Flashbacks In The Handmaids Tale

One’s imagination is one’s reality, the mindset and possibility an event or action can be. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the novel presents a dystopian literature that emits an alternate reality of life. The story is gives off the government being broken and the society itself completely changed to the ways a few wanted which stripped women’s rights, United States of America changed to Republic of Gilead, and the Gilead made some women into Handmaids which used just for breeding. Though not all women are handmaids mostly because they can’t have a child. The Handmaid’s Tale provides a possibility that it actually can happen in real life with the flashbacks from Offend used to remember Pre-Gilend, how the events that …show more content…
Offred's flashbacks offer particularly what was like when the government was alive. “Women were not protected then...Don’t open your door to a stranger, even if he says is the police...If anymore whistles, don’t turn to look…”(Atwood 24). It shows the unwritten rules women had to follow in Pre-Gilend days where women had to be careful what they. It provides the lives the unwritten rules of the women and in real life the women follow similar unwritten rules. The unwritten rules factored the Pre-Gilend days made women to think and act according.“In a news magazine, long after I’d first watched her singing...on sunday morning”(Atwood 45). The quote provide the lives the Offend had before the Gilead. The simple life of United States in the book and real are similar in one way because the alternate reality is noticable considering the lives of ours and the lives in the book …show more content…
When there was the start of problems, the people decided to make the women to lost most of their most basic rights. “Women can’t hold property anymore, she said. It’s a new law” (Atwood 178). The news after the fall of USA, the people of Gilead made a new law to make women to not have the same rights comparing to men. This new law that is made after the fall of the government make real life scary mostly because there are people that think that way in which can in fact happen in real life. “I have something to tell you...We all looked up... I’m sorry, he said, but it’s the law. I really sorry...I have to let you go, he said…”(Atwood 176). The quote presents that the women in the jobs being let off due to the new law that women are not allowed to work to earn money themselves. This makes women mostly there for the men in which the women lost all rights and powers as the men when they used to