, he demonstrates the strength a female may develop through the bond to another female.…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margret Atwood explores the limited freedoms available to women in the newly formed dystopian society of Gilead. The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred, the protagonist and a Handmaid in Gilead, a society that assigns roles and divides women from one another. Gilead values women solely for their ability to fulfill certain roles assigned to them by the men. These include the ability to reproduce, and fulfill stereotypically feminine roles, such as doing housework or being a…

Margaret Attwood uses her gift for fictional writing to explore the powerful theme of control. She does this through the medium of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), which won the Governor-General’s award in 1985, and the first Arthur C. Clarke award in 1987. The dystopian novel portrays a current day North America being occupied by the religious extremists the Sons of Jacob. The religious leaders that are aiming to enact its idea of a perfect world heavily control the dystopia’s population. Attwood…