Tall tale

Memories are things that everyone has and they are constantly replacing one another as life goes on. The book, The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margret Atwood, is about a futuristic way that people live their lives. The protagonist of this book, Offred, is one of the many handmaids in the society of Gilead and she is forced to be a handmaids and has to deal with the problems that being a handmaid lead to. One of the main problems she faces is trying to keep the memories she created before she became a…

A fairy tale is generally known as a youngsters' tale about magical animals be that as it may, after some time, fairy tales have been thought to be false stories intended to trap individuals. These are anecdotal stories that include enchantment and fanciful animals, creatures and terrains. With respect to the setting, it is not point by point all through the entire story. The characters are one-dimensional figures; the group of onlookers can just see this kind of character from one view, the…

changeling appears in this film by the child who isn’t hers and appears alike in features of her actual son. The child is replaced by a “substitute child” and is later discovered. Further down the movie, the mother discovers that this young boy isn’t as tall and is circumcised which her son isn’t. The films’ title is named Changeling to capture the folklore in the child, but the films’ main focus is the kidnapping and murders. This shows that changelings are not forgotten just hidden behind…

Cinderella with a Y Chromosome Fairy tales have been communicated to one another for centuries; they all tell a story of each culture’s views by the way people convey it. There are many diverse fairy tales, but one of the most iconic, which has been around for a long time, is Cinderella. One version from the 1960s is a film entitled Cinderfella. In this comedy, Jerry Lewis plays Cinderfella, a male Cinderella. I chose this text because I feel it is a good example of Linda Parsons’ reference to…

Here is a ye olde tale Once upon a time, in the magical land of Yang lived a young girl named Chino. She lived along with her family and a best friend named Vamsi, he was a head knight in the king’s own personal guard. Chino hoped one day that she could be the best story teller in the entire middle earth, like her aunt Rona, who was a silver tongue. Silver tongues are a race of magical story tellers, who had the power of weaving the best stories ever heard in all of the three worlds, and they…

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe was narrated by an unknown narrator. We assume he was a man mainly for the reason that he said, “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing” (1). The story was supposedly about the narrator’s fear of an old man’s eye, but I rather see it as the narrator not fearing the eye itself, but fearing how the eye made him feel. For one thing, the narrator had a fear of the old man’s eye because it resembled a vulture’s eye. “He had the eye of a vulture –a pale blue…

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…

At their essence, all stories are the same; from George Lucas ' Star Wars and Grimm 's fairy tales to The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Homer 's The Odyssey. Granted, at face value, there might seem little common ground between Luke Skywalker and Cinderella, or between Dorothy Gale and Odysseus. However, every story plays towards certain experiences-- a progression of trials, triumphs and occasional failures that allow the hero to develop and overcome adversity. This process, called the Hero…

more entertaining and acceptable to modern audiences. Likewise, in the fiction novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, relates to the values of the Puritans who settled in New England Massachusetts while also relating to modern audiences with TV’s, cars, and planes, which can be seen as more towards the present day than relating to the 16th century America. It can be seen that The Handmaid’s Tale resembles the time from when the puritans lived in New England, but in reality the theocratic…