The Plowman's Tale

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…

What is our perception of the fairy tale, Beauty and The Beast? Some would determine the fairy tale about the imprisonment of a woman who over time, falls in love with a Beast. A feminist look into Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont’s Beauty and The Beast, portrays Beauty as strong and independent determining her own life choices. Through heroism, virtue, and indomitability, Beauty could be reflected as the 21st century woman. Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont was a French writer who was…

C. S. Lewis and His Reasoning Young children are easily fooled with mystical beings that are created for joy, like the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. As we grow older however, we lose our sense of wonder as well as our beliefs in such characters, we can still look back on our childhood and when we did believe with the help of well known author C.S. Lewis. Lewis are able to bring back the wonder that older people were able to feel when they were at a young age by telling stories about magical…

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…

In the original tale of Rapunzel archetypal elements are hidden throughout. Each archetype represents a different idea that authors slyly interpret into stories. The Grimm Brothers use the tower, Rapunzel’s tear, and Rapunzel's hair to construe a deeper meaning in their story. As the story is told Rapunzel gets locked away in a tower while she grows up. The tower is an actual part of the story which represents an isolation of oneself, but metaphorically is resembled as being a strong place for…

Once upon a time in place a far, far away, much different than the one we know, there is an evil queen that is feared by everyone in the land. In a place much like the one we know today, there is a mayor who governed the town with a personal drive to be the hero that everyone desperately wanted. Even though it appears that I am referring to two people, the obvious is not always true when it comes to mythical individuals. The Evil Queen and Regina Mills may be the same person, but due to a dark…

Growing up, girls are surrounded by the idea of being a princess. From watching Cinderella and Snow White, to playing with Barbie dolls, and even being called Daddy's little "princess", this desire is aroused at an early age. We encourage hopeless romantics that wait for Prince Charming to appear on his white horse, ready to sweep them off their feet and free themselves of all their problems. Not to mention yearning to be what media has constructed to be the ideal image of a "princess". For…

Into the woods is a broadway play that takes place in the woods. This is about Rapunzel, Cinderella, a baker and his wife, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack, and an ugly witch. The play starts in the baker and his wifes shop/house, Little red riding hood come in and gets a loaf of bread for her granny, as she is leaving she attempts to stay longer to take pastries from the baker as he forces her out of the shop. The wife hands little red a plate of pastries, and little red leaves following the same…

Xavier Vazquez Ms. Milliner EES21QH-04 October 18, 2016 The Handmaid’s Tale The Handmaid’s Tale is a book about a man dominated old testament inspired theocratic military government, called Gilead. In Gilead there is a hierarchy of women and the women are categorized to do different roles, the different categories are the wives, aunts, econowives, marthas, handmaids, and the unwomen. The handmaid's wear red colored clothing and are only used to produce children for the wives who can’t produce…

Compare and Contrast By Gianna Constantine and Cerina Vilayphone We are comparing and contrasting the perrault version of Cinderella and the African-style story, Chinye. One similarity between these two stories is that both of the main characters’ parents are dead. Another similarity is that they both have 1 or 2 stepsisters. Another similarity is they both have to do the stepsisters’ and the stepmother’s chores. They also clean up after them and cook for them. So pretty much in both…