Suffering Roles In Handmaids Tale

Suffering Roles In the novel, there's an ambition to a society that is horrifying in different ways. In Ms. Atwood’s book The Handmaid's Tale, they bare with a society in which women’s have no right to anything. It creates a region that makes it impossible for someone to live in and it makes them vuniberal. Just imagine, you live in a city in which everybody is against you and your rights and you can't do anything about it because you’re a woman, you’re considered inferior. For example, how women’s take a major part of the story and suffer the most because they have to take roles of which each one is assigned in order to have a baby without any health issue or disability. In the novel, there enforcing roles in …show more content…
Its something horrific and traumatizing that they had to go through but at the same time the weren’t aware that they were letting this society develop. Both genders were going through some rough times but women had it way worse because they had to go through things which was pretty horrifying. “I stand five seven without shoes. I have trouble remembering what I used to look like.” (Atwood 143) The fact that womens couldn’t remember what they look like or when was the last time they actually felt loved seems alarming. Women were always on there bare feet and they couldn’t use lotion or a razor or any personal use to clean themselves. Womens had a bigger influence in this book, they suffered to the point where it was traumatizing. It’s not fine that you see people hanged up from a wall and you're okay with that. This society lives in a generation that is totally destroyed. The fact that handmaid's are willing to kill themselves because they just can't keep up with it. It harming them and they have to live it everyday. They have to witness various event like seeing the salvaging, people hanged in the wall because of deeds that were nonsense, and seeing there friends go to the colonies or have to enter into prostitution. Offred explicitly describes the salvaging, she states,“the white bag over her head, the woman helps you onto the high stool as if she's being held up to the steps of a bus, the noose adjusted delicately around the neck, like an investment, the stool is kicked away.” (Atwood 276) The woman’s had to go through salvaging once in a while and it seems very horrific because they had to watch someone get hanged for deeds that seem nonsense. Women in this society really stepped up and tried to manage the situation the best they can and dealt with it even though it would break them and there whole families but it wasn’t much of a choice they