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    Marlyn Barroso ETS 192 October 3rd‚ 2013 Hierarchy in The HandMaid ’s Tale Margaret Atwood ’s The Handmaid ’s Tale is a interesting novel that will have you confused but also have you bitting your nails with intrigue. So many questions might go in your head‚ at the same time; Atwood wrote this novel so her readers can have curiosity‚ even after reading the last word of the last paragraph of the last page of the book. One of the main topics of this novel is the effect on society when a women

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    Critique “The Handmaid’s Tale‚” written by Margaret Atwood is a fictional book that takes place in the near future when all of women’s rights were taken away. The book is from the point of view of a girl who just lost her family‚ all her money‚ her possessions and is later taken away to be a handmaid. This all took place because of the overthrow of the government. As a handmaid it is her duty to obey all new laws and to reproduce children for the “higher class” or she will face the wall (be hung)

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    English – comparing 1984 & The Handmaid’s Tale. In The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood puts across the sense of mystery‚ things that were once there but are no more. She talks about ‘the pungent smell of sweat‚ shot through with the sweet smell of chewing gum and perfume’ which came from the girls who once watched the basketball matches that were ‘formally played there’. In the first section of this book we get the feeling that the character is quite lost‚ lost in what once was and not in the

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    James Fils-Aime The Handmaid ’s Tale Fact or Fiction The Handmaid ’s Tale is a dystopian novel in which Atwood creates a world which seems absurd and near impossible. Women being kept in slavery only to create babies‚ cult like religious control over the population‚ and the deportation of an entire race‚ these things all seem like fiction. However Atwood ’s novel is closer to fact than fiction; all the events which take place in the story have

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    Now Playing: Utopia‚ Followed by: Dystopia In the not so distant future‚ the story of The Handmaid’s Tale unfolds. Set in what seems to be a dystopian United States where various violations of human rights from around the globe are exposed. It is these violations that a patriarchal‚ authoritarian theocracy is created in the nation-state of Gilead. Oppression‚ status‚ and fear run rampant through the nation-state. Obedience is tantamount for the survival of women and the regime. Atwood exposes

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    Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a post Cold War society plagued by infertility. Atwood presents the reader with “The Republic of Gilead”‚ the Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government. Narrated by a woman renamed Offred‚ the reader gets an idea of a future in which women are no longer women‚ but are solely needed for reproduction. Atwood uses a system of vocabulary established under the Republic of Gilead in order to manipulate and dehumanize women and

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    “The true measure of a texts value lies in its ability to provoke the reader into awareness of its language and construction‚ not just its content”. The value of the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood‚ lies not only within the author’s purpose but within its construction and the author’s ability to draw readers attention to these concepts through language. Atwood has carefully and decisively used language and structure throughout the novel to enhance our understanding of the purpose and message

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    aandmaids TaelBrandon DenHartog Olson / Hour 2 AP Literature and Compisition January 10‚ 2012 Luke and Nick Ideal Men? It is no secret that Margaret Atwood has a feminist point of view in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. She makes it very clear that she is trying to bring attention to the discrimination against women in the culture of Gilead in this novel. With the exception of two male characters‚ Margaret Atwood portrays all of the men in the novel as selfish and heartless towards women.

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    society. This is greatly expressed in Fahrenheit 541‚ a book by Ray Bradbury taking place in the 1940’s. This book is centered around a man named Guy Montag who maintains the career of a “fireman”‚ or a book-burner‚ as he would be called today. Fahrenheit 451 is centered on his metamorphosis after meeting a young woman‚ not even seventeen-years old‚ who believes that people should have rights to their own opinions‚ instead of society’s manipulation. In Fahrenheit 451‚ people are unable to own books that

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    Fahrenheit 451 How could we as readers benefit from Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451?” Let’s start off by not burning books first. I can’t help but think if anything from Fahrenheit 451 could happen to us now‚ or even the future. With advertisement already everywhere‚ faster cars‚ higher speed limits and TV vs. books? I’m pretty sure our TV’s win that battle every time. When you actually think about Fahrenheit 451 and the year of 2012 now‚ there’s actually more to compare than contrast. We can’t

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