Margaret Wente

When people think of someone being held against their will they associate that with people being treated like property, but that is not the case in the book Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. It is a story about a dystopian society where everything is regulated and people do not have the ability to make free choices. The story takes place from a point of view of a specific handmaid named Offred, a handmaid is a woman who is brought into a household for the sole reason of reproduction. They are…

Susan Judy is a Canadian writer of young adult literature. The novel “Alice I Think” is novel that resemblance a self-discovery. This novel is narrated by Alice’s modern-day journal entries to tell the story of Alice as she struggles with being independent-minded. Alice was raised by parents who are hippies and all about expressing their feelings. When Alice reads the book The Hobbit, she decides that she is a hobbit. Allice get into the characters a lot this is both emotionally and physically,…

Action and Reaction Our world, and lives, are full of trials and tribulations. Its our choices, actions, or lack thereof when facing these difficulties that influence the direction of our lives. Rene Denfeld explores this wonderfully in her novel The Enchanted. Her characters all face trials, of varying degrees of intensity, that not only shape them as people, but also, the direction of their lives. She delves into this process thoroughly through her character of the white-haired boy. He…

In the book “Handmaid’s Tale”, written by Margaret Atwood, explore Offred’s view on the world and how totalitarianism and theocratic is now taking over the United States because of the low reproduction rates they created the Handmaid’s to give birth to elite couple who are having trouble conceiving. The women are subjective to prostitution, pornography and violence during the republic of Gilead. As the author states “Atwood’s protagonist, Offred, is a Handmaid—a fallen woman who is forced to…

The Jewel. In the series “The Jewel” by Amy Ewing, the dystopian genre shows itself through many dystopian characteristics such as a totalitarian government using propaganda to control its citizens. In these novels propaganda contributes to controlling the citizens and crushing dissent. Propaganda is used to hide the murder of surrogates through unwanted pregnancies with babies they are not compatible with. It is also used to convince the citizens that everything is fine and that the royalty…

Anita Desai exhibits a strong inclination towards the existentialist interpretation of the human predicamentin her novels.Chracters are "individuals for whom aloneness alone,is the sole natural condition,aloneness alone the treasure worth treasuring",as Desai once said in an interview.Her novel,Fire on the Mountain revolves around the inner lives of its three protagonists,Nanda Kaul,Raka and Ila Das,who are embodiments of alienation experienced by the individual in a hostile world. Her novel,…

Margaret Atwood Analysis of the writing style: Best known for her books, Margaret Atwood is perceived as one of Canada's most noticeable and productive contemporary journalists. Atwood's notoriety, be that as it may, likewise lays on her voluminous commitments to the class of verse and short story. In addition, as a basic expert, student of history, and writer, Atwood's compositions have showed up in an extensive variety of academic material spreading over from school and college course…

The Oxford dictionary defines identity as “The characteristics of determining who or what a person or thing is”. The Hebrew word “Galut”, “initially referred to the setting of colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile”, when translated into Greek leads us to the etymology of the term “diaspora”, based on “speiro” (to sow) and the preposition “dia (over)” and in Ancient Greece it referred to “colonization” and “migration.” (Shuval, 2003) Thus, diaspora refers to the…

The Wrongful Extinction of Sensuality In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, she creates a dystopian society where women are valued for their sexual functions instead of their attributes. Her novel is set in a post-United States era in a time where men control everything, from the jobs to women’s bodies. Offred, previously married, is a handmaid of a powerful Commander and his wife. It is her job to provide the couple with a child. Society has been trained to believe that all eroticism is…

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury where the government send fireman to burn all book or any literature. In Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood a man name Crake is a well-known scientist and creates a pill that genocide the human race except Jimmy who then become Snowman. In this two book shows how knowledge and government can change the human’s evolution. Crake isn’t the protagonist of Oryx and Crake but he’s the protagonist “Jimmy” best friend. Crake was a smart boy in high school but then…