“Fear makes us the instruments of Power. When we fear, we obey” – Anonyms. Fear is the heart pounding, and the knots in the stomach feeling. It is the second thoughts and the reason one limits themselves. Fear is often seen as a weakness. Ultimately, fear controls people. In the highly controversial novel, The Handmaids Tale written in 1985 by author Margaret Atwood, Atwood creates a dystopian society where fear along with ignorance and abasement control the people within The Republic of Gilead. With the newly functioning society, the government strikes fear daily into the lives of citizens as a way to prevent something they fear, an uprising. Not only this, but in fear of being over powered by women the government again abases women to
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Fear is her biggest enemy as it continuously stops her from doing what she wants to. Fear makes itself present and controls Offred’s every action, and every decision she faces daily. The compelling novel The Handmaids Tale written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, takes readers on a journey with an underlying message that ignorance, abasement and ultimately fear, controls people. In the dystopian society of Gilead, fear controls a population of people with power, without power and even makes its presence known in the individual lives of those who are not deemed important. Readers discover that the government in Gilead uses fear to control those in a lower class to rethink their actions and act obediently. The power of fear also hangs heavy on the government and forces the government to create acts that diminishes the lives of women to prevent the fear of getting over thrown a reality. Finally, the main character Offred, showcases how fear has taken control of every decision she is forced to make in her daily life. Atwood illustrates in her novel that fear, joined with abasement and ignorance control people through their entire
Fear is her biggest enemy as it continuously stops her from doing what she wants to. Fear makes itself present and controls Offred’s every action, and every decision she faces daily. The compelling novel The Handmaids Tale written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, takes readers on a journey with an underlying message that ignorance, abasement and ultimately fear, controls people. In the dystopian society of Gilead, fear controls a population of people with power, without power and even makes its presence known in the individual lives of those who are not deemed important. Readers discover that the government in Gilead uses fear to control those in a lower class to rethink their actions and act obediently. The power of fear also hangs heavy on the government and forces the government to create acts that diminishes the lives of women to prevent the fear of getting over thrown a reality. Finally, the main character Offred, showcases how fear has taken control of every decision she is forced to make in her daily life. Atwood illustrates in her novel that fear, joined with abasement and ignorance control people through their entire