The Handmaids Tale

Title: The Handmaids Tale
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 631 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Handmaids Tale

The Handmaid’s Tale In Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s Tale, our eyes are open to an oppressive society of which seems to be the near future. Widespread sterility has led to the rich controlling young women of childbearing age, who are called “handmaidens”. The tale is narrated by Kate, also known as “Offred”, her handmaid name. She relates her struggle throughout in the most vivid of ways. The struggle around her: the oppressive …showed first 75 words of 631 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 631 total…is not fantasy but rather fiction and thus implying this can actually occur. We must then recognize the problems that Atwood was trying to point out. The relationship between Gilead and our society is the fact that gender does play a major factor on the way we are expected to behave. Not drastically, such as in the novel but enough to coerce us to conduct ourselves distinctively and play the assigned role of our gender.

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