The Handmaid's Tale Chapter 2

The story is about 2 guys name Ulrich and Georg. They were enemies and they hated each other. Ulrich was going to confront Georg face to face until lightning struck a tree and the tree fell down onto Georg and Ulrich. They were really injured, but they were still alive. They started talking to each other about both being caught, but not dead. Ulrich said when his men come to release them, that Georg will be in a better plight than being caught poaching on a neighbors land. They argued back and forth about their men coming to save them. They had already given up trying to free themselves from the tree that was on top of them. One of Ulrichs arms were free and he pulled out his flask that had wine in it. Ulrich offered Georg some wine but Georg

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.

After reading 1 Kings 17:1-6 I have gathered some very interesting things that the Lord has spoken to me. Elijah said “There will be no rain or dew unless I speak the word.” This means that unless I speak something over my life or over anything in general nothing will happen because I am a child of God and I have that much power. God tells Elijah to leave the place he is at and go eastward and drink from the brook. If he goes and drinks from the brook the raven will be there to supply food for him.

“I think about laundromats. What I wore to them: shorts, jeans, jogging pants. What I put into them: my own clothes, my own soap, my own money, money I had earned myself. I think about having such control. Now we walk along the same street, in red pairs, and no man shouts obscenities at us, speaks to us, touches us. No one whistles. There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.” (24)

Wacobi was telling himself her name out loud, he said Gladys DANNELLE….she’s beautiful…..his mother over heard him and asked who is Gladys DANNELLE, one of our cousins, he tells her, no my future new wife….Willa said where did you meet her, around the corner, he tells her no, she lives in Utah and she will be here in a month…

describes a very real reality in modern day America. In America and other parts other world,

When a high school jock with the perfect life, wakes up one morning with a beast that only he can see chained to his wrist, he must learn to adapt to creature bent on destroying his life, or give into its fiendishness and give up his once perfect life.

Upon reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, one notices the tragedy of women losing rights. Imagine the feelings of losing all rights and freedoms; how hard the transition would be from an American society, centered on freedoms, to the society where Offred lives in The Handmaid’s Tale. Thankfully for all Americans, Atwood’s prediction of what society would become in the future was inaccurate. But, not all countries enjoy the same freedoms and luxuries as America does; the treatment of women in Middle Eastern societies, more specifically Iran, is similar to that of The Handmaid’s Tale. Although the current situation in Iran and The Handmaid’s Tale might seem quite different, as one is a futuristic dystopian novel and the other is

We crept behind like inchworms across a leaf and shivered in the soggy air, listening to the trolls seethe and howl.

In The Handmaids Tale, Offred is a thirty-three year old woman living in the Republic of “Gilead [which has] return[ed] to the Old Testament in a reaction against abortion, sterilization and what they consider to be dangerous kinds of freedom of the modern welfare state”(Sweets & Zeitlinger 455). The women of Gilead are now forced to play secondary roles to that of the men in the community, and wear specific colored dresses to represent the role that has been assigned to them, or “In other words, the new rulers equate the value of something and someone solely with validity, usefulness, functionality, economic profit” (Sweets & Zeitlinger 457). Commanders are rich men who are the head of the household. Each Commander has a Wife who wears blue

He had a wonderful wife, a beautiful home, and a fantastic job as a composer. He lived in a small town in England, and had lived there for his 28 years of mortal life. Then one day, he met a mysterious hooded person.

Nadia just came to class two days after the incident and I still confused with the girl who I saw at Nadia’s house. Since then, I noticed that Nadia always tried to avoid me. Whenever I bumped into her, she would low down her face and did not want to make eye contact with me. Since then, I eventually understood that the girl that I saw was actually Nadia. The reason I did not recognized her because her face was different than I used to see. At that moment, she showed up with her bare face without make-up. Her flawless face that I used to see actually had a few acne and blemish at some spots on her face. Her eyebrows which had a few hairs on it and thin made her seemed did not have eyebrows at all. She also got panda’s eyes and not clears like

Published in 1985, Margaret Atwood’s satirical novel The Handmaid’s Tale explores the dystopian world of Gilead through the eyes of Offred, a handmaid. As Offred acclimates to her role as handmaid, she discusses the political developments that led to her current circumstances, and the path that she was forced through as a result. Formerly known as the United States of America, Gilead was established after a massacre of the president and Congress, when a Christian fundamentalist group seized power. Gilead, transformed into a theocracy built on ideals of patriarchy, totalitarianism, and censorship, and the fundamentalist regime stripped rights from women by forbidding them to read and forcing them into traditional roles. Additionally, due

After dinner the night before, the Prince had been called away and Ashella was left to herself. At breakfast, neither the Prince nor the King were in attendance, and she had began to worry that something was wrong. A few hours after breakfast, a servant entered her room and told her the Prince was waiting for her in the garden.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor’s thirteenth chapter captures the beauty of how authors write of politics without the explicitness of declaring it as political writing. It takes talent, and Thomas C. Foster speaks of it when he suggests examples that perfectly engage this type of writing. He did not mention The Handmaid’s Tale, though, the 1985 dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic place in time where a majority of the female population are infertile. To alleviate the population decrease, unmarried women with the ability to conceive are bought as “handmaids” and serve couples by bearing their children. The novel is classified as fiction, but the strong presence of gender inequality