Discuss how moral and/or ethical issues are explored in at least two of the works you have studied? Handmaid’s Tale and Medea explore the fact that women can both be empowered and how their not being empowered leads to very dangerous rhetoric regarding women’s treatment. In the handmaid’s tale, what is highlighted more specifically is […]
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Last Medea Post
Medea’s Confliction This is the first time Medea is shown being conflicted, rather than her trying to be cunning or manipulative. For once she demonstrates the ability to reason with herself and the emotional pain she feels. But through classical greek argument, she forces herself to kill her children because she thinks if she doesn’t […]
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Examine Medea’s behavior with Creon: what strategies does she use to manipulate him? She attempts to resonate with Creon, she pretends to use her care for her children, so Creon feels some level of sympathy towards her and gives her an extra day before she has to leave. She also begs him to have some […]
PARADOS-The Chorus
Nurse – Provides Backstory Tutor- Acts as somewhat of a consultant Children – Hated by their mother The chorus helps exemplify, the emotional state of Medea. It highlights the strong and constant connection to Greek mythology and how God will help her, on occasion, it also attempts to relate with her. This is shown when […]
Is Handmaid’s Tale a Feminist work of literature
Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is quite frequently referenced as a feminist piece of literature, as it portrays a dystopian reality one where the state has snatched away all rights and powers for women. This connects to feminism because it shows the consequences of remaining complacent, for instance when the state bans women from owning […]
The Politics Of Naming
At the start of, The Handmaid’s Tale, the protagonist of the story is introduced with the name of “Offred”, later on, the reader is introduced to how handmaids are named which is “of” followed by their commander’s name. What this naming paradigm makes apparent is the clear oppression and objectification of women, as it reduces […]
English Post
The Handmaids tale is a dystopian novel set in the near future in United States, Cambridge Massachusetts. The text specifically focuses on the oppression of women after a Christian fundamentalist group arose, to attempt and solve the problem of plummeting birth rates. Treating women as robotic object whose only function, at least in the society […]
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Rightist Headline The hypocrisy of Democrats, Joe Biden Assaulted Women! Leftist Headline: Joe Biden Denies Assault Allegations: “They Never Happened” Centrist Headline: Joe Biden has been accused of sexual harassment. To do this I looked up different newspapers with varying political views, I attempted to embody how different political views would affect reporting on an […]
Reflection of Cov-id19 and its impact of chinese members of our community.
After my conversation with Anda Gu from grade 11, what became apparent from our conversation, was the supportive nature of our school community during a period of crisis. What he said was that he felt like he wasn’t treated any differently after the outbreak of the virus. He felt like this due to the emails […]
Lesson summary of Home Fire and Yumna Al-Arashi body of work
Both media represent aspects of Muslim culture and how women have to deal with pressure differently. In the case of Arashi’s work, isolation is a key factor used to represent independence. In every image, the woman appearing either to fully embrace her faith in religion, however, through the use of techniques there is an addition […]