is shatterproof. There is nothing in the room from which one could hang a rope‚ and the door does not lock or even shut completely. Looking around‚ Offred remembers how Aunt Lydia told her to consider her circumstances a privilege‚ not a prison. Handmaids‚ to which group the narrator belongs‚ dress entirely in red‚ except for the white wings framing their faces. Household servants‚ called “Martha’s‚” wear green uniforms. “Wives” wear blue uniforms. Offred often secretly listens to Rita and Cora‚ the
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War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. The party slogan of Ingsoc illustrates the sense of contradiction which characterizes the novel 1984. That the book was taken by many as a condemnation of socialism would have troubled Orwell greatly‚ had he lived to see the aftermath of his work. 1984 was a warning against totalitarianism and state sponsored brutality driven by excess technology. Socialist idealism in 1984 had turned to a total loss of individual freedom in exchange for false
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George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale are both novels in which the state‚ namely Oceania and Gilead‚ attempts to exert totalitarian control over the lives of its peoples. Through Orwell and Atwood’s subsequent portrayal on the ensuing dystopias we are clearly able to see the respective states desire to control love and emotion‚ which are considered undesirable distractions‚ as a means of achieving the totalitarian control that they so desire. It is thus in
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According to Sider and Conee‚ determinism conflicts with the concept of free will. Since all events have single or multiple causes and are also caused by a prior event‚ the existence of free will is questioned. If a person woke up one day and felt energized‚ there would be a reason as to why he woke up that way and not any other way. Perhaps the reason would be that he had 12 hours of sleep‚ or that he woke up to a bright‚ sunny day. Determinism tells us that not only is there a reason why he woke
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language to show many factors in the novel the “The Handmaids Tale”. In the Gilead age power was wanted be everyone. Which lead people to do anything for power. Women were deprived of their freedom‚ making language the means of escape. This novel was portrayed from a young woman’s life named Offred. Living in Gilead dealing with various restrictions towards women. With this mindset of society different roles were set for women. Offred was a handmaid who is the carrier of children. Language is limited
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[pic] [pic] Linguistics Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics 1.1 Why study language? 1. Language is very essential to human beings. 2. In language there are many things we should know. 3. For further understanding‚ we need to study language scientifically. 1.2 What is language? Language is a means of verbal communication. It is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. 1.3 Design features of language The features that define our human languages can be called
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Hard Determinism vs. Soft Determinism By: Michael Soltys Determinism is the idea that occurrences in our life have already been determined and are a result of another element in the universe (cause and effect) and every occurrence can be traced back to the original state of the universe therefore nothing is random. Indeterminism‚ is essentially the opposite of determinism‚ humans have the free will to do as they please therefore nothing is predetermined. Now assuming one does hold the deterministic
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The Handmaid’s Tale Gilead maintained control over all its citizens through captivating them and dehumanizing them until they felt as though they were too weak to break free or ever live past it. The regime used its anti-feminism and oppression against the trapped women. Another tactic they used was power‚ meaning some individuals would do anything to keep power‚ even if it meant losing their morals or humanity like Nick‚ Offred‚ the commander and many more.Lastly‚the most used tactic was fear which
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Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective. As a discipline it links literary criticism and linguistics‚ but has no autonomous domain of its own. Types of Stylistics: 1. Computational Stylistics: Study of patterns formed in particular texts‚ authors‚ genres‚ periods via computational methods. Through the use of computers‚ it should be possible to achieve more accurate detection and explanation of such linguistic patterns. 2. Linguo-Stylistics: Linguo-stylistics
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The Handmaids Tail… How classifying people into different groups and social classes helps to maintain a sense of order and prevent a mass resistance in Gilead‚ a country run by a totalitarian regime Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Gilead is a country run by a totalitarian regime in which all people whether rich‚ poor‚ old or young are affected in some way. The totalitarian regime is like a database however instead of classifying and organizing numbers it classifies and organizes
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