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    The Handmaid's Tale

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    We first start seeing the changes in the movie The Handmaid’s Tale. Before it was a movie it was a book written by Margaret Atwood in 1984 and published in 1986. The book won two awards: The Governor General's Award in 1985 and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. In 1990, because of the book’s popularity it was made into a movie. The movie has the same setting as the book, a dystopic world in America where religion and state are mixed while fertility is in high demand. The heroine, Offred, in an

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    XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX ENGL 252-01 28 November 2012 Thoughts on Feminism and Dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale The Annotated Bibliography Dopp, Jamie. "Subject-Position as Victim-Position in The Handmaid's Tale." Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne [Online], 19.1 (1994): n. page. Web. 27 Nov. 2012 Dopp believes that Dopp believes that the goal of The Handmaid’s Tale is to work against the oppression of women, While he feels that is actually does the

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    Interpreting The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale is distinguished by its various narrative and structural divisions. It contains four different levels of narrative time: the pre-Revolution past, the time of the Revolution itself, the Gileadean period, and the post-Gileadean period (LeBihan 100). In addition, the novel is divided into two frames, both with a first person narrative. Offred's narrative makes up the first frame, while the second frame is provided by the Historical Notes, a transcript

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    People require energy to function. Energy is provided by fuel. For humans, fuel is not simply food and water, but rather, love and a sense of meaning. This is the truth; life is not complete without love. In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, handmaid is the name given to a women placed within a Commander’s home for the purpose of reproduction. Offred is the narrator of this dystopian society, and she bears the burden of being separated from her husband and daughter to fulfill her new role

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    Opressing The Opressed From the days of the cavemen to now, societies have systematically oppressed people for various reasons. Oppression has happened to Jews in Germany, slaves during Christopher Columbus’s days, slaves in the early 1900s in America, etc. When people systematically oppress one another, it leads to internal oppression of the oppressed. This is evident in Margaret Atwood’s book, The Handmaid’s Tale. This dystopian fiction book is about a young girl, Offred, who lives in Gilead, a

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    Dystopian Research Essay: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood In the words of Erika Gottlieb "With control of the past comes domination of the future." A dystopia reflects and discusses major tendencies in contemporary society. The Handmaid 's Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. The novel follows its protagonist Offred as she lives in a society focused on physical and spiritual oppression of the female identity. Within The Handmaid 's Tale it is evident that through the

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    A Tale of Commodities and Relevance In Margaret Atwood 's book, The Handmaid 's Tale, the women in the book often find themselves at the mercy of men and being used for the purpose of fulfilling man 's needs. They are more seen as property, than as humans themselves. The women are systemically ranked for amount of use in the household and women who can give birth are often high ranked, but not given much freedom. Over they do everything and are allowed nothing. The woman are not allowed to read

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    Comparing a book to the movie that is a product of that book is always a difficult thing, but with The Handmaid’s Tale the novel and movie were quite similar. Set in the near future, in a totalitarian society post overthrowing of the United States government, The Handmaid 's Tale explores the idea that people will endure oppression willingly as long as they receive some slight amount of power or freedom in return. This can be seen prominently in both the film and novel. However, although the overall

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    According to the traditional values of a patriarchal society, women should conform to the desires of men. Being submissive and keeping quiet are what men who idealize patriarchism appreciate the most. Such characteristics lead men to have an advantage over the rights of women, making them feel more dominant and superior to women. This male privilege controls women, preventing them from attaining their freedom. There are many ways that men control women, such as intimidation and violence, which guides

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    In The Calcutta Chromosome, Ghosh provides a multi-pronged exploration of the issue of identity. In this novel, he is concerned with the contrast between the Western and Eastern cultural mind set of the people, the economic and political vulnerability of women minorities and other marginalized people. He is concerned with identity at its most basic level that is a whole human being replicated from a single sample of DNA. The malarial protozoan is self-replicating when it has exhausted its food source

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