The Handmaid’S Tale

What is freedom? According to Webster’s Dictionary, freedom is the quality or state of being free. In fact, people define freedom in many different ways. Most of us can agree, however, that one of the most oppressed groups is women. Throughout history, women have been seen as a second-class citizens and objects. Many writers have…

Introduction The future ISN’T female. Envision a deteriorating world where you are no longer capable to accomplish anything for yourself, and it is forced upon you to obey the commands of others. The women in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood live that reality. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a comprehensive novel which informs the reader…

Imagine if a theocratic regime took over America. Well, Margaret Atwood brings this idea to life in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Be aware, the author uses specific writing techniques with the goal of misleading readers from the truth. Anyway, she is not the antagonist you need to worry about. You can safely assume…

When Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale was published, it became a controversial and influential novel. In the mid-1980s, the novel was in the category of best-selling novels. Outside of North America, it has been read with interest in abroad and has been translated into nearly thirty languages such as Chinese, Serbian and Croatian. The…

The intriguing stories presented in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet are filled with religious quandaries and religious extremes. This allows religion to become a significant catalyst to both stories. While religion in The Handmaid’s Tale and Hamlet are treated differently, religion still is a monumental factor to the choices and actions of…

Thesis: “The Handmaid Tales” is inspired by real situations of victimization to explore how fragile feminine empowerment can be and how a society like Gilead is neither fictional nor farfetched. Swale, Jill. ‘Feminism, and politics in The Handmaid’s Tale: Jill Swale examines the social and historical context of Atwood’s novel. (Literature in Context).’ The English…

Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, was controversial and influential in the decades following its publication. The book acquired best-seller status in the 1980s and has continued to sell in North America and abroad being translated into more than thirty-five languages, including Chinese and Serbo-Croatian. The Handmaid’s Tale has been transformed into a film, an…

Women are one of the most oppressed gatherings among all civilizations around the world. The theme of women’s oppression is as a result of the gender roles that society has planted upon them, which further leads them to serving a subordinate role. Thus the reason women have been accustomed to feeling oppressed is because sexism…

The links between language and power are multifarious. Even an examination of etymologies and fundamental grammatical formulations betray a set of gendered assumptions which some suggest are linguistic building-blocks of oppression. The Handmaid’s Tale examines the way in which language can be weaponised in order to circumscribe the expression of thought – and, by extension,…

The arts are fundamental to our humanity, as they convey the rich tapestry of human existence, including our emotions and our divergent perspectives, over time. By examining the art of both the past and the near future, they may also serve as a warning for society to avoid the pitfalls of those who have come…