The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
We all believe oppression is thing of the past, right? What if it isn’t? What if oppression was a thing in our future too? In the story “ The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, a futuristic story about a dystopian society that oppresses women and treats them as property, years after women had been finally equal in society. In this society women are not allowed to read, so all signs are turned into pictures, women also cannot leave the house more than once a day with the commander's permission. This story is centered around Offred, a young handmaid in the Republic of Gilead that has a duty to give birth to a child for her Commander and his wife.In a time where birth rates a declining dramatically and
We all believe oppression is thing of the past, right? What if it isn’t? What if oppression was a thing in our future too? In the story “ The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, a futuristic story about a dystopian society that oppresses women and treats them as property, years after women had been finally equal in society. In this society women are not allowed to read, so all signs are turned into pictures, women also cannot leave the house more than once a day with the commander's permission. This story is centered around Offred, a young handmaid in the Republic of Gilead that has a duty to give birth to a child for her Commander and his wife.In a time where birth rates a declining dramatically and