power restricts women from their freedom. In the novel the women are stripped of their real
names, their voices and their rights. The Handmaid's work in a house in Gilead run by a married
commander, whom they must have sex with to become pregnant and provide the household with
a child. The narrator, Offred uses her language as a tool to escape the plight of her existence by
manipulating things to her advantage in her the little ways she can.
In many ways the novel can be seen as a use of power. In the republic of Gilead the
commander seems to have all the power. Atwood uses freedom as an escape from those who
contain all the power and