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Kevin Rooney The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood 3 March 2017 Summary: In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, a handmaid Offred is the narrator and the protagonist throughout the book, and the story is told through her point of view. Offred serves the Commander. This all takes place in Gilead, which is a totalitarian and theocratic state that has supposedly replaced the United States. Along with serving the Commander, Offred also serves his wife, Serena Joy, who is a former

Oxley Morgan Ms. Milliner EES21QH-05 10/19/16 Novel Essay In the story “The Handmaid's Tale” by Margaret Atwood use certain language throughout the novel to express the meaning of the story. Margaret makes the reader imagine the setting of the story by providing imagery as a way of expressing her view points. However even though some scene are unclear she makes her central idea very clear to the reader. She goes on to make the characters language meaningful and full of power.

If Atwood had given her a strong personality such as Ofglen’s, readers would not be able to see the extent to which a person can gradually compromise to extreme regime would not be as clear as they are in the story with Offred as the narrator. Author, as well

“You Fit into Me” is a poem written by Margaret Atwood, who is an acclaimed Canadian poet, novelist, and literary critic from Ottawa, Ontario born in 1939. The poem is from a collection of her works titled “Selected Poems (1965 - 1975)”, meaning it was written sometime during her marriage to American writer Jim Polk that ended with divorce in 1973; this poem may have been influenced by that relationship and their drift apart from each other. “You Fit into Me” is a relatively short poem at only 16

Margaret Atwood: “Happy Endings” Research Forests are home to the wandering souls, lost in the transition of the afterlife forming an abyssal of kept secrets never to be heard or seen by the naked eye. Growing up in northern Quebec, Margaret Atwood became a spirit of the forest. Atwood best displays her inner wilderness in “Happy Endings.” Not written as the conventional short story, “Happy Endings,” includes several outcomes with one reality. This reality symbolizes her own life through the tribulations

and extinction that Gilead supposedly provides her, she fails to advocate on behalf of her own beliefs. In Gilead, authority figures see intimate interactions between the sexes as an obstacle to their nebulous war. Doubly obscuring Offred’s sight, Atwood describes men in a “dark-tinted” van wearing “dark glasses” (22). Offred knows that the men in

In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood depicts a fictional dystopia in which the American democracy has been overthrown by conservative religious extremists due to dangerously low reproduction rates. To “further” the society and “combat” the birth shortage, the new government implements completely new standards into men and women’s lives. In the book, the protagonist, Offred faces societal standards restricting her ability to love and her education; she reacts passively opposes both standards.

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood is a story of fiction that takes place in a future where the ability to reproduce healthy babies is scarce. The novel focuses on a future where traditional values are strictly enforced by a totalitarian government leaving women powerless. This dystopia touches upon several aspects of life that shape society such as religion, government, gender roles, equality and more. Margaret elaborates on the outcome of a society that solely depends on traditional roles and

In the book, Atwood tells the reader how women were used as political instruments. The state in the story is rigid politically, and its structure is based on controlling reproduction as the birth rates were too few in the state. The women’s’ duties were to reproduce. The state or government here oppresses women by controlling their rights to own property, be employed; voting rights and all other rights that would liberate them from subjectivity were banned. They were not supposed to be independent

the short story “Happy Endings,” Margaret Atwood briefly describes six different scenarios about the relationships of her two main characters John and Mary. Regardless of the different circumstances, all of the stories end in the exact same way—the characters die. The primary argument that Atwood is trying to illustrate is that the ending of one’s life is not what is important, but rather all of the components of their life that lead them to the end. Atwood also criticizes the existing marriage and