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…, who train Handmaids. By referring to women as their category and not their individual name, Atwood impersonalises these women, making them representative of their whole category within Gilead. This gives the book extra depth, making it more than just…

…in that he would not let any males come to visit or even come near her. Faulkner illustrates this characteristic in writing, "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such" (434). The relationships and love that Emily desired were brutally…

…finds a special thrill in trying to win the unconquerable love of Ona. Ona is a woman ahead of her time, unwilling to be controlled, even by the strong and powerful Agbadi, not only because of her individual desires, but because of her respect…

…found a reason for everything. Max was not traveling down this river alone, however. He had a mentor, an older man named Sol, who apparently at some time was pursuing Max’s desires as well. Sol ran into some complications along the same path as Max…

…It is not the actual "kiss" which Amory desires (just as, later in his life, it is not sex itself which he wants), but rather it is the idea of being able to kiss the girl that intrigues him. He is, in short, perpetually fascinated with some imagined and usually baroque…

…It is not the actual "kiss" which Amory desires (just as, later in his life, it is not sex itself which he wants), but rather it is the idea of being able to kiss the girl that intrigues him. He is, in short, perpetually fascinated with some imagined and usually baroque…

…It is not the actual "kiss" which Amory desires (just as, later in his life, it is not sex itself which he wants), but rather it is the idea of being able to kiss the girl that intrigues him. He is, in short, perpetually fascinated with some imagined and usually baroque…

…whom they believed to be responsible for the figure. It read: “In the city of Feltre there is a woman named Giulia Cumano, wife of Messer Zuan Cumano doctor of law, who has several children, among them a daughter of about eighteen. This mother decided…

…of happiness. The reference, however, is more specifically to the utility and usefulness of human actions to produce happiness, which comes to be equated with pleasure or the satisfaction of desires. Though typical of modern man's mentality, such a philosophy…

…century a few writers had become dissatisfied and alluded to writing about feeling and sentiment. This was known as the transition period, which made way for the conversation of most writers to Romanticism. Some authors, namely Jane Austin, created Neo-Classic…