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The handmaid’s tale: A dystopian society In the novel the Handmaid’s tale written by Margaret Atwood women are not granted the rights to Freedom of speech and freedom of choice. Such book takes place in the republic of Gilead, a country ruled by a totalitarian government. Women are regulated to the seconds, their individuality is stripped away, and are valued only for their functionality. The Handmaid’s tale portrays a society at its worst, it shows an example of country in where male…

The Character Analysis of Offred in “The Handmaid’s Tale” The main character of “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood is a handmaid named Offred. Offred is not a real name but just a nickname given to handmaids who belong to a certain commander (man only), in her case Fred. She wears a uniform of a handmaid, a red clock covering ankles, gloves, and a white veil covering almost half of the face, which covers the whole body. The place of the story is somewhere inside of the USA that the…

In the book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, desire is key. Throughout the novel, desire controls a majority of people and how they behave. Offred risks her life when she goes to Jezebel’s with the Commander. Offred risks her life when she sneaks off to Nick’s room every night, even though she is forbidden from doing so. Serena Joy, the Commander’s wife, risks her life when she desires a child so much that she suggests to Offred that she and Nick try to have a child together which is…

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood recounts the establishment of a theological state, Gilead, in place of the United States of America. Gilead uses the Bible to justify a misogynistic, hierarchical and racist society. Offred, the narrator, is a woman forced to become the “Handmaid” of a Gileadean Commander, Fred. Handmaids are supposedly a position of honour for fertile women; in reality, they are sex slaves, allowing only the leaders of Gilead to reproduce. In the novel, education is…

In Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, there are drastic changes that have occurred in modern society due to the government’s plan to save resources during a war. This presented a surreal flip to society which defined how citizens will live in order to succeed in the war. Offred, the narrator of this novel, constantly used or refused to use certain words in order to have control over the power that ran in the society and escape the clutches of it in her thoughts. This can be found through…

In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the female protagonist, Offred, is shaped by her society into a tool used solely for reproduction in order to serve the patriarchy. Comparably, the female protagonist, Furiosa, from the film Mad Max: Fury Road is shaped by her society into a tool used by the patriarchy to keep inhumane control over the people. Even so, both protagonists react to their objectification in contrasting ways. In the Gilead Age, women do not have as much…

This is a novel where the main character, Offred tells her side of the story sort of like a diary through The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margret Atwood, which took place in what used to be Cambridge, Massachusetts. Offred had a very rough life; everything she loved had been rip away from her hands, she forced into participating a training center. Where many young women are being brainwashed into clueless puppets and turn into handmaids. Handmaids are composed of fertile women that must help bear…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood explores the idea of… Offred is a Handmaid whose sole purpose in the society of Gilead is to reproduce by having sex with a man known as the Commander. However, the Commander has a designated Wife known as Serena Joy, and the Wives of the Commanders cannot produce children due to infertility. These two women, existing both separately and together in a lifeless world with a declining birth rate, interact in subtle yet strained ways. In a particular scene…

Her attitude to the ceremony is, certainly not a respectful one, not the one that Gilead would have tried to instil in her, "...the Commander fucks, with a regular two-four marching stroke, on and on like a tap dripping...". These are hardly the sentiments of a true believer in the role of the Handmaid. However, it is clear that the Red Centre did have some psychological effects on her by the way that she sees everything in a sexual light, she is obsessed by the colour red…

Margret Atwood’s novel "The Handmaid's Tale" published in 1985 is a brutal and unimaginable prediction of America’s future as a totalitarian state. The Republic of Gilead resorts to old fashion traditions in order to get the population back to where it once was. By recruiting fertile women as handmaids who's sole purpose is to carry children for the social elite. The government of Gilead stripped the women of any right to education, forbidding all women the ability to read and write. Instead,…