Creative Writing: The Handmaid's Tale

traditional communities, particularly in the more remote villages, she is still expected to shave her head and live like an ascetic, sleeping on the ground, living only to fast and pray for her departed spouse. (50)

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke, are three novels that carry important messages when read individually. All three depict the struggle of a young woman to fit into society after traumatic changes, either personal or societal. But putting the novels into context to each other reveals even more similarities than the main characters fate.

In both novels, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Lord of The Flies by William Golding, the three protagonists strive in better comprehending how their current situations/environments and interactions have shaped them into the individuals they have become. In the Handmaid’s Tale, the protagonist, Offred struggles in expressing her ideas, views, and opinions especially in regards to feminism and gender equality. She must speak within imaginary boundaries and limits so that she avoids facing consequences for speaking out against the patriarchal white male Christian society. Her identity is shrouded by the “brainwashing” of women and through the rigidity and strict regime of this “oligarchy”. For example, in her society every person in the social hierarchy from unwomen all the way to the commander are defined and distinguished by the color they wear. Hence, the Commander wears black, the commander’s wife blue, the martha’s green, and the handmaid’s red.Furthermore, their speech is also limited in that they must answer with the same mundane “praise be” to everything spoken to them. In a way, Offred can viewed as a puppet for Gilead because she must act according to society. Society governs when she eats, how she dresses, when she gets to leave the house, when she can visit the doctor, when she can bathe and when she can have sex. Society wants women to have no opinions or ideas for themselves. However, Offred still tries to maintain her identity and sense

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel set in the future United States under a totalitarian Christian theocracy. The story is told by Offred in first person detached. Offred is a Handmaid whose purpose in life is to reproduce for the commanders of the “Sons of Jacob”. The wife of the commander Offred lives with resents Offred and everyone in the house looks down upon Offred. While very isolated and lonely, the commander soon starts meeting her in private. The commander’s wife, Offred recognizes as a former movie star, Serena Joy, persuades Offred to meet a lower rank soldier in hopes Offred will conceive his child. Offred starts to grow feelings for the lower rank commander. Offred begins to grow feelings for the soldier. Offred

“There were Bibles in the dresser drawers, put there by some charitable society, though I doubt anyone ever read them” (Atwood 51). The society depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) was everything but that. Following a coup’ d'etat by religious extremists in Eastern America, women could no longer handle money, were forbidden from having property, and were no longer permitted to read (Atwood). This antithetical society to the modern age held extreme parallels to 1980’s religious conservatism, caused by a movement that could only be galvanized by the maturing unrest among those who have had their ideals attacked. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s attempted to convey her fear of this backlash to second-wave feminism and the frivolity

Written in 1986, during the beginning of the feminist movement’s opposition, Margret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale. This novel, which contemplates on the 1980’s political group, The New Right movement and it’s severe antifeminist messages, provides a bleak future on what might had followed if they had succeeded in getting power: Women getting reduced into being mere objects. Atwood wrote this novel as a warning to warn society about what females stand to lose if feminism was to fail. The masculine authority within The Republic of Gilead, assigns women to various classes and their functions: The Aunts, The Handmaids, The Martha’s, and The Econo-wives.

In the instant before the knife intrudes her skin, she remembers the happiness and how she ruined it with sadness. She thinks about how she distanced herself from them, the people that have been most important to her. The lies she told when she said she was fine and knowing she should have told the truth, that she wants to die. She remembers the memories of how happy she had been and how happy she made people, how she destroyed it. Thinking how much better it would be to end the pain she causes herself and others. Remembering be called crazy, awful awful crazy. She wishes this life of hers to end, to end the anger, to end the simple surviving. She wishes to feel something emotional, something more. She doesn’t feel like she knows she should, she doesn’t have enough emotion,

The prince was a tall, young man with watchful blue eyes and long coppery hair. He had gone impulsively to hunt. Ian could think of nothing like responsibility or duty. He could only think of leaving the palace for an hour or a day. The company had met the king's messenger half-way across Sirle. The message was accompanied by a troop of guards to make sure that Ian did not ignore it. Come home, it said tersely. Now. Ian was not surprised, and he was too weary to fend for himself. So he let fortune, in the shape of the king's guards, bring him back.

Once Upon a time there was these two monsters that lived in a cave in the deep dark forest. They would go out at night and scare people. The people would then run away screaming. The two monsters, then heard this noise coming from the woods. They went to see what was making the noise. As they were walking they saw a horse but did not hear the noise any more. They thought it was the horse that was making the noise. But as they stood there and watched the horse, they heard the noise again. This time they saw something moving in the distance. As the thing got closer, they saw that it was a giant lizard. As the lizard got closer and closer to the horse, the horse scared the lizard away. The two monsters, then went up to the horse. The horse had a saddle on it, but no one was to be found. The

I awoke from my trance in a place that could not have been my beautiful kingdom. I was in a room that was shaped like a leaf; stalagmites and stalactites lined the ceiling and floor, a large, leaf-shaped stone lay in the center of the room, and a plate with a speck of a meal sat atop it.

Once they reached Hytocron, it wasn't too long of a wait before the king appeared with the relia. He looked irritated, Kialsi of course hadn't been here for their initial meeting, but she got the idea. They had agreed to the tournament and it seemed like the king hadn't expected them to win. He said that thanks to them he'd be considered the worst king in history, but quite frankly, by gambling with the relia he'd made himself the worst king already.

Many, many years ago, like about 500 hundred, a king was hunting in the forest when he saw a wild boar. He chased the boar for a very long time. He thought that the boar’s head would be very fine stuffed and hanging on his wall. His men didn’t keep up with him. When it starting getting dark he realized he was lost and alone. He looked for the way home, but it was useless. He searched and wandered but he was lost. He had chased that boar so long there was no way he could find his way out of the forest in the dark. When he was about to give up, he saw an old woman walking toward him. She was very old and very ugly. She even nodded her head aimlessly and hobbled as she walked. He thought maybe she could be a witch. As she walked closer he

The novel is written in first person point of view. In first person point of view, we are brought into the mind and world of the main character, Offred. This allows the reader to experience moments and memories as vividly as she does. Ultimately, the reader bonds and sympathizes with Offred.

There once was a boy name Joule that lived the life of a wizard. He had not chosen this fate yet he was born into it. His father was a great wizard that fought for his kingdom yet one day the queen was killed and the second in command had a dear hardened for wizards unlike the queen before him. Now that Joule and his father Dermpath have been thongue out of the kingdom they now live a life of outcast. Until one day when the king needs Dermpath help in fighting the army of orcs lead by Malabar the orc king. When fighting the father is captured and is trapped in the orc castle. Joule knows that he must save his father because without him he is nothing and is helpless.

They stood facing each other for a few moments, and then, so abruptly Eliza didn’t know what was happening until it was happening, Gregory lurched forward and grabbed the back of her head. He pressed his lips against hers, and to her surprise she found herself responding to him. She breathed deeply as they kissed, and his hands moved through her hair and his hard body pressed against hers.