The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

Spainish took over the Aztec community, which was easy because the Aztecs were unaware this was the reason for their coming. Aztecs people gifted the Spanish because they felt they were worthy or gods. The other communities around Aztec helped the Spanish further their take over due to constant confrintation. The Spanish came to take over everything and get rich basically. The Aztecs were not equipped enough to fight off the Spanish whom had far more advanced weapons then a the Aztecs who had bow and arrows. With the Spanish and the surrounding community coming together Aztec Empire were out numbered which soon lead to their complete take over. Diseases were also a factor in why the Aztec Empire was not able to survive members of their army and leaders were killed by the diseases. Although this played a major part in the decrease of their population it was not the only reason. As part of their belifs Aztec Empire sacarficed their own kind.

How does one define feminism? It means many things to many people. For some it’s more personal, for others it’s the Oxford definition: “the advocacy of women 's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes” (Oxford dictionary). In 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.

Throughout the course of world history on Earth, humans have always worked harder and harder in order to improve society and make it more perfect, although it still hasn’t been done quite yet, because it is merely impossible to achieve perfection in a world with close to seven billion people. There is a very distinct difference between a utopia, which can also be known as perfection, and a dystopia, which can also be known as a tragedy; and the outcomes normally generate from the people in charge or the authority that sets up the foundation, the rules, and the regulations for a society. In the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Republic of Gilead is created by a powerful authority group called the Eyes after a huge government take over and the assassination of the US president. It’s very strict rules and goals are set up to protect women, to increase childbirth, and to keep all violence, men, and powerful social media under control. The novel is set in a first person point of view and the narrator, Offred, tells her story to us readers about her experiences as a handmaid and how her life was completely turned upside down. Throughout the course of the novel Offred reveals many sides of herself; although her thoughts do not remain consistent, her personality and opinion tends to change revealing, that she is hesitant and strong because she learns to make the best of what she has and silently overcome the system of the Republic of Gilead.

The literary masterpiece The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, is a story not unlike a cold fire; hope peeking through the miserable and meaningless world in which the protagonist gets trapped. The society depicts the discrimination towards femininity, blaming women for their low birth rate and taking away the right from the females to be educated ,forbidding them from reading or writing. These appear in Ethan Alter’s observations that:

Enforcers of the regime, such as the Aunts believe that this is a better, safer world for women. One of them states that in the time before, women had freedom to, and now they have freedom from. This means that they will not be raped or abused, they will not be whistled at, and will not have to be scared of anything when walking alone. However, what is happening to them in this new society, is, in reality, much worse. The novel is a shocking look at the future. With an original

In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, one discovers the dystopian society of the Republic of Gilead. This society was created in order to keep the birth rates from the continuous decline and deals with the problem by requiring women to have government-sanctioned sex. Women are only treated as if they are a pair of ovaries and the only purpose that they have is to keep the country populated . If a Handmaid is unable to reproduce, they are punished for their failures. “Having given birth successfully, the Handmaid can rest assured that she will not be sent the Colonies, where ‘unwomen’ clean up toxic dumps and radiation spills. ” (Miner 149). If a Handmaid is unable to do their duties, they are sent away, and there is a great chance they will not return. The sex they are giving to their Commander is in no way romantic, nor is there any real love involved. Offred, a Handmaid, remembers the life she once lived before becoming a Handmaid. The women who become Handmaid’s are given names that are not really 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

In the book The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood, the foremost theme is identity, due to the fact that the city where the entire novel takes place in, the city known as the Republic of Gilead, often shortened to Gilead, strips fertile women of their identities. Gilead is a society that demands the women who are able to have offspring be stripped of all the identity and rights. By demeaning these women, they no longer view themselves as an individual, but rather as a group- the group of Handmaids. It is because of the laws that have been established that individuality has been demolished. From these points that will be raised, it can be concluded that a handmaid’s role in Gilead is more important than their happiness, and mental wellbeing.

Atwood uses dehumanisation throughout this extract as a form of control, by reducing someone to something lower than you would imply you had more power over them and could control them. When Offred referred to herself and the other women as ‘wild animals’, a creature that could not think for themselves, would suggest that they would be needed to be controlled. By using animals as a reference to women Atwood was indirectly foretelling Offred’s fate of fundamentally becoming a caged ‘animal’ who serves to breed. Alternatively, because this extract was a flashback it could suggest that men were still able to dehumanise women even before the regime, which therefore suggests that years’ worth of society conditioning men that they had superior power over women led to centuries of women under the control of men. An example of this conditioning would be when the unknown man replaced the ‘usual women’ at the shop, ‘you do that he said indifferently’ his apathetic response suggests he already had control over Offred’s because she could no longer use her card.

Gundersen organized the book in many different ways. The prominent topics throughout the book were relocation, education, marriage, pregnancy, and constant changing times. The three women she selected belong to different classes, and have come from separate parts of the world. This choice was not by mistake, she chose these three completely separate lifestyles to show that these problems were not only occurring inside of one area or class. She selected these women to represent a whole for all women of this era. All women had to deal with the same problems, maybe not in the same way, but in similar ways.

The Culture of the Youth changes like the glass bottle that breaks into pieces with a loud noise that spreads in split seconds. Even in that moment, the response at the momentous move by the emotions determined by feelings. From the textbook “Hurt 2.0”, Clark describes today’s teen as abandoned. They are “hurt” and living in the world of pain. They basically live in a world “beneath” the world of adults. They have a completely different set of survival skills than what their parents or grandparents experienced. The difference between the two generations cannot be always understandable toward each other, since the culture changes like every second and the borderline that separates the teen world from the adult world is getting deeper. The Culture

In the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”, written by Margaret Atwood, the author details a futuristic dystopia where women have been subjugated and dehumanized to serving the purpose of bearing children in order to equalize the disproportion in declining births due to the effects of the nuclear pollution. The authors in depth analysis conveys the notion of the atrocities women throughout history consistently find themselves enduring through with a male-dominated patriarchal system. Within the Republic of Gilead, women have been denounced as being seen as pure objects of reproduction not as actual beings. The agenda of Gilead has completely disrupted the order of society and refers back to a biblical order of existence. The creators of Gilead aspired to create a regime where women would no longer be

Feminism is described as “the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes” (Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary, 1999). This is a completely foreign concept in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Throughout the story, Offred describes the extreme adversity and negligence of human rights by her peers and superiors in the totalitarian Republic of Gilead. She describes her lack of control of personal choices and opinions, and how she and the other Handmaid’s are seen as simply just sexual objects for the men to use at their disposal. Offred describes her struggles with her lack of freedom of clothing or choice, how the men perceive her as simply a uterus with two legs, and the social effects of being

The author gives question and clue for readers by using allegory. When the main character mentions about “Aunts,” and “Angels,” she tells that “No guns though, even they could not trusted with guns.” (4) The word, they, points Aunt in this sentence literally. The aunts are unusual women in the society of this story because they are involved in high-class even if they are the sexually women. When we think about the setting of this story, we can realize the oddity much faster. The setting in the story shows that the women except aunts always lower than men. Moreover they are used as just tools for men. In this point, readers can have curiosity about the situation with why aunts are different with other women and what things make the differences.

When looking at the different medical procedures, I decided to choose something that I have gone through myself about a year ago which is a tonsillectomy. A tonsillectomy is defined as the surgical removal of the tonsils, two oval-shaped pads of tissue at the back of the throat – one tonsil on each side (Mayo Clinic). This is a procedure that can be suggested for an infection, inflammation, or for sleep-disordered breathing. The desired outcome of this procedure is to help stop infections causing sore throats or help a person breathe better. The tonsils are two lymph nodes at the back of the throat, and they are part of the body’s defense mechanism.

Over the past 200 years sexual liberation and freedom have become topics of discussions prevalent within western culture and society. With the recent exploration of sexuality a new concept of sexual and gender identity has emerged and is being analyzed in various fields of study. The ideology behind what defines gender and how society explains sex beyond biology has changed at a rapid pace. In response various attempts to create specific and catch all definitions of growing gender and sexual minorities has been on going. This has resulted in the concept of gender becoming a multi- layered shifting hypothesis to which society is adapting. Since the 19th-century, philosophers and theorists have continued to scrutinize gender beyond biological and social interpretation. Margaret Atwood 's The Handmaid 's Tale captures the limitations and social implications forced upon a set gender based on societal expectations. Gender is a social construct that limits the individual to the restrictions and traditions of a society, or if it’s an individually formed self-identification of sex and sexuality that is formed autonomously. Evidence of gender establishment can be seen within literary works and supported by various schools of gender and sexuality theory.