Science fiction

Tsar Nicholas II's reaction to the peaceful protest the workers staged, his inability to meet the demands of his people, and the rising prices and lowering conditions that came with World War I all led to the inevitable- a revolution. "Peasants burned the estates of their landlords, destroying everything they could get their hands on." (As It Was Lived: 4-18) This was an accurate portrayal of the behavior of the peasants after the events of the 1905 revolution, also called ‘Bloody Sunday'.…

Offred is a slave, she is a slave to an internal war within herself and an outside war that she has no control over. Offred is a handmaid. During a time of war her family and her were separated and she was given a choice. She could either choose to go to the colonies and clean up nuclear waste, or she could be a handmaid and give her body up for the wars purpose. The purpose of being a handmaid is to be an instrument, to bare children for the commanders and their wives. Offred only wants to find…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, we can see that the author, Margaret Atwood, displays a vast array of ways female power is used in this new republic, Gilead. Despite this notable idea that we attain immediately when reading this novel, about the loss of individuality amongst women, if we actually look deeper in to the text we see something that is different. Different women obtain different powers and some, both in this fictional society of Gilead and in today’s world, obtain none at all. First,…

Fire Through the events of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë utilizes fire as a mechanism of providing both light and destruction to the main characters of the story. Because Thornfield is often depicted as being an old establishment, its inhabitants have to employ some sense of light and through fire, they see fit. It was extremely necessary for when the “party” guests were residing in the house and heard a frightful ruckus on the floor above. In the means of destruction, fire stood as both the…

A young woman walks down the street, completely covered in cloth from head to toe. As a female, she is considered beneath all of the men around her. She is only permitted to leave the house under certain restrictions, such as retrieving groceries. Most importantly, conceiving a child is considered the most valuable contribution she can make to society. While the scenario sounds familiar, she surprisingly does not reside in Gilead. As a dystopian novel, “A Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood…

Superman, Supergirl, The Flash, Wonder Woman and Spiderman. These are all heros, and they have done a plethora of things to gaian that significant title. Mitty Blake, the main character in Code Orange a fiction novel by Caroline B. Cooney, wanted to be on that list of heros. When readers met Mitty Blake, he was sixteen year old living in New York City who cared about nothing but music, his school work was never done nor did he even know what it was. Mitty Blake was writing a report on viruses…

they chose Roger, so Heinz had to wear his mother's old dresses. It didn’t stop there though, Heinz’s parents wanted him to be just like Roger, they wanted him to play all these sports and be the coolest kid in school. Where as he just wanted study science and keep to himself. Heinz’s parents often said that they were embarrassed by him, even though he was trying his hardest to prove himself to them. Once Heinz was all grown up, he went of to Danville to study evil, but he failed all his…

Search for a more perfect world has led various writers to imagine their own ideas of utopia. Aldous Huxley, with both a scientific and literary background, wrote Brave New World in 1932 (Congdon). This book takes the reader to London six hundred years into the future. This stable world is filled with comfort, safety, and control. Everything is industrialized. Perhaps at first glance, this description may appeal to the reader, but a closer look reveals an undesirable and frightening world.…

Introduction: Have you ever predicted what life would be like in the future? In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley did just that. A lot of the predictions from this book has actually happened or is starting to happen in our time period. Things like fake happiness and family break ups are occurring more and more and although we have not gotten completely to the point of where the characters in the book got to we may not be far behind them in getting there. Analysis Portion: Aldous Huxley…

Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro 1947. He had expressed a passion for writing that his parents despised. He later was enrolled in multiple mental institutes and he managed to escape three times. He was finally released at the age of twenty and he got admitted to law school for his parent’s sake. He soon dropped out and engaged in drug abuse and lived like a hippie. He eventually went on a spiritual pilgrimage in Spain which changed his life. He had written the book Pilgrimage afterward…