The “Faith”Maid’s Tale
A chair, a table, a lamp.
A country, a regime that recognizes the male gender only, a handmaid.
In the book The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood creates a dystopian world where the country is under the control of the Regime Gilead, which, does not count women as gender and a separate human being. Not only not seeing them as a separate human being, the owners of the regime cause these women to be picked up and used the fertile ones as a child-producing machine, and destroy the “un”women ones by sending them to colonies- which are basically the hells on earth, and they’re doing this without caring what will they say and how will they feel. June, or with her new nickname Offred, is the main character of the book and one of …show more content…
You may wonder, how does she stand such an inhumane act on her? They, the regime, forces her by giving her no other chance, taking her family away from her, manipulating her sexual and religious(e.g “Under His Eye”) behaviours, they try to create the pressure, the fear factor on her. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear” says the movie Hunger games. And hope’s also what has been stronger than this fear here, “hope” is the feeling what kept Offred alive and maintained her sanity for her survival, as it has been talled in the motifs in the story.
Throughout the book, more thoughts and inside-speaking than talking of Offred can be read. While she’s trying to survive in the life she’s been dragged into, motifs can be realized in her continuous thoughts. The first of them is, the motif of telling a “story” to herself. “I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling, I need to
A chair, a table, a lamp.
A country, a regime that recognizes the male gender only, a handmaid.
In the book The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood creates a dystopian world where the country is under the control of the Regime Gilead, which, does not count women as gender and a separate human being. Not only not seeing them as a separate human being, the owners of the regime cause these women to be picked up and used the fertile ones as a child-producing machine, and destroy the “un”women ones by sending them to colonies- which are basically the hells on earth, and they’re doing this without caring what will they say and how will they feel. June, or with her new nickname Offred, is the main character of the book and one of …show more content…
You may wonder, how does she stand such an inhumane act on her? They, the regime, forces her by giving her no other chance, taking her family away from her, manipulating her sexual and religious(e.g “Under His Eye”) behaviours, they try to create the pressure, the fear factor on her. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear” says the movie Hunger games. And hope’s also what has been stronger than this fear here, “hope” is the feeling what kept Offred alive and maintained her sanity for her survival, as it has been talled in the motifs in the story.
Throughout the book, more thoughts and inside-speaking than talking of Offred can be read. While she’s trying to survive in the life she’s been dragged into, motifs can be realized in her continuous thoughts. The first of them is, the motif of telling a “story” to herself. “I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling, I need to