The Knight's Tale

challenges she faces only to be victorious in the end. Women, such as African American slaves, can relate to Offred because these women have dealt with verbal abuse, inequality, and sexual encounters with their owners. A student described The Handmaid 's Tale as “one of the most fascinating and compelling novels she had ever read. She became so wrapped up in the novel that she found it difficult to put the novel down. She felt she was alongside Offred, experiencing everything that Atwood 's…

Fairy tales have become so established in the present day that we almost feel as though we are born with them. Almost anyone could recite the story of Jack and the Beanstalk or Cinderella, though not many of us would be able to identify where we originally learnt the tale. Predominantly, picture books and fairy tales are used to inform and entertain children, with illustrations being particularly useful as a way of communicating beyond language barriers, helping the reader make sense of phrases…

handmaid’s become walking billboards advertising the scarlet woman” (Snodgrass). With this allusion to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter, Atwood clearly displays the isolation that comes along with the name tag of “handmaid”. In this society women are judged on what color they wear. Yet, if none of them were to wear a color, no man or authority figure would be able to tell the difference between them. Once again looking back on the American Gothic era, the Puritans held a similar class system to…

Survival through the Love of Language The Handmaid’s Tale is a speculative fiction novel set in a futuristic dystopian society where the manipulation of language, and the erasing of personal identity are the main weapons of control. Through Offred, the narrator of this story, the reader is witness to the struggles of maintaining a sense of self identity, and a connection with others within the constraints of this patriarchal society. Although all citizens of The Republic of Gilead are subject to…

tremendously throughout time. We have made advancements in government, medicine, technology, and society in general. Our ideals have also changed. The more advanced we become, the more we strive for perfection. Both Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid 's Tale depict futures that are different from our own society, but also include elements that we are familiar with. These dystopian societies will not be far from our own future if we abuse the powers that we posses. Margaret Atwood claims that she…

Margaret Atwood’s novel the Handmaid 's tale, uses repression, denial and sublimation to convey the tenets of psychoanalytic theory. Repression is when a person does something unconsciously because they want to hide what is going on with a specific situation. Denial is when someone does not want to accept reality, in most cases this can be not accepting the death of a lost one. Sublimation is when someone does something to hide their emotions. “The theory of psychoanalytic is fear of intimacy,…

In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer brings characters with somewhat strange or distorted religious practices that go against the norm of Christianity at that time. He tries to show that religion is a motivator, a reassurance, and something to chase after. However, it is not the shaper of your life. It’s the goal, but not the reality. If someone acts in a non-religious way, it is not an obvious implication that they are completely non-religious or that they are horrible people for not practicing…

In Margret Atwood’s dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, a new theocracy style of government has taken over the United States of America. It is now known as the Republic of Gilead, and entails a strictly structured caste system. The newly formed government has only been around for a few years, and the narrator, Offred has been casted as a handmaid. This position requires her to attempt to conceive a baby for the Commander and his wife by having sex with the Commander while she holds his wife’s…

Most people would agree that security and freedom are ideas that are necessary in life, with security comes freedom and vice versa, but in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, it seems as though there is one or the other. During the Gileadean period, the women are supposed to feel more secure than they ever had, but the women felt no sense of security or freedom. The men had dominance over the women. In the book, gender portrayed what type of life you will live. How someone would live in…

up fairy tales were everything. They were begged for at night time when sleep was scarce. Fate, a prince, and a princess basically ruled the world of adolescent literature novels. They were a fun way to hear about the mighty knight defeating the dragon to meet the gorgeous princess who was so cruelly locked away. With the thought of telling fairy tales were only for children, film industries are transforming the fairy tale into a realm away from children. While watching these fairy tales…