system strip an individual of their civil rights as a human being in order to gain ultimate control over its citizens. A government such as the Republic of Gilead in Margaret Atwood’s work‚ The Handmaid’s Tale‚ controls their citizen’s lives to the extent to where they must learn to suppress their emotions and feelings. In the Republic of Gilead‚ the main character Offred is a handmaid‚ which is a fertile woman who is assigned to be a surrogate mother for a woman that is no longer fertile‚ but is wealthy
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of Gilead‚ resulting with new laws derived from the Bible which deprived many Gileadean citizens from their rights. Throughout the novel distorted biblical allusions and christian ideology are utilized from within the Old Testament in order for the patriarchal regime to show efficiency towards citizens. Moreover‚ the Republic of Gilead utilizes passages from the Bible in order to seize and deprive their citizens’ rights through the religious ideology‚
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categories‚ that women in Gilead are a part of‚ there are the commander’s wives‚ handmaids‚ Econowives (those not good enough to become handmaids or commander’s wives)‚ Aunts (collaborators who run torture lectures and spokespersons for the church state of Gilead (Malak))‚ Marthas (servants/slaves) and the unwomen or undesirables (feminists‚ elderly women and others who do not fit into any of the other categories or who do not conform to Gilead’s rules). The state of Gilead “… reduces the handmaids
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Poverty in Real life vs. Gilead The issue of poverty would be handled differently in Gilead than in real life‚ as it would include hiding the truth from the citizens of society‚ sending the poor to the colonies and ignoring the issue altogether. A major difference between Gilead and in real life‚ would be that in Gilead the government would attempt to resolve this issue by concealing the hard facts about poverty within their society. Unlike in real life‚ most people find out about issues as they
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Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and I could not be more in agreeance with its messages. In case you don’t know‚ the book was written during the first waves of feminism and civil rights movements and depicts a dystopian society known as the Republic of Gilead which took over what used to be known as the United States in 1985. The book addresses various social controversies which were present at the time‚ and frankly most of which are issues I still see today such as governmental power‚ the power of language
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you will notice the criteria needed to be considered dystopian. Some examples of criteria that can be found in the novel are as follows: totalitarian control‚ dehumanization‚ theocratic government‚ and (in this case) misogyny. In the Republic of Gilead‚ there is complete control over women and most of their rights are restricted. The same rights women have fought to gain for over many years. Simple things that the modern woman would more than likely take for granted. Things such as reading‚ a marital
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these liberties being stripped from American society. However‚ Margaret Atwood depicts the United States as a dystopian society in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. The first society is modern America‚ with its autonomy and liberal customs. The second‚ Gilead‚ a far cry from modern America‚ is a totalitarian Christian theocracy which absorbs America in the late 1980s in order to salvage it from widespread pollution and a dwindling birthrate. The principal flaw in Atwood’s Gileadian society is the justification
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Margaret Atwood’s Novel thoroughly depicts feminist and government control issues. Atwood’s intent is to warn society about the dangers surrounding such issues in order to prevent a world like Gilead. Gilead is an anti-feminist society in which women have been oppressed for the sole reason of reproduction necessities and for the infertile women‚ they also have been deprived from any vocal expression or any textual knowledge in order to maintain power within the males and the regime; women are deprived
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Atwood is set in the debris of a shattered America. In Gilead‚ women are completely dominated by men and their position in society is completely determined by the status of their husband and their fertility. Atwood depicts women as powerless beings in a society completely unfamiliar to anything we would understand. In her novel‚ the author offers more than just a critique of feminism as the issue of feminism is imbued into her work. In Gilead‚ women are strictly categorized as Handmaids‚ Wives‚ Marthas
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