Vince Clarke

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…

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…

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…

In a world where a society oppresses women to feel less than the opposite gender and where men are often given the allusion that they are the superior sex, is destined to become a dystopian society. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, an imaginary dystopian world is built by extremist religious beliefs. As soon as the revolution in Gilead started and terrorism destroyed the government, bank accounts were drained and women were found jobless. After this, women find all liberties being…

First written in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a theocratic nation known as The Republic of Gilead, defined by its significant social boundary between males and females. Influenced by the strict and traditional lifestyle of the seventeenth century American Puritans, Margaret Atwood based her narrative on the disparity between the role of the man and woman in their culture. Especially in the 1970s, America was swept by rising movements based upon the Republican party ideals which heavily…

Shania Grant Ms. Milliner EES21Qh-04 October 20,2016 Novel Based Essay Margaret Atwood the author of “ The Handmaid's Tale” uses language to draw the reader's attention. Throughout the novel the author has several flashbacks. The flashbacks that she often has helps her escape from her reality. She also uses biblical references but her main focus is power. In the novel most of the women are fighting for power. Serena Joy tries to make offred look bad so she can conserve her…

In “The Handmaid’s Tale”, Margaret Atwood describes a new society, Gilead, formed from the ruins of the modern day the United States. Although theoretically this society is built to foster women and protect them from fear of sexual harassment and rape, Gilead takes feminism back hundreds of years. Women are either sexless wives and Marthas or childbearing Handmaids. With a distorted version of the Bible as a model, the Gilead leaders formed a republic founded on fear and oppression. Atwood…

Demonstrating the strength of the setting played a major role in delivering the idea of the systemic control of the society in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood chose the non-resistant attributes of the protagonist in the novel carefully because she sought for displaying a clear picture of the story, without letting the protagonist’s pathos alter it; which helped on letting the historical notes increase the significance and the power of the setting by showing how non immune she was…

Consider an instance when you were required to make a choice. A time when you understood all the facts and recognized rationally what path you should follow. However, once it came down to making the choice for some odd reason you didn’t use your head at all. Instead, you realized that you had to act on what you felt because somehow that feeling you felt was stronger than the opposing logical choice. We as humans are caught in an internal struggle because our heads lead us one way while our…

How does the writer make the ending so dramatically effective? - The plight of Madame Loisel  (How does she perceive her life to be? Draw upon examples here!)  (What does her life become? Why is this ironic?) - The relationship between Madame + Monsieur  (Why does he seem so pleased with himself for the Party invitation?)  (He uses all his money not just to help buy her an outfit but also to buy a real diamond necklace)  (Why is he so content in life?) - Symbolism of the necklace  (How…