The Franklin's Tale

The life of Offred In the dystopian novel, titled “The Handmaids Tale” by Margaret Atwood, we see the time when the totalitarian society of Gilead took power over the country, how it controlled the people that lived within its borders, and the difficulties they experienced through the use of characterization. The life of Offred and other handmaids just like her are made miserable due to the rule over their bodies, and they have no easy way to escape it. The society of Gilead can be labeled as…

advancements in women’s rights before the existence of the feminist movement, leading to the definition of feminism to be moulded over time. There have been arguments in favour of the Wife of Bath — one of the protagonists in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales — being one of the first feminist characters in literature as she breaks the mould of a typical feminine figure with her her unique insight and opinions. While the Wife of Bath herself believes she is empowering in her ideas and actions…

Doing the visual literary analysis assignment was worth doing. It was worth doing it because I learned that conveying a message to the audience is tricky. The way me and my partner decided to do it on Feminism is by first reading our essays that we had to write about the book. We both wrote about how women don’t have any right in Gilead, we wrote about how women suffer knowing they are only value if they can be pregnant. We both realize that we had a lot of points in our essay on Feminism. Then…

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…

Super Smash Bros. Peach vs. Pauline Gian:Go Peach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Giana:PAULINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lauren:They forced me to choose. :/ One day in the Smash Hotel, Mario was watching the entrance,as usual. Then outside was a beautiful girl with long brown hair. Gian:She ain’t pretty (read in sassy voice) Giana:She so pretty!! (also sassy voice) Lauren:Ganondorf is the prettiest princess of all. Ganondorf:Thank you I guess? Lauren:I was kidding. Ganondorf:Oh :( Giana:Oh stop let’s finish…

The retelling of fairy tales has become a popular trend that allow us to view our beloved fairy tales in a new light. Cinderella has been reinvented multiple times throughout history, and can be found across multiple cultures. In the novel, Ella Enchanted, author Gail Carson Levine shows us a modern adaptation of the tale that reinforces from the original, but at the same time differs greatly. The protagonist Ella, shares similar events and qualities with Cinderella, but they also have…

literary firsts, the most predominant being the shift from scholarly reading to a more universal style of tales written in Middle English, introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer, a timelessly renowned poet. The Canterbury Tales, considered the most important literary piece of the Medieval period written in 1392 by Chaucer, is considered his greatest achievement although the work is fragmented. The Tales begins in Chaucer’s day, the fourteenth century, in a quintessential English town named Southwark.…

The Canterbury Tales: “The Pardoner’s Tale” is a lot like many people we know today. He is that person that is quick to tell someone they are doing something wrong; whereas in return he is just as guilty. How is one supposed to obey and learn from someone who is conducted from pure evil and has no concern of their well-being? Chaucer gave the Pardoner very bad personality traits that mold the type of person he is from the very beginning. The Pardoner is portrayed throughout this tale as a very…

In the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” It has been proven time and time again that humans are social creatures at heart; without meaningful connections to others, they will wither and perish. Despite this, many are unable to forge such connections, and instead place boundaries around themselves, like many characters do in…

The book Never Cry Wolf By: Farley Mowat came out in the 1960’s. The book is about how Mowat comes out to explore the forest of northern Canada. He calls it Wolf House Bay. Then he meets this wolf pack that he will be spying on for a couple of months. He soon gets really attached to them and starts to give them names like Lupine, Uncle Albert, Angelina, and George. Farley Mowat uses a lot of logos in his writing to persuade everybody that the wolves are not savage killers. When he made it too…