8). According to the lecture notes, women should decide about their reproductive rights, and the government should not interfere with it (Lecture notes, p. 9). However, the reproductive rights of many women in novel were taken away from them. For example, the Handmaids are fertile women whose job is to bear children for the wives of the commanders. The handmaids do not have control over their pregnancies and childbirth process. They do not have freedom to decide whether to have a child or not have a child. Other people have control of their body. Offred is handmaid in the home of Serena Joy and his husband. Under the new government, Offred has no choice, but to bear child for this household. The novel illustrates the prison life of these handmaids. Their bodies are treated like an object, which they have no control. Once they are able to produce a baby to one household, they are being transferred again to another
8). According to the lecture notes, women should decide about their reproductive rights, and the government should not interfere with it (Lecture notes, p. 9). However, the reproductive rights of many women in novel were taken away from them. For example, the Handmaids are fertile women whose job is to bear children for the wives of the commanders. The handmaids do not have control over their pregnancies and childbirth process. They do not have freedom to decide whether to have a child or not have a child. Other people have control of their body. Offred is handmaid in the home of Serena Joy and his husband. Under the new government, Offred has no choice, but to bear child for this household. The novel illustrates the prison life of these handmaids. Their bodies are treated like an object, which they have no control. Once they are able to produce a baby to one household, they are being transferred again to another