Bound Of The Handmaid's Odyssey

Can human live without love? The answer is evidently no. Love can be defined as: the most spectacular, indescribable, deep euphoric feeling for someone. Margaret Atwood, the author of the outstanding dystopian fiction the handmaid 's tale (1985) had once in her book said: " nobody dies from lack of sex. It 's lack of love we die from.” In this novel, Atwood specifically depicts a society where relationships have been altered, undermined and in many ways forbidden. The key word in the issue of relationships is love. In the Republic of Gilead, a form of theocratic government, women had lost their ability to love. The protagonist Offred is a handmaid whose sole purpose in life is to reproduce a child. Gilead expects its handmaids to have faith in its commandments, but has removed love and hope from them. Women became objects and sex slaves to men. Therefore, the relationships of the protagonist Offred are unhealthy as well as abnormal, yet they are source of hope for Offred to survive from this theocratic form of government. Her relationship with the commander is strained but profitable, her relationship with Serena Joy has lots of tensions and conflicts; and her relationship with Nick is subtle as well as controversial.

Serena Joy is the most powerful female presence in the hierarchy of Gileadean women; she is the central character in the dystopian novel, signifying the foundation for the Gileadean regime. Atwood uses Serena Joy as a symbol for the present dystopian society, justifying why the society of Gilead arose and how its oppression had infiltrated the lives of unsuspecting people.

The Handmaid's Tale, a film based on Margaret Atwood’s book depicts a dystopia, where pollution and radiation have rendered innumerable women sterile, and the birthrates of North America have plummeted to dangerously low levels. To make matters worse, the nation’s plummeting birth rates are blamed on its women. The United States, now renamed the Republic of Gilead, retains power the use of piousness, purges, and violence. A Puritan theocracy, the Republic of Gilead, with its religious trappings and rigid class, gender, and racial castes is built around the singular desire to control reproduction. Despite this, the republic is inhabited by characters who would not seem out of place in today's society. They plant flowers in the yard, live in suburban houses, drink whiskey in the den and follow a far off a war on the television. The film leaves the conditions of the war and the society vague, but this is not a political tale, like Fahrenheit 451, but rather a feminist one. As such, the film, isolates, exaggerates and dramatizes the systems in which women are the 'handmaidens' of today's society in general and men in particular.

In Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaids Tale’, we hear a transcribed account of one womans posting ‘Offred’ in the Republic of Gilead. A society based around Biblical philosophies as a way to validate inhumane state practises. In a society of declining birth rates, fertile women are chosen to become Handmaids, walking incubators, whose role in life is to reproduce for barren wives of commanders. Older women, gay men, and barren Handmaids are sent to the colonies to clean toxic waste.

Thesëus mercifully agrees to to get vengeance on the tyrant Creon, who “[set] his dogs to eat” the women’s husbands instead of burying them. Theseus’ mercy did not reach so far, as he went to Thebes to fight and slay Creon “manfully, like knight, / [i]n open war” (26-27).

Egeus tells the Duke that his daughter can marry Demetrius, not Lysander. Hermia replies ". . . If I refuse to wed Demetrius," Egeus replies "Either to die the death,

Paula Hawkins, a well-known British author, once said, “I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.” In Margaret Atwood’s futuristic dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale, a woman named Offred feels she is losing control over everything in her life. Offred lives in the Republic of Gilead. A group of fundamentalists create the Republic of Gilead after they murder the President of the United States and members of Congress. The fundamentalists use the power to their advantage and restrict women’s freedom. As a result, each woman is assigned a specific duty to perform in society. Offred’s husband and child are taken away from her and she is now forced to live her life as a Handmaid. Offred’s role in society is to produce a child

You found no justification for yourselves- none except your lust to marry me. Stand up, then: we know declare a contest for that prize. Here is my lord Odysseus' hunting bow. Who sends an arrow through iron ax-helve sockets, twelve in line? I join my life with his, and leave this place, my home, my rich and beautiful bridal house, forever to be remember, though I dream it only."

There is a tale that was told through the generations past and now. This tale is something that will make you think twice before entering the woods in South Carolina. This tale is called The Searching Chief. It all started during the 15 century. There was a big battle between the Sunset tribe and the Valley tribe. The Chief Bobo of the Sunset tribe was in the midst of the battle when the Chief of the Valley tribe came was his weapon and cut the head of the Chief of the Sunset. The Valley tribe won the battle and the land. There was a big celebration in the Valley tribe since they have won the battle. The through Chief Bobo’s head and burned the body.

The Greek hero was to slay and skin a enormous lion, that had been terrorizing the hills of Nemea. However, this is no ordinary lion, this lion cannot be penetrated by an arrow or sword and its skin is tougher than any armour. This was fact, however, was unbeknownst to Herakles, who shot arrows which harmlessly bounced of the great beast thighs. After a great battle, Herakles, with his great strength, strangled the beast. He would then skin the animal by using its own claws. On his return King Eurystheus was equally amazed and horrified. Eurystheus barred him from the city limits, he was to display the spoils of his labours outside the city gates. Herakles would then go on to complete 11 other labors, each one increasing in difficulty.(The Nemean Lion, Tufts.edu

Osel watched the young prince from the door. He sat on the neatly made king sized bed, playing with his fingers. Osel found himself smiling. The prince was so weak and innocent. So easy to manipulate.

Theseus, son of Athenian king Aegeus, was raised in a city near southern Greece. His mother was told by his father that if he was born a boy and became strong enough to move a boulder that guarded a sword and a pair of shoes, he could come back to Athens and claim that he is the son of Aegeus. Theseus accomplished this task easily and was ready to set off for Athens. His grandfather had a ship prepared to take him straight to Athens; however, just like his cousin Hercules, Theseus wanted to prove himself as a great hero and take risks. Theseus walked to Athens and killed every bandit in site; killing them in the ways that they killed their victims. Upon his arrival to Athens, Theseus was treated like a hero and caused the king to worry that this hero, who he didn't know was his son,

These ostentatious demonstrations recall Solon’s poetic censure of the “unjust” accumulation of wealth, and of arrogant rulers. Croesus’s arrogance is further reflected in his sole question to Solon, “who is the happiest man you have ever seen?” (14), which he expects Solon to answer with a simple “you”. Much to his surprise, Solon gives a complex reply that concludes “man is entirely a creature of chance”, and that neither wealth, power, nor immediate pleasure define happiness, rejecting Croesus’s idea that his influence and military success make him happy. In keeping with his arrogance, Croesus’s wholly dismisses the advice, Solon is a “fool” (16), however, “after Solon’s departure, nemesis fell upon Croesus. (16)” The juxtaposition of Solon leaving and the arrival of nemesis is intentional, it underscores the connection between Croesus ignoring Solon and the arrival of negative outcomes, but the speed of Croesus’s transition from success to failure supports Solon’s earlier point, the importance of “chance” in human

Stopping when he got to Titus, the king looked the young boy for a moment, turned started to walk away. Stopping he looked the boy again. He has seen the young lad scurrying around the cattle from time to time. He recalled, was always on the move looking as if he had some place to go. And, he remembered every time he saw him; he had a smile, and a kind word for anyone he met.

In certain situations, an ambiguous ending is the perfect way to end a book, offering the reader something to think on while awaiting for the next instalment or it may be fitting for the mood of the novel to provide no true closure to the story. However in Margret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel where the narrator describes everything she thinks, does, or doesn’t do with an impressive amount of detail, it is amazingly frustrating for the book to take an unexpected turn to uncertainty in its final chapters.