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    Food traditionally represents comfort‚ security‚ and family. We recall the traditional concept of comfort food and the large family dinners in Norman Rockwell ’s piece Freedom from Want. However‚ for many‚ food is also a serious‚ and potentially damaging‚ method of control. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are classic examples of psychological syndromes‚ related to control‚ that express themselves with eating disorders. Prisoners of war are denied food as the most basic method of torture and control

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    3rd‚ 2013 Hierarchy in The HandMaids Tale Margaret Atwood ’s The Handmaids 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 ’s fate is taken away from and replaced

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    James Fils-Aime The Handmaids Tale Fact or Fiction The Handmaids 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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    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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    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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    Journeys Essay We learn from the journeys we take‚ through experience‚ not from the destination itself. This statement is supported by both Margaret Atwood’s fictional dystopian novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Oliver Stone’s crime fiction film ‘Natural Born Killers’. Through the use of multiple techniques Atwood makes it clear that the protagonist Offred undertakes inner and imaginative journeys during the course of the novel and learns from them. Likewise‚ Stone uses an array of film techniques

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    The Handmaids Tale “The use of symbolism can transform the most straightforward theme. “ To what extent do you agree with this statement? The theme of conformity and resistance reigns throughout the book “The Handmaids Tale” as it follows the life of Offred in a new and restrictive society named Gilead. However‚ this theme has the potential to be repetitive and boring if the author is not armed with the right techniques. Margaret Atwood‚ has these skills in abundance. Her use of symbolism

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