Why I choose Margaret Atwood as my research topic. This is because of her significant history at an early age until present. The time-period is post-modernism. The author is Margaret Atwood. The public pays attention to her as a poet in the 1960s with her collections Double Persephone 1961, winner of the E.J. Pratt Medaled. Her poetry explored the distinctions between life and art and the normal with human creation. She used duality in the relationship between the opposites. But,…...
In Margaret Atwood's chilling novel “Oryx and Crake”, the readers are sent into a backwards spiral to a tragic catastrophic event while its full dimensions are slowly revealed, Jimmy is the apparent last human on Earth, making his way back to the Rejuven-Essence Compound for supplies. Oryx and Crake mobilizes a wide variety of futurological and ‘mythological’ speculations creating a horrifying, almost parallel universe. This novel portrays the extreme possible outcome of the world we live in today today where…...
In her novel Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood portrays an alternate reality of genetic engineering gone wrong in a dystopian society. However, as of late, her novel is inching closer and closer to a brutal reality. Although the novel is fictional it displays many parallels to our society. It has aspects that some groups in our society face today such as having an us against them mentality and being the last of a kind. As science and engineering progresses, the…...
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In Margaret Atwood's chilling novel “Oryx and Crake”, the readers are sent into a backwards spiral to a tragic catastrophic event while its full dimensions are slowly revealed, Jimmy is the apparent last human on Earth, making his way back to the Rejuven-Essence Compound for supplies. Oryx and Crake mobilizes a wide variety of futurological and ‘mythological’ speculations creating a horrifying, almost parallel universe. This novel portrays the extreme possible outcome of the world we live in today today where…...
Forgive me if my thoughts are a bit jumbled on this one, there’s just too many things to say... Knowledge is power and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I know it’s cliche, but in an age of increasing technology and wealth inequality, it could not be more relevant. For when technology combines with the advance of capitalism and greed, this gap between the rich and the poor will only continue to grow. In the novel Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood explores…...
In the handmaids tale the government of Gilead changes the handmaids names, in the hope that they will be able to change their identities and get the people to forget everything about their former selves and life’s such as their life partners, children and parents causing the people to then start losing their sense of individuality becoming more robot like rather than humans focusing solely on their given tasks of being vessels for procreation. However, many people including the protagonist…...
1.Oryx and Crake includes many details that seem futuristic, but are in fact already visible in our world. What parallels were you able to draw between the items in the world of the novel and those in your own? 2. Margaret Atwood coined many words and brand names while writing the novel. In what way has technology changed your vocabulary over the past five years? 3. The game "Extinctathon" emerges as a key component in the novel. Jimmy and Crake…...
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Xenotransplantation is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another such as from pigs to humans ( Medical grafting). Such cells, tissues or organs are called xenografts or xenotransplants. The term allotransplantation refers to a same-species transplant. Human xenotransplantation offers a potential treatment for end-stage organ failure, a significant health problem in parts of the industrialized world and worldwide shortage of organs for clinical implantation. It also raises many novel medical, legal and ethical issues.…...
Language is defined as ‘a system of communication by speaking, writing, or making signs in a way that can be understood… a particular type of expression’. The reliance on this complex is immense: one is incapable of envisaging a world in the absence of it. Throughout the years, history has demonstrated manipulation is one of the most powerful weapons the world possesses. From deceiving propaganda to censorship - both past and present - people are constantly misled to believe and…...
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Margaret Attwood's ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ is a dystopian novel published in 1985. It is set in New England in the future where the handmaids are forced to produce babies for the Commanders and their wives to raise. George Orwell’s ‘1984’ is also a dystopian novel originally published in 1949. In this novel, citizens are taught to love and obey their leader, also known as ‘Big Brother’ who watches and controls everything to the extent that not even their thoughts are safe.…...
As a reader, it's our job to know the author's purpose, Margaret Atwood’s book “The Handmaid's Tale” may be a dystopian novel that was published in 1985; during the backlash against the progress of second-wave feminism. To people that don’t know what the second- wave feminism period was, it had been the women's movement of the 1960s and 70s during which women started breaking the ideals of where a lady stands. Margaret Atwood used this point to make a dystopian…...
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Fear is ever-present in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The republic of Gilead uses fear to force the citizens of Gilead to be obedient. Each citizen gets a label that specifies what their role is, the rules they must follow, and what they have to do in order to remain a part of their society. If they fail to follow these rules or fulfill these roles, the result can be alienation from society or being brutally murdered or tortured. All the women in…...
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In The Handmaid's Tale, a state of paralysis results from the fear that consumes both the individual and society. How does Atwood explore this paralysis in her dystopia? Different states of paralysis are explored within Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale. Through the paralysis of emotions, time, knowledge and women's identity the reader gains a broader understanding of dystopic fiction and the techniques employed to create the totalitarian society portrayed in Atwood's eloquently written novel. The empathy and connection with…...
Introduction In Margaret Atwoods novel, "The Handmaids Tale", the birth rate in the United States had dropped so low that extremists decided to take matters into their own hands by killing off the government, taking over themselves, and reducing the womens role in society to that of a silent birthing machine. One handmaid describes what happened and how it came about as she, too, is forced to comply with the new order. Before the new order, known as the Sons…...
I think this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the Moon may non be on the surface, but indoors. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its ain. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasance. ( Atwood, 137 )Tropology ( Symbolism ) : The word `` egg '' is used to symbolize the eggs nowadays in females for reproduction.By giving an insightful description of an egg, Offred reveals…...
It was first picked up by French feminists and can be witnessed here in 'The Handmaids Tale'. "I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object the shape of a pear which is hard and more real than I am and glows red with its translucent wrapping. " This passage is ecrtiture feminine as it celebrates the body with references to the womb 'central' and 'pear'. In this novel, the womb is the focus of the body. Orwell conveys resistance through…...
Everything we know about Gilead, we find out from a handmaid named Offred. The story was written to represent the future, but is now the past so is the historical present. Al the information we find out is released to us very slowly. The republic of Gilead is now under a dictatorship like totalitarian rule, which is highly patririarchal. The book is set out to be a fictive autobiography, and is written in a non-chronological order. This is to confuse…...
Comment on the portrayal of the Aunts in 'The Handmaid's Tale', their role in Gilead and the attitude of the narrator towards them. In the hierarchical society of Gilead, each woman is given an arbitrary classification, to which she has been brainwashed to obey. The Aunts are the indoctrinators of the system, who perhaps play one of the most crucial roles in the novel, training and brainwashing the Handmaids to fulfil their duties. The Aunts train from the 'Red Centre'.…...
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Resistance narrative is a story about an individual who is resisting showing that they do not agree with a social or political view. In this novels case we have Offred who is trying to resist the tyrannical society she is in. This is a recurring theme in "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood as we see Offred battle to survive and cope in an oppressive society where she is the victim. Resistance is used by many different people and for…...
Language is an extremely powerful factor in our culture and society. It can be a key into our community and as a form of communication to our peers and acquaintances. However in Margret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale' we see a society which has no equal communication, let alone any equality in gender or a consensus of democracy. Atwood has created an oppressed society which displays corporal and capital punishment as a norm to its citizens who are kept alike…...
The chapters in the Handmaids Tale are named after an event or a time that is relevant to Offreds situation as the story progresses. The sections called 'Night' are very important chapters in the novel because this signifies the time when Offred is alone and silent remembering her vivid memories of her past. It is only at night that Offred chooses to remember her past because she is by herself, quiet and in her own personal territory. She feels that…...
The Handmaids Tale is a social examination told by one women trapped in a theocratic community. Offred dissects the Gileadien society through language and structure, which is parallel to her expression of self-identification and the wholes in her society with reference to past cultures. Gilead is a collection of past communities fused together to create a repressive dystopia analysed by Offred and is almost a warning to future societies. Aspects of Nazi Germany and Iran feature in the way Gileadien…...
The first four chapters act as an effective and appropriate introduction to the Handmaid's Tale. Throughout the first four chapters, Atwood uses several techniques, and also the creative anti-chronological feature of the novel to the engage the interest of the reader. Chapter 1 immediately sets up the time scale of the novel, within the first sense Atwood cleverly employs the past tense, 'We slept in what had once been the gymnasium', the interesting combination of the past tense and a…...
As a fictive autobiography, Atwood looks at the life of a woman in a dystopian setting, living amongst a male dominated environment, that of Gilead. The main protagonist is presented as first person narrator and offers a subjective yet often subversive view of her surroundings and life. Atwood has evidently chosen this narrative strategy to build a personal relationship between Offred and the reader. As Offred unfolds her descriptions, with perpetual attention to clarity and detail, the reader is willing…...
From Act I of 'The Duchess of Malfi' what impressions does the audience get of the court and how does Webster create this? Include a close analysis of a section of your choice.'The Duchess of Malfi' revolves around the predominate themes of the Jacobean period, during the reign of King James I. England faced a leader they did not trust as seen through their pessimistic literature work. The country had been previously known to be strong and powerful whereas it…...
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Control, submission and rebellion. To control is to take over, to submit is to conform with orders and to rebel is to fight back to the people in control. These are a few of the most important themes featured in the novels The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the film V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue. This report will explore issues such as how the…...
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AT&T Corporation can trace its root to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The original company was founded in 1885 by American Bell to create a network of long-distance communication nationwide with a commercially viable cost-structure. In 1899, the company in turn acquired the assets of American Bell in order to bypass Massachusetts corporate law that limited the capitalizations of corporations. By 1915, long distance telephone service reached San Francisco and transatlantic services began in 1927. AT&T Corporation eventually became…...
The Handmaid's Tale covers many topics and through Offred's discussion of events we see how Gilead has warped bible messages, torn apart families and condones legalized rape. The democratic society she once took for granted has been exchanged for a strict patriarchal fundamentalist dystopia, leaving her as nothing more than a "cloud congealed around a central object" the object of course being womb. I think that considering the depth in which Atwood explores the relating issues it would be impossible…...
The ending of The Handmaid's Tale, although is not a satisfactory ending for the reader, suits the novel very well. Its ambiguity follows the same ambiguous themes which we have already seen permeate the whole text. Atwood uses the last sentence of the text "the darkness within; or else the light" deliberately, to continue with the ambiguity, and to act as a device to not actually end the novel, but to keep the reader guessing. The "darkness" and the "light"…...
Introduction In the nineteenth century, Lord Acton remarked that: 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel originally published in 1985. It artistically demonstrates the existence and manipulation of power. This is the main point of this work and we can see it in every aspect of the novel. We see how people use and misuse power in order to gain their objectives. This work could be seen as an…...
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Story picture of a (like a terrible, scary world) (community of people/all good people in the world) named the Republic of Gilead, where a bunch of religion-driven (people who strongly believe in a powerful central government) take complete control and resort to (dishonest and wrong) means to get what they want. In order to increase the number of the white population, new laws are set which take away from the women in Gilead, of their rights…...
The brief extract given from 'The Handmaids's Tale', manifests the absence of freedom given to them women. The writer uses her stream of consciousness through the first person narrative to depict this atmosphere. The writer begins the theme of imprisonment, through the description of the objects and the setting in the room. She uses rather limited descriptive language to create an apparently passive tone. The narrator seems to list or catalog items in an unemotional manner, as if nothing has…...
In the novel The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood, she uses her characters and their journey 's throughout the narrative to depict controversies of a woman's role in society which she has previously encountered. The story consists of a dystopian society called Gilead that is made up of people with specific functions and requirements they must execute, or else, will be faced with brutal consequences. Atwood explores the role of women within Gilead as a way to criticize a…...
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Explore the way in which Margaret Atwood presents Moira 'The Handmaid's Tale'. Refer closely to any literary and linguistic approaches where necessary. Within 'The Handmaid's Tale' Atwood presents us with many characters that are emotionally weak; Janine, Offred and even the Commander residing in the higher echelons of society all possess a deprivation of spirit brought about by the oppressive and restrictive nature of the Gileadean regime. In contrast to this we are presented with Moira and through her Atwood…...
The novel The Handmaid's Tale written by Margret Atwood is about how the government chose to control the way the community was run and control the lives of men and women. The novel tells the story from the perspective of a middle-aged woman named Offred who questions society's accepted beliefs and conventions. Offred is a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead who is constantly questioning the government beliefs and rules. Her character pushes the limits set out by the government.…...
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale delves well into the horrid nature of extreme control and immoral limitations in defining the corrupt theocratic government at large, and more specifically the effect this control has on the society’s women. In an age in which a newly emerged and merciless governmental system called the Republic of Gilead has “put life back to the middle ages,” sparked by a widespread panic of infertility, personal freedom and individuality have become unimaginably reduced (Genny 1). Handmaids…...
The motif of time is very evident in this section. Time, something are never ever thought much of before her brand-new life, is now an item she thinks of often. "There's time to spare. This is among the important things I wasn't gotten ready for-- the quantity of unfilled time," (Atwood 69). "In the afternoons we lay o our beds for an hour in the gymnasium ... they were giving us a possibility to get used to blank time," (70…...
Some would argue that Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a book that pulls its ideas and beliefs about women and their place in society from the Bible. But based upon the novel, the Bible, and some writings by Christian writers, that is true, but highly skewed. Let’s begin by taking a look at how society is setup in The Handmaid’s Tale so we can have a clear understanding where the author is coming from. The whole premise is that…...
Names are a very important thing that most people are given shortly after birth. A name is “the word or words that a person, thing or place is known by” (Cambridge Online Dictionary (2011), Retrieved November 6th 2012). Names are given to identify an individual in replace of calling someone “it”, a term used to refer to something inanimate or without a name. A name shows that someone loves us enough to name us; to think about it with care…...
Metaphorical language was utilized by Margaret Atwood, through the personality of Offred, to illustrate The Handmaid's Tale. Metaphorical Language consists of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, embellishment and idioms. First, figurative language can be utilized to describe different settings. 1. Offred's experience in the evening in her bed room "The heat at night is worse than the heat in daytime. Even with the fan on, absolutely nothing moves, and the walls save up heat, offer it out like an utilized…...
...Society is meant to be a community, but Gilead is a concentration camp. Language displays the emotions these women feel and uses words like 'isolation', 'forlorn', palimpsest'. Gilead has no equality but a ladder of status and women are to live in a ...
...Her memories will always be there and rebellion will always live in certain members of society, the brothel in which Moira worked was a form of revolt as was the very account of Offred's tales. These rays of hope shine through the totalitarian, dysto...
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