The present paper focusses on Atwood’s widely acclaimed and thought provoking novel ‘‘The Handmaid’s Tale’’(1985)focused on the theme of the domination and ruthless governing of women by men. The novel presents a world where freedom of women is impeded on account of the new Christian Government’s extreme policies.It portrays a futuristic picture of the new republic that throws away the U.S. Constitution and establishes the Republic of Gilead in which women are viewed only as reproductive machines.Portraying females as the leading characters, and environmental crisis as its background, the novel depicts people suffering from tragic environmental pollution in a totalitarian country.It is a place where the females are forced into a submissive position leading the whole society fall into abnormality. The aim of the paper is to evaluate ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’as an ecofeminist novel. The purpose is to assess the patriarchal domination of women and the capitalistic exploitation of nature in the Republic of Gilead. Dualism and patriarchy are harmful to both nature and societyand are the root of all misery.
“She is a force. Like a hurricane.” (The Marriage of Opposites.46) Motherhood and relation with nature are the most obvious issue in this novel by Hoffman. She illustrates the true emotion of mothers through their children and also the suffering and pain that caused by male society. They try to release themselves from the restraints of the social and political rules to have the life they expect. One of the crucial problems we face today is the decadence of the nature that its social consequences on human life.
Frank believes that the women are a weaker sex and always needs to be protected by the strong and dominant male. This is a rather ironic trait of him as he is actually a she due to “his” father feeding her testosterone to make her a male. Frank kills animals and collects their heads to put on his sacrificial poles, creates mini wars between Mussels and Dead Flies and has an invention he dubs as “The Wasp Factory”.
the way I know this is because in both, they talk about the girl not wanting to be with the guy. In "Breakeven" it says, "Her best days were some of my worst she finally met a man that 's gonna put her first". This line says that the days she was happy he wasn 't. I think that means that the days she was happy, she was with somebody else. So whenever she was with somebody else he wasn 't because he was still in love with her.
Oryx and Crake, especially, utilizes almost hyperbolic predictions of scientific innovation as evidence of a deeper self-destructive nature, and as justification for fear. As a result, Atwood criticizes this death drive by imbuing her society’s tenants, culture, and interpersonal relationships with this sense of inevitable self-destruction. Regarding the compounds, Atwood foreshadows a
Plath also breaks the assumption that mother experiences spontaneous overflow of an unparallel and incomparable love for the child, when she writes about how different the act of making a child is from the reality of the child. A woman comes together with a man because of her love for him, hence “love sets” the child (compared to a gold watch) “going”, however that love for the father is not extended to the reality of the child. Hence, Plath shows that how her love for her child developed over time and how she initially felt distant from the child. The tone in the poem “Morning song” is distant. The poet does not feel any love or attachment towards the child.
Lauren views the people of Robledo, as deflective and isolative thinkers. They refuse to adapt to the environment around them and instead wish to dream about the good old days. Lauren views this neglectful behavior, as a coping mechanism. Eventually, it leads to the community 's untimely demise. In her writings, of Earthseed, Lauren postulates “People tend to give in to fear and depression, to need and greed.
Lauren views the people of Robledo, as deflective and isolative thinkers. They refuse to adapt to the environment around them and instead wish to dream about the good old days. Lauren views this neglectful behavior, as a coping mechanism. Eventually, it leads to the community 's untimely demise. In her writings, of Earthseed, Lauren postulates “People tend to give in to fear and depression, to need and greed.
Lord of the Flies has many parallels with our real world both historically and currently in 2018 with leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Kim Jon Un, who have proven that mankind itself is the principal threat to our civilisation because of man’s inner evil and greed for power. I will today convince you how the main threats to civilisation and social order both in the play and our real world is definitely humanity itself. “Which is better - law and rescue or hunting and breaking things up? To have rules and agree or to hunt and kill like a pack of savages?” These powerful questions are asked by Piggy in Act 3 of the play to the group of boys on top of the mountain just before he is murdered by Roger. These questions go to the core of the main theme in the play – the conflict between civilisation and savagery.
Most perfectionists hate to make mistakes. When they do, they feel so guilty that they will feel downhearted for weeks, or even months, or maybe years! This is especially when it relates to their career. I once made a very terrible mistake on my career. Well, I successfully ruined it.