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    Written in 1985, the dystopian, fictional novel; The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood depicts a totalitarian theocracy society set in the United States of America that covers many facets of being a modern woman in this patriarchal world, that range from domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, to less-involved topics. Though the novel was originally published in the year 1985, its’ explicit scenes draw an eerie image of what the future may look for women following the election of President Donald

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    Margaret Atwood uses a variety of different ways to achieve the marginalization of women in her book The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel creates an entirely new social construct and redefines language to create the marginalization of women. Heavily relying on narrative voice, the novel unravels Gilead, a city set in a dystopian future where women are nothing more than objects. Men are the only ones who are ascribed to authority while women are marginalized as subordinates. The novel was written in 1985

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    Regardless of Atwood's aversion of the name, woman's rights and level headed discussions inside the women's activist development assume a focal part in The Handmaid's Tale. For instance, women's activist perspectives on marriage vary. A few women's activists trust that marriage is a patriarchal establishment that is inalienably misanthropic. Others trust that the way of marriage is advancing into a relationship of equivalents. In the novel, Offred's marriage to Luke depends on adoration and shared

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    In the “science fiction” novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood describes a distinct view of the future in which a new totalitarian regime has taken over the government of the United States. The novel focuses on the experience of Offred, a handmaid, as she retells events of her past life, and provides readers an insight on the extremity of control that the Republic of Gilead has over citizens. Atwood conforms to and deviates from the conventions of science fiction by using different narrative

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    The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood that contains many controversial ideas and themes relating to society. The novel takes place in the near future of a new society called the Republic of Gilead, not very long after the United States government was overthrown. Gilead follows the rules and policies made by the new religiously extremist rulers. The readers learn about Gilead through the narrator named Offred, who is a handmaid. The Handmaids

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    The Canadian author Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale back in 1984. A year later, the book was published in 1985. The novel narrates the struggle of a handmaid who finds herself stuck in a repressive, totalitarian regime. This regime takes place in The Republic of Gilead formerly known as the U.S.A where all the fertile handmaids are forced to carry children for the elite commanders of the society. The novel is considered as a dystopian speculative fiction which is a literary genre that

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    Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid's Tale is a book of prophecy, foreshadowing to events that could happen years after it was published. The way Atwood describes the events leading to the government was overthrown by Gilead has concepts that were not something just anyone could foresee happening. She describes a system that undergoes a major social change by using a revolutionary social movement to radically change a culture, which can be compared to other cultures who recently went through major

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    Offred is a character created from a tranquil and reserved handmaid into the defiant hero as the story goes on. Atwood utilizes this character change to show how interest can lead one to push the points of confinement of society and the limits of knowledge. The Novel is set in a dystopian society where women have been stripped of their identity. Offred is one of them, being separated from her daughter and husband then being taken in to be trained as a handmaid. Offred now battles through this new

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    Margaret Atwood’s well-known novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” is about a woman named Offred. She is a handmaid in Gilead, a theocratical state that has taken over the United States. Due to extinct reproduction rates, the handmaids are assigned to bear children for couples who no longer can conceive a child. The handmaid serves the commander and his wife. They are raped, and they have controlled freedom. If a handmaid goes against the rules, then she is brutally punished or even killed. As Offred tells

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    The Handmaid’s Tale: A Feminist Post-Apocalyptic Novel In Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, birthrates have fallen vastly below the replacement rate causing a threat to the human race’s existence. The reproductive apocalypse has prompted a theocracy in which women have lost all of their basic rights and civil liberties. In Gilead, the new tyrannical theocratic regime that has taken over the United States, Offred’s fertility has deemed her useful. She becomes a Handmaid; she’s essentially

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