Courtney Roberts Ap English Independent Assignment The Handmaid’s Tale Content 1: Night (1) • People called Aunts guard the people. • Five characters introduced. • They secretly talk at night. • Setting is in a gym with a fence around it. • Yearning- longing for something • Handmaid camp. • Short chapter. Content 2: Shopping (2-6) • Serena was in a gospel singing and gardened. • Nick flirts with Offred. • Fraternize- behave like a brother • Multiple colored uniforms. • Serena wants Offred
Throughout the novel, it is clear that Gilead is not a society compromised of individuals; rather it is a society where people are thought to be a collective group: “That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that’s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before” (Atwood 192-193). Offred reflects back on the killing of her cat where Luck was the killer
An analysis of multiple books through a period of the 20th century were the best sources in which to compare the most recent forms of social constructions of gender and how that influences fictional writing. For this reason, the historical context in which each author is writing is also important. The books used are, Herland written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1915, followed by the dystopian fiction Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1932, and the final novel The Handmaid’s Tale written
Contrastingly, Rossetti originally claimed that ‘Goblin Market’ was a fairytale, suggesting that she perceives the events as being far removed from her society. Some of the biblical imagery in Goblin market suggests that in a patriarchal world unjust laws separate and divide people into hierarchies, this claim is backed up as Christina Rossetti believed that the only place where this was not the case was: "in Christ where there is neither male nor female, for we are all one", portraying her desire
Character Analysis- Offred In analyzing the character traits in Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale, I noticed the following characteristics or traits about Offred. She operates as the main character in this futuristic tale. Some of the characteristics that are most evident include her ability to see the future and the past through flashbacks and reflections that other characters could not do. Case-in-point: the rules of Gilead versus the rules of today in American society. This paper will analyze the main