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their own. “My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses anymore because it’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter” (Atwood 84). The government has brainwashed these women into believing that they do not really matter and they have no real purpose. The government has taken away their names and given them the names of their Commander. In

following 9/11 and America’s invasion of Iraq, a Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood, wrote Letter to America and submitted it to The Nation. Atwood’s letter stresses her concerns about where America’s economy and politics are going, as well as how it is affecting Canadians. The beginning of her letter addresses the great things America is known for, such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comic books, Huckleberry Finn, and great music. Atwood then begins to criticize our economy and talk about the wrong things

Margaret Atwood establishes a dystopian, futuristic society in her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, where the people have specific roles to follow. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a dystopian society is “an imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible” (“Dystopia”). This “bad as possible” seems to be very demeaning for the Handmaids, upsetting for the Commanders’ wives, and confusing for the Commanders themselves; however, delving into Atwood’s mindset while she was

How far is too far when it comes to genetically modified organisms? Margaret Atwood shares her view on GMOs in Oryx and Crake. Atwood often expresses distaste for these altered organisms through her examples of pigoons and other genetically modified foods, which are still relatively new in our society. Despite more commonly occurring dislike from Atwood, she sees a few positives to GMOs. Although GMOs can increase food supply with higher yields, genetically modified organisms should be regulated

People always think of the future as a better place to go and be a part of, but as Margaret Atwood says it best in The Handmaid’s Tale “better never means better for everyone… it always means worse, for some” (Atwood 211). Atwood portrays a fictional futuristic dystopia, where women have limited education, limited freedoms, and more responsibilities. Atwood uses literary devices such as character development, setting, motifs, conflicts, symbolism, flashbacks, and theme to express the repression and

featuring Ronald Reagan’s “Reaganomics” and the rise of the Christian Right Movement. This movement exhibited social desires to uphold religious and conservative ideals and aimed to cast out the feminist agenda altogether. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dark fabrication of what could happen if this Christian movement had succeeded in taking over America, exhibiting a pseudo-religious society named Gilead that functions off of submissive women who are merely viewed as wombs for bearing children

the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood explores feminism through the themes of women’s bodies as political tools, the dynamics of rape culture and the society of complacency. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939, at the beginning of WWII, growing up in a time of fear. In the autumn of 1984, when she began writing The Handmaid’s Tale, she was living in West Berlin. The Berlin Wall had not yet fallen and in her travels “behind the Iron Curtain” (Atwood, 2017) she experienced “the wariness, the

In reading the first three chapters of Margaret Atwoods “A Handmaid’s Tale”, many thoughts came to mind. The first thing I noticed was the symbolism expressed through the wardrobe the Handmaid’s are forced to wear, which are red dresses that are designated for their role. Red itself represents sin, blood as well as menstruation and fertility: demonstrating the significance of the handmaid’s attire. Next thing I noticed was the loss of identity these women had. In becoming handmaids their identity

Assassin in 2001. She founded a nonprofit literary organization which encouraged Canada’s writing community. Margaret Atwood is often thought as a feminist writer as she in her most of the works highlights the issues faced by

YOU FIT INTO ME -Margaret Atwood ABOUT THE POET Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she has also published fifteen books of poetry. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age. “You fit into me You fit into me Like a hook into an eye A Fish hook An open eye” ANALYSIS The