The Handmaid's Tale: The Legend Of The Devil Making Cats

To be unorthodox one must have bravery, skill, and valor. Straying away from what is expected of oneself is not an easy task, and in The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood unorthodoxy is seen in every turn of the page. In The Handmaids Tale the most unorthodox character is Moira because she shows unorthodoxy in her early days, in her days as a handmaid in Gillead, and in her final days working at Jezebels. Moira shows the vast difficulty of being eccentric in a strictly orthodox society.

Not only do Tasmanian devils have everything they need to survive, but they help humans economically. Their ability to be a vacuum cleaner is just one example of God’s creativity. Tasmanian devils may not be the humorous fictional character from Loony Tunes, but God has still given them many attributes that are unique. Among these things are their behaviors, their strange eating habits, and their survival skills. Seeing all of this, Tasmanian devils can be extremely cool, or extremely terrifying. All of this is a great example of God’s talent, creativity and

Naturally, cats were sacred to Bastet, and to harm one was unlucky and a crime against her. Bastet’s priests kept sacred cats in her temple, which were thought to be incarnations of the goddess. When a cat died, they were mummified and would be presented to the goddess as an offering, sometimes in carved cat shaped vessels.

Have you ever stopped to think, “How would my life change if someone was in total control of it?” How do you think it would change? Do you think it would be difficult living this way? Would people adapt to the environment? What do you think would happen if nobody was in control of their own lives, if we at the mercy of someone else. What if our lives were a prison to our society?

Imagine growing up in a society where all women are useful is to reproduce. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is an excellent novel of what could potentially be the fate of the future one day. The main character, Offred, moves into a new home where she is there to perform “rituals” with the Commander, head of the house, so she can hopefully reproduce herself. The Commander is a key character for he can get rid of Offred if he does not like her and he has all the power. The two end up having a secret relationship where Offred begins to trust him. In the book the Commander is portrayed as a pretty trustworthy character to Offred, however the movie adaptation was the complete opposite. There are three important scenes that portray the Commander differently from the movie in comparison to the book serving to create a different mood.

This art piece is based on a famous illustration by Benjamin Franklin during the revolutionary war. He created this as a symbol for the thirteen colonies, in hopes to create unity during the war against England. After seeing this on my american government field trip I was immediately inspired to create a distorted version of it for the Gilead. One of the main themes in Gilead is unity and coming together for the common good so this image is a perfect inspiration for that. Furthermore, the Gilead evolved from the “time before,” or America as we know it and the United States evolved from the colonies. Both represent an evolution from a previous nation that had a core issue.

terrified to attempt actual magic. This was all just a distraction. Making the Queen believe he was doing something that he was not made him feel guilty. But it was a necessary deception.

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 a base in the real world as well as a historical precedent. Atwood establishes the world of Gilead on historical events as well as the social and political trends which were taking place during her life time in the 1980 's. Atwood shows her

As I read the book, The Handmaid’s Tale, I also thought of our previous lecture on “The Problem with No Name.” Friedan states that women in the past valued their life as being a good wife and mother, sharing power with her husband at home. According to her, most women had ignored the problem that had no name other than one’s wife or one’s mother, but became no longer possible to ignore their desire to find their true self outside of their house. The ignorance of their “name” and the desire to find their identities are aligned with the life of Offred and other handmaids. The Handmaid cannot have their real name which they were given from their parents. Instead, they should take their husband’s name. Because the name of Offred’s commander Fred,

Are you happy mother? You’ve done it; you’ve finally taken from me the one thing I hold so dear. You always used to wonder why I forbade Luc from seeing you. You were always convinced that it was because I thought you were a bad influence on him, because you read dirty books, ate and drank what you wanted and swore like a solider on the battles grounds of war. But no mother it was because I knew that this would happen; I knew that one day you’d leave him; leave us, and all because you were too naïve, too proud to admit you needed the help that le mortwa

And, the writer covers his eyes and imagines while his mind stays awake, what picture his life shall convey when it encompasses a true producing society. Hence, the piercing tune spirals in his last proximate sea of time; running across his interminable waves.

When thinking about an important element of literature like theme, I always see it as what lesson I can learn from the reading. The theme of a piece of literature is not always clear and easy to find because it is about how the reader interprets what he or she has just read. Theme is understood differently from person to person because everyone has different thoughts, beliefs, and values. Finding the theme requires one to dig deep into the reading to find the message that the author is trying to convey to their audience. Theme is about realizing that there is more there then just words and that, in order to fully grasp a text, a person has to open their mind up to a story’s big idea. I will be focusing on the theme of gender and sexuality by analyzing the texts of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen.

In “The Black Cat,” the man was married to a patient and caring woman. They acquired another cat that, according to the man, looked remarkably like Pluto (709). One day, the cat almost tripped the man while they were walking down a flight of stairs. This “exasperated” the man “to madness” (Poe 709). He lifted an axe and “aimed a blow at the animal,” (Poe 709).

Prior to third grade, I had seen pictures of cats that I wasn’t scared of or have any opinion about it. But in third grade, I discovered my fear of cats while watching a cartoon. I saw that cats could serenade people to get what they want from them. I fear cats because their eyes glowed in the dark. The first time I saw a cat glow in the dark, I got terrified because I didn’t understand why a living creature would illuminate in the dark and I hated the animal. I can relate this fear with a popular view of cats in my culture. A myth in my culture explained that cats can be possessed by witches and used to harm people spiritually. So, cats are considered evil and satanic. Keeping cats as pets was not common in my community.

The cat inflicts a slight wound on the hand of the man with his teeth. The man reacts to this by cutting out one of the cat’s eyes. He has done this out of perverseness and says “I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty”. Perverseness is defined as doing something for no other reason than because one knows they should not. The man later hangs the cat from the limb of a tree and later that night, his whole house had burned to the ground except for last one standing wall. On the wall was a figure of a large black cat with a noose around his neck. This represents revenge from the