The Plowman's Tale

Misinterpretation Of Children’s Literature Originally our culture was raised to believe fairytale’s had a based audience of children, but are we really teaching our children the right things by reading them these stories? Although a fairytale is a children 's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands, fairytales in some ways might be exposing younger children to more violent, sexual, harmful situations that they are not fully ready to understand. The debate is if the actions in which…

Geffrey Chaucer was an iconoclast of his era. During his epoch the church was the government and the class system could not be cheated. Men had the rule of thumb, there are even instances of men getting punished for not keeping their women in check. “which has the effect of stressing the importance of masculine relations), and pushing feminine experience and values to the margins.” ("Explanation of: 'The Wife of Bath ' by Geoffrey Chaucer.")Chaucer had a few bones to pick with some ideas that…

Domesticated women Versions of fairy tales determine what an audience wants, you can tell the time period of each tale, also know what they expected and demanded. They are key reflections of the cultural values. You can see how cultural values have changed over the years through the retelling and Disney movies of these essential moralistic fairy tales. There has been little change in the roles of women throughout the years. In these fairy tales all heroines are rescued by a prince and are to…

Freedom and individual rights are essential for living a joyful life. Unfortunately, in the novel The Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood, people live in a close and controlled society. In neither novel, the protagonists have no right of deciding on what they want to do with their lives. For example, Equality 7-2521, the protagonist of the Anthem yearns of becoming a scientist, but is commanded to be a Street Sweeper by a government that fears his independence of mind.…

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,…