An Inconvenient Truth Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale tells a story of mystery, passion, and lies. The novel is about a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead named Offred (“Of Fred”). The Republic is the totalitarian remains of the United States after the president and members of Congress were assassinated by the architects of Gilead to ultimately gain complete control. Offred and the other handmaids were once regular women leading regular lives, that is, until Gilead. In the time of Gilead, the women were taken from their homes where they were brainwashed by speeches from their “Aunts” who argued that “such a social order ultimately offers the women more respect and safety then the old, pre-Gilead society offered them” (Sparknotes).
In the play, the women take matters into their own hands by hosting a sex strike; they are determined to win the war by themselves. Lysistrata is seen to be the leader of this great adventure and a whole new look on anti-war gestures are seen. Aristophanes makes the play about making war, and not making love. The sex strike is strung out for six days, at the Acropolis. Overall, the women were upset that their men were never home, thus making an unbalance in their family, leading to an unbalance in society.
There’s no doubt about it our narrator is one tough lady. Mama starts the story recalling the dreams she often has in which she and Dee reunites on a television talk show. In this dream she has described herself almost as if it is the woman that she wished she was. For example she states she is “a hundred pounds lighter, her skin like an uncooked barley pancake.” Although she says the way she looks in the dream is the way her
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In Eudora Welty’s “Why I live at P.O.”, Sister, the narrator, tries to alter the viewpoints of the reader to shape their interpretations to match the bias and the animosity towards the family. People often allow their perceptions to be influenced by a self-serving bias that can jade the depth of reality. In her reality, Sister is the victim that gets ridiculed by her family especially her sister Stella-Rondo whom she harbors a jealousy. Sister claims her life was “fine” before Stella-Rondo shows up and interrupts everything. She describes Stella-Rondo be inconsistent and unstable based on her being spoiled when they were children.
This quote “[…] Let either of you breathe a word and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” Shows her desperation and truly violent mind while she tries to control the mistake she’s made, but to control this mistake she must control those around her who know of it. No one would dare to expose her if they feared so terribly, Abigail uses this to her advantage. At the end of the trials Abigail was beginning to be revealed by townspeople who found out that she was the main accuser. When she found out about this she decided to take all of Parris’ money, and run away from Salem with Tituba. This leaves the reader wondering, but can only assume what will happen to
Moreover, when Reverend Parris confronts Abigail about being fired by Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail denies any wrongdoings. She accuses Elizabeth as “a lying, cold, sniveling women” who spreads rumor about to degrade her social status. Abigail’s motivation in the witchcraft is thus revealed, which is jealousy towards Elizabeth. As Abigail successfully frames other people for being responsible about the witchcraft, she further imposes her domination over the other girls. Her domination is demonstrated physically and verbally.
All of Alvarez’s book are situation based surrounding horrifying experiences of girls during there lives in the tyranny of the Dominican Republic, under Trujillo’s bloody rule, and their assimilation into American culture. In the case of Anita, the main character of Before We Were Free, her home life in the Dominican is endangered by her parent’s involvement in attempting to over throw the dictator. This is the perspective from those who stayed, when the rest of the family fled the dangers of righteous entanglements fall upon those who stayed. In the Garcia Girl’s their uncle is the one wrapped up in dangerous behaviors and so they’re immediate family flees. This story is from the perspective of these who got away, safely.
The Worst Villain In Ken Kesey’s, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, the reader sees how a mental institution is controlled by a corrupt system. Nurse Ratched is the true villain in the story because of the way she treats the men with her pure evil, and dark, cold heart. She humiliates the men, and takes their dignity away. She goes against everything they believe in. In essence she is a dictator and takes advantage of the other workers, and the patients.
This shows Abigails desire to belong not only to proctor but also within the community, by taking Elizabeth’s position. Thomas Putnam seeks revenge on Francis Nurse by accusing his wife, Rebecca, of murdering Ann Putnam’s babies through supernatural means. This shows us that Thomas Putnam is accusing Rebecca nurse of murdering Ann Putnam’s babies in order to feel a sense of belonging in the community and create anarchy in the community. In Act four, Reverend Hale reports that the town is in great confusion because of the hysteria, using visual images of homeless orphans wondering the streets, abandoned cattle and rotting crops, showing that no one belongs in