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¶ … Handmaid's Tale
Atwood Creation of Alternate World
About the Book
The book Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood is the tale of a woman named Offred who belonged to the Republic of Gilead. Some particular details were published at the time the novel that recommended Gilead's time frame to be in the current since the State of Gilead is now appears as the new form of a northeastern American State.
The story is a bitter mockery on the state of present day's culture, with alertness of what may happen if some particular extremist groups attain the strength and power. However, the significant and main theme of the novel is not only just on the liberty and freedom but also a debate as to whether the freedom from harm is more costly than the independence of ones own will.
Atwood Creation of Alternate World
The author has written the book on the long tradition and a near-future dystopias, which, since...
Thus, the author, in the Handmaid's Tale gives to a certain extent an extrapolation of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in order to picture what type of values may develop if environmental pollution provides most of the individual race sterilized. She gives the outcome of debates if the period 70s and early 80s within the feminist movement.
The way she has created an alternative world in the structure and characterization is due to the fact that she has been a part of that movement, who always adamant on her individual viewpoint. She discusses the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, along wit the emergence of the religious right all she has experienced.
Furthermore, the election of Ronald Reagan, along with and many kinds of backlash against the women's movement led to writers like her that had the apprehension that the antifeminist tide may turn back the clock if it…
Works Cited
BBC - h2g2. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.
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Paul Brians. Study Guide to Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1986). March 27, 1996. www.wsu.edu
The Handmaid's Tale
Not only do the handmaids have no privacy; they sleep with their masters under the watchful eye of the wives. Their days are segmented and scheduled. Women lack autonomy and their bodies belong not to them but to the oppressors. One of the most poignant reminders of the low position of women in Gilead society is the invasive and coercive medical examination required for all handmaids. "When I'm naked
As Canada has become less wild, many of these obstacles have been recognized by writers to exist internally, as Atwood says: "no longer obstacles to physical survival but obstacles to what we may call spiritual survival, to life as anything more than a minimally human being." Grim survival is that sort of survival which overcomes a specific threat which destroys everything else about one, such as a hurricane or plane
How different it was to be from the loose ungoverned part I had acted before, and how much happier a life of virtue and sobriety is, than that which we call a life of pleasure."(moll Flander, Chapter 38). By this choice of words, Defoe contrasts sobriety and pleasure and the conclusion could be that there is no pleasure for the virtuous. By "life of pleasure," he means, of course,
Margaret Atwood set out to depict a society in the future, one that in her eyes had characteristics that needed to be solved from the present. This novel is dystopian in nature which presents a dysfunctional society in the future as seen in the eyes of the author. It is however instrumental to note that most of the works of fiction that are set in the future, are actually meant
And "civilized" also means being corrupted by rampant economic temptations and in the process, ruining the land; and the narrator goes to great lengths to show that she "...wishes to not be human," which is a linking of "guilt and self-knowledge," according to Janice Fiamengo's essay (in The American Review of Canadian Studies). Essayist Fiamengo quotes Atwood from a 1972 interview (Surfacing was published in 1972) in which the author
" (Atwood, 4) the seamless convergence of the warm familial title 'aunt' with the image of this corporal mode of enforcement helps to underscore a society that is violently hostile toward independence, particularly contextualized by its treatment of women. There is an element of forcible control over these women that smacks of government imposition, a key element of the society and the primary mode through which the rights of women