| Handmaid's tale essay-read this horrible essay!!
It's for UVA-I suck at grammar and am a horrible writer. Please help me to fix it!! I don't want this to stop me from getting in!!
I was scared, my very first IB English class. How hard is it supposed to be? I kept asking myself. And there it was, Handmaid's tale, taking my first step into the world of English literature. The first thing I was was women covered in red, staring blankly at white, tall wall, on the cover of the book. Oh, what a depressing story must this be, I thought. But to my surprises, it left me with feeling of englightment, not a despair or an anger.
Atwood's strong point is satire, often hilarious, often very pointed. Humor is in short supply in this novel, but it is a satire nonetheless.
The constant contrast between images of enslaved women covered in red and radical feminists throwing pornographic materials into open fire took me to the two extreme ends of the spectrum. Atwood's dark, bitter, but pervasive jokes never failed to challenge me to take another look at the way I've been defining the word "feminism".
I have always considered mysefl as an individual with strong belief in equality. But I often hesitated to call myself a feminist because of the strong images people get when the word is said. but Atwood's language encouraged me to look at feminism from different perspectives, and let me see feminists in everyone, including myself.
I was stunned to discover how closed-minded I was. Letting women be whomever they choose to be is what's most important, not putting them into certian categories and telling them what they need and who they are. That's how feminsts are suppoed to be, respecting women's will and desire. The Handmaid's Tale gave me a whole different definition of feminism, and now I am finally able to call myself a feminist with confidence, knowing who I am and what I believe in.
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