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Margaret Atwood is a famous writer and poet in canada, many people and causes influenced Atwood and her work, Atwood was heavily awarded and an extraordinary writer, Atwood has been writing since a young age and has known what she has wanted to do for a long time. Atwood was impacted by many people in addition to her father. “The position of her father as a prominent entomological researcher had a profound effect on the eventual career of his daughter” (Gray 73). Her father's work inspired her…

In the Handmaid’s Tale, it begins with Offred presenting the situation that handmaids are in. Handmaids are to not have contact with any other caste in the system. They are suppose to bare children for Commanders. The handmaids are constructed by the Aunts in the households. The Aunts carry electric cattle prods for their enforcement. However, the only people with guns are the guards. The handmaids are usually given the right to leave when going for food and they must be in pairs when shopping.…

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel about a dystopian society that occurs when a conservative party takes control of a nation. Offred is the main character who is subject to this government. It changes her life in a way that completely displaces her from her old life in a negative way. Offred is shaped by her cultural surroundings. Specifically, the religious components of the world around her and the harsh government guides her thoughts and views. She is psychologically and…

When reading The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood capitalizes on the uses and misuses of language in Gilead, as well as our society. In the book, she demonstrates that language is vital for any form of power, whether in the privacy of a bedroom, or in the public streets of the republic. Atwood demonstrates how language can undermine the human condition, namely self identity, community and self expression. However, the use of language that can enrich lives, can revitalize memories or communities…

Margaret Thatcher, Often referred to as the Iron Lady by the Russians was the Prime Minister in Britain from 1979 to 1990. She was look upon by the British people with both respect and hate, either way she had a strong and successful career. Thatcher was not merely unpopular, she was very polarizing – some liked her, other disliked her. There are many reasons for why the British people hated and respected her. In the movie Pride, it is very clear why many people disliked her. Her economic…

Offred’s constant contemplation over her words and actions when she is with other Handmaids relays her paralyzing fear of betrayal. The reader wonders whether Ofglen is really as pious as Offred judges her to be, or if her statements, like Offred’s, are just carefully constructed ways of protecting herself. Even those who do manage to find friendship in Gilead understand the dangers their friendships pose. When Offred first joins the mayday resistance, former Ofglen explains, “It isn’t good for…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, the women of the Republic of Gilead has to adhere to strict rules presented by the society. The women were represented as instruments to reproduce offsprings in order to increase the population of Gilead, rather than actual humans with feelings and emotions. This quote that I selected was occurred after the speech given by the Commander at the Prayvaganza about how the Gilead society provides women with safety and comfort and allow them to “fulfill their biological…

Professor Irving Fisher of Yale that I write you concerning a suggestion which I made to him that sometime during the International Birth Control Conference there be a round-table discussion between the Eugenics group and the friends of Birth Control… “ Margaret Sanger, Sanger Letter (E-1-1), Truman State Special Collections, March 13, 1925. The connection between American first wave feminism and the eugenics movement, at first glance seems unusual. Eugenics is largely branded in the 21st…

Margaret Atwood’s reflections on the short fiction of Alice Munro represent commentary from one Canadian literary great on another. Fittingly, Atwood provides any number of insightful reflections on Munro’s work, each of which could be the basis for further study. I would like to focus briefly on just two of these: sex and sexuality as they are represented in Munro’s works, and Atwood’s observation that in Munro’s works “a thing can be true, but not true, but true nonetheless.” Taken together,…

While the first chapter of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is not even two pages long, it introduces two key components to the story--oppression and women. The novel takes place in the Republic of Gilead, a dystopian society that has taken over the United States of America. Where there are oppressors, there are the oppressed, and this group is primarily made up of women. Offred, the narrator, gives insight into her new life, as well as the lives around her. While they are sent to Red…