Margaret Tudor

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In the book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, desire is key. Throughout the novel, desire controls a majority of people and how they behave. Offred risks her life when she goes to Jezebel’s with the Commander. Offred risks her life when she sneaks off to Nick’s room every night, even though she is forbidden from doing so. Serena Joy, the Commander’s wife, risks her life when she desires a child so much that she suggests to Offred that she and Nick try to have a child together which is…

"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must feel free to follow wherever the search may lead us," (Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.). Throughout the book Oryx and Crake, written by Margret Atwood, many experiments and scientific discoveries have not turned out the way the creator(s) have intended them to. There are handful examples throughout the story that shows that knowledge is a double edged sword. These examples include: the Crakers, the Pigoons, and the BlyssPluss pill. To begin, the Crakers…

To hold people to oppression, you must convince them first that they need to be oppressed. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian novel, takes substantial efforts to depict this very scenario. She portrays a patriarchal society where women’s bodies are exploited, reading and writing by women are forbidden, and women are strictly monitored and oppressed. Along with other subjects, Atwood explores the social myths defining femininity, the social and economic exploitation of women, as…

These articles cited above were written before the television show was even a thought and before The Handmaid’s Tale was extremely relevant to what is happening in today’s world. In an interview by TIME magazine with Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss, the actress of Offred in the television show, talk a little about what the book and television show’s ideals really mean with today’s society. The interview starts with TIME asking why the show now? Atwood responds with, “The control of women and…

At first, I did not expect much of The Handmaid’s Tale. Bearing the word “Tale” in its title, I initially thought the book would be a simple fantasy novel, far from reality, but I was wrong. The Handmaid’s Tale was one of the only fiction books that got me thinking about real life. The situations addressed in the book are not as far-fetched as they seem and I learned a lot about the fictional gloomy future it presents. Aside from what the author presents to the reader, the way the author…