The Knight's Tale

In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders run a society lacking authentic emotions and relationships. They use threats of removal to the colonies and death to fulfill their desire for order. A Handmaid’s only purpose in life is to produce offspring for their Commander, and they have no connections or feelings for each other. Offred says that Handmaids like her are for “breeding purposes” and are merely “two-legged wombs…sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices” for their Commander’s…

Chapter Twenty-Five In the days following the curse being broken, the residents of Storybrooke found their lives changing rapidly. Snow White and Prince Charming were finally reunited with their daughter, Emma and their grandson, Henry. Mr. Gold, who was now going by his more colorful moniker, Rumpelstiltskin, moved out of his home with Regina and moved into a large Queen Anne Revival-style mansion with Belle. Emma made the decision to have full custody of Henry, not allowing Rumpelstiltskin or…

"Life is full of tough choices innit." This statement made by Ursula, the sea witch in Disney's Little Mermaid, sums up the plot in both the original book by Hans Christian Andersen and Disney's animated version. Both revolve around the choices of a young girl seeking love. The stories are similar, but have striking differences. Desire, cost and sacrifice are at the heart of both accounts of a young mermaid becoming a woman, but while one story shows growth and responsibility, the other…

characteristics. Murasaki from Tale of Genji was a character brought up as a lady, having been taught to be trustful and elegant by Genji, the man who “adopted” her. However, Dai-Yu grew up being proud and cautious of her surroundings, always looking out for herself until she meets Bao-yu. Although both female characters have different upbringings and personalities, their fates end in an ironic way with those same attributes pushing their loved one away. In the Tale of Genji…

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian world of Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale, we are introduced to a totalitarian world in which fertile women are captured and it is their duty to have children for elite couples. Throughout the novel, the primary handmaid and protagonist, Offred, reminiscences on her former life as she reveals the realities of her new life with a somber tone. I argue that Offred being stripped of her purpose and being suppressed into someone she is not intensifies her desire for…

Did you ever have the desire to do something, even though it felt wrong? In the fictional novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, by Margaret Atwood, the narrator lives in a dystopian world and gives her second thoughts about staying. Knowing that she will not go back to her old life, has her thinking about the decisions she will make. Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” shows that temptation leads to risky actions as shown through the narrator’s flashback, the foreshadow of the black van, and the…

The Canterbury tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer is an interesting and fascinating book. It explores the tales of the people going on a religious journey, “The pardoners tale” and “wife of bath tale”are both compelling and engaging books.The movie “The Wolf of wall street” is similar to the plot and storyline of “The pardoners tale” and “The wife of bath”. The pardoners tale. The wife of bath and The wolf of wall street explains the allegory in the life of the characters. The pardoner loved to…

When a You Becomes an It Women are far too often torn to shreds, their personalities, their minds, and their bodies. The Handmaid’s Tale takes women, splits them a part, and pulls out their control, leaving the remains to be seen as an object. Throughout The Handmaid’s Tale, Margert Atwood satirizes the body of women in order to illustrate the notion that all they are, is an it. The Handmaid’s were once considered “an instrument,” in which they played a tune of good nature and choice (Atwood…

eoffery Chaucer, the greatest English poet of his lifetime, is estimated to have been born in 1343. Throughout his life, Chaucer became a page in a royal house, a soldier, a diplomat, and even a royal clerk. Geoffery was born in to a middle class family, he was the son of a merchant. During the beginning of his life time, Chaucer worked for the wife of Lionel of Antwerp, the daughter-in-law of Edward III, as page. During his time as a soldier for the English Army in France, Chaucer was captured…

The narrator, Offred, describes how she and other handmaids slept inside a gymnasium in the new nation of Gilead. There are two Aunt, Sara and Elizabeth, who has cattle prods around their waist in order to put fear into the handmaids. The women are not allowed to speak with one another so they must resort to lip reading when the aunts are not looking. The handmaids were allowed two walks a day around the former football field. While the women are walking , the guards stand with their backs…