Margaret Atwood ’s The Handmaid ’s Tale would seem‚ on the surface‚ a straightforward feminist text. The narrative is set in a speculative future‚ exploring gender inequalities in an absolute patriarchy in which women are breeders‚ housekeepers‚ mistresses‚ or housewives—or otherwise exiled to the Colonies. In Atwood ’s fictional Gilead‚ all of the work of twentieth-century feminism has been utterly undone‚ and the text explores the effects of this from a first-person point of view that elicits the
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Is Mr Rochester the man for Jane? Mr Rochester is not the man for Jane because he is nearly twice Jane’s age. ‘ Oh yes. But you see there is a considerable difference in age. Mr Rochester is nearly forty; she is but twenty-five.’ In Jane’s monologue she states ‘ You‚ a favourite with Mr Rochester? You gifted with the power of pleasing him? You of importance to him in any way? Go! Your folly sicken me.’ Why would Jane be doubting herself so much if she really loved him. She has never come across
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saluting enthusiastically to their red-robed leaders under the yellow star; the boat crammed with coughing throats and calloused hands; blood washed away by the rains. She talked about things I had only ever heard about from the kind of tragic monologues that hot-shot actors won Oscars for and only shed real tears for at the podium. But unlike the performers’ melodramatic shouts of magniloquent misdirected emotion and the onion tears I associated with this kind of language‚ she seemed perfectly
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Holocaust Monologue: Memoir of Eva Buchbinder (from Torn Threads by Anne Isaacs) My name is Eva Buchbinder. I have many family members that live with me in the fenced in ghetto of Bedzin‚ Poland; my father‚ Papa‚ my sister‚ Rachel‚ my aunt‚ Rivka‚ Uncle Nathaniel‚ and my cousin‚ David. Papa‚ Rachel‚ and I used to live in the proper part of town in Bedzin‚ but once Hitler came to power he made many laws that condemned us because we were Jewish. In the winter of 1942 we were forced to move
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The Handmaid’s Tale is a distopian novel of tightly wound truths and links to our society today. It is so tightly wound‚ like a thorn bush‚ that gaining any meaning from it at all proves to be a very arduous task indeed for those who are not predisposed to do so. Nevertheless‚ some meaning did present itself during the text‚ as follows. The truth that is privileged in The Handmaid’s Tale is that societies/regimes based on totalitarianism and extremism are not satisfactory for anyone involved. Even
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protection ended you need to leave the village within two days‚ no food will be provided to you by the village‚ only two gold coins. If you wish to have more gold you can exchange it with life stones. Did you understood everything?". Quite a long monologue to
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What fairy tale is she from.” said the worried white rabbit. Raya began to wake to find what seemed to be the characters from her book looking down at her. “ Where am I?” she said. She looked up to see a huge timer with 5:15:32 on it. “ Your in the book of fairytales
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An exemplum is a tale that teaches a moral lesson by an example. The Canterbury Tales displays exempla in “The Prologue‚” “The Pardoner’s Tale‚” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by using each character to teach a moral lesson to the audience. “The Prologue” shows the audience that some people are different from their appearances‚ “The Pardoner’s Tale” teaches the audience that greed is the root of all evil‚ and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” teaches the audience the true nature of women. “The Prologue”
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My Preference of The Doctor’s Tale The tale that I selected to read was the astronomy practicing Physician. This story of love‚ in hatred and bigotry was extremely interesting to read however‚ on the same note the wording was tremendously derived in Middle English tone which made a few sections difficult to understand and comprehend. The non-bible reading doctor’s tale is interesting from beginning to end‚ he paints a vivid picture of all his characters and there attributes using immense direct
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“This is my class‚” she remarked‚ pointing out a list of names‚ “but there’s no Charles‚ Charlie‚ not even a Charlotte.” “But you must know Charles!” I laughed‚ thinking of all the tales of the troublemaker that Laurie had brought home. “Laurie’s told us all about him. Charles is the boy that hit and yelled. He’s the one that was fresh‚ and Laurie told us that just a week ago‚ he told a little girl to say a bad word twice‚ and she
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