Margaret Atwood Surfacing Essay

Author’s Style: Describe the author’s syntax and diction. If you don’t know what these mean or how to apply them, just describe how the author describes events and/or characters. The author uses amplification and ekphrastic literary device to describe the surroundings of the protagonist. The author tends to show the protagonist point of view with lots of explaining and metonymies to make the text seem more interesting. Sometimes the additional information the author inputs to help with imagery

because she doesn't want to think too much about her past life, as it could lead to her going insane due to how much she’s been brainwashed. Ofred hasn’t been brainwashed by choice, so technically she isn’t passive towards her oppression. This could be Atwood imputing her own opinions of society, that women are oppressed to the point where they’re no longer able to realise that they’re in an oppressive

concerns for the future. The novel describes the life story of protagonist Offred through her first person narrative and use of flashbacks and Atwood primarily portrays gender roles through her use of language and symbolism throughout the novel, which reiterate the oppressive and authoritarian state that the handmaids are obliged to live in. Similarly, Atwood portrays largely negative attitudes towards hierarchy through the use of techniques such as

In the Handmaids tale, Nick is a mysterious, and very important character within the novel. He takes on the risk of having a sexual affair with Offred, and leaves readers curious at the end of the book. We are left unknowing of his intensions. We do know that Nick does have sexual intercourse with Offred but we don’t really know if he is using her or not, or if he even has any feelings for her. Nick is a Guardian, a low-level officer of Gilead. He is a chauffeur and a gardener. Nick, like Offred

Margaret Atwood’s text, The Handmaid’s Tale, centers around the potential outcome of a world ruled under an austere theocratic government, whose power is sustained through harsh violence, incessant observation of the people, and the re-educating of the people being governed. With the creation of this fictional, dystopian society, Atwood addresses prospective issues that would be related to a society such as the Republic of Gilead. One of the more significant issues that arises early in the novel

of how difficult The Ceremony is for the Handmaids. In other words, they allow the Handmaids to take out their anger from their own rape that occurs during the Ceremony. The killing of rapists is justified as it is found as a law in Deuteronomy 22:23-29. During the novel Offred mentions a tattoo that she was given “…the small tattoo on my ankle. Four digits with an eye, a passport in reverse. It’s supposed to guarantee that I will never be able to fade, finally, into another landscape. I am

oppression. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Offred is a handmaid has not seen her daughter and Luke. Offred demonstrates that love can lead to depression with flashbacks and point of view of not seeing her husband Luke and her daughter whom she both utterly loved. Thoughts and memories are the only reasons Offred reminds herself of her daughter. Offred has a daughter, since she states, ‘“She fades I can’t keep her with me’”(Atwood 64). Offred's flashback remembers she once had

As the novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, comes to an end, the main character, Offred, says, “Tonight I will say my prayers.” The irony of religion in the novel is astounding to me because it focuses on religion so much to actually be so wrong about what the Bible says. The story takes place in Gilead, which is a city that used to be in the United States, that is now a theocracy— a government in which there is no separation between state and religion. In this future setting, after the democratic government

In Margret Atwood’s novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred shares her experience in the Republic of Gilead as a woman stripped of what she once knew and the becoming of a housemaid. As the story begins, we find that the regime strategically encroaches the rights of women, their independence, and seizes anything they thought to be pleasurable deeming it contraband. Offred remembers a time when she was married to her husband Luke with a job and had her own financial backing. However, one day it is altered

In a “A Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, readers see a world go from what it once used to be to total totalitarianism. In this now cruel world called Gilead, we see people stripped from their original identities, and no longer free. Furthermore, they are brainwashed to believe and abide by new regulations and rules, and the ones that rebel or no longer are of any use for the government end up dead. Besides the narrator who is now named “Offred” in this new society, her past friend “Moira” from