Essays On The Handmaid'S Tale

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s TaleThis is a futuristic novel that takes place in northern USAsometime in the beginning of the twenty-first century, in the oppressive and totalitarian Republic of Gilead. The regime demandshigh moral, retribution and a virtuous lifestyle. The Bible is theguiding principle. As a result of the sexual freedom, freeabortion and a high […]

James Fils-Aime The Handmaid’s Tale Fact or Fiction The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel in which Atwood creates a world which seems absurd and near impossible. Women being kept in slavery only to create babies, cult like religious control over the population, and the deportation of an entire race, these things all seem like […]

Moira and Offred; one a non conformist rebel and a confessed bisexual, the other a hardworking dreamer who sees the values in family life. They are two very different people, yet have been the best of friends from as far back as their college days, pre Gilead,”Moira breezing into my room, dropping her denim jacket […]

Totalitarianism, Violence, and the Color Red in The Handmaid’s Tale In literature, the color red symbolizes many things, each with its own emotional impact. Red can be associated with violence and bloodshed, or it can be associated with love and intense emotions. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred, chosen to be a “baby-maker” for a couple […]

“‘The Handmaids Tale’ by Margaret Atwood is a narrative that challenges the absolute authority of Gilead, highlighting the significance of storytelling as an act of resistance against oppression, thereby making a particular kind of individual political statement.” (7) The narrative provides an insight of barbarical chauvinism in an injustice system of oppression towards women. It […]

The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel by Margaret Atwood, is about the life of a handmaid, Offred, and what she does to survive in the Gilead. The society of Gilead in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale is based upon the idea of making a safer place to live by producing freedoms from things such as rape […]

In the Days of Anarchy To live in a country such as the United States of America is considered a privilege. The liberties that American citizens are entitled to, as declared in the Constitution, makes the United States an attractive and envied democracy. It would be improbable to imagine these liberties being stripped from American […]

Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a modern dystopian fantasy which tells the story of an ordinary women who becomes subject to the ultra religious beliefs of the Republic of Gilead, a state in which the law of the bible rules. The novel is both modern and classic; drawing influence from many past works of […]

A sense of entrapment pervades both ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. Explore the theme of entrapment in these two texts, making careful comparisons between them and commenting particularly on the narrative strategy of each text. In many works originating from periods of time in which repression in society was apparent, the freedom […]

Offred. in Margaret Atwood’s upseting novel The Handmaid’s Tale says. “But who can retrieve hurting one time it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow. non in the head even. in the flesh. Trouble Markss you. but excessively deep to see. Out of sight. out of head. ” The society of Gilead causes […]

One of the main ideas in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood, is relationships and their importance as there is lack of intimacy and human contact which are both controlled and prohibited in Gilead. We can see that in this totalitarian society, all relationships are controlled strictly and monitored and there are […]

Many people of Gilead manipulate power to get what they want. Many characters in the novel find a way to control others with what they have, Offred uses sexuality as her power, even though she has fear of controlling this tool, she try’s to imagine what men ( angels) think of her appearance when she […]

The Handmaid’s Tale was written against the backdrop of the feminist movement. During this period Thatcher was elected as the first female Prime Minister in Britain. Although Thatcher was female she was masculine in her governance of the country. The Handmaid’s Tale presents a society where the achievements of the feminist movement are suppressed and […]

One of the strongest points of comparison beteen ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Property’ is the way in which both novels explore relationships of power and ownership. In each novel different characters exert elements of power, in Property for example plantation owners literally own the slaves; in ‘The handmaid’s tale the novel also deals with elements […]

In The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, freedom and oppression are juxtaposing themes designed to warn the reader of the dangers of the country being governed according to religious ideology. The novel takes place in Gilead, a Christian totalitarian and theocratic state, governed by martial law which has replaced the United States […]

Disillusioned by the societies that lay before them, Huxley and Atwood crafted fascinatingly bleak, futuristic satires in which the past had been abolished. Within the midst of Huxley’s technocratic London and Atwood’s theocratic Gilead, two dehumanised masses merely exist to fulfil the ideologies of their omnipotent rulers. Each society of conditioned and religiously brainwashed individuals […]

All throughout the text “The Handmaid’s Tale”, there is a permanent theme of totalitarianism. Regimes that follow a totalitarian cultural ensure dominance over their subjects with the use of manipulation (Finigan 435). Besides the use of manipulation, the authority figures in “The Handmaid’s Tale” dominate the subjects by controlling their experience of life, time, memory […]

The Handmaid’s Tale- Fertility of Women Critique In The Handmaid’s Tale, Gilead rose to power in large part because no one was making babies any more. Even though baby making is a two-person process, society has shifted all the blame for infertility onto women. “There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not […]

The theme of conformity and resistance reigns throughout the book “The Handmaids Tale” as it follows the life of Offred in a new and restrictive society named Gilead. However, this theme has the potential to be repetitive and boring if the author is not armed with the right techniques. Margaret Atwood, has these skills in […]

At first, The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) may purely seem like a reconstruction of events. However, when examined more closely the reader can see that Atwood has used many narrative and poetic techniques. Each of these devices develop the novel into so much more than just a simple reconstruction of events, it becomes a precise and […]

Texts which represent imagined societies vary considerable, depending on their contexts and the values underlying them. Compare the representations of Utopia and The Handmaidens Tale, exploring how different contexts and different values create different meanings. Thomas More’s acclaimed satirical novel, Utopia exhibits a fictional society, ‘Utopia’ on which social and philosophical concepts of 16th century […]

As the architects of Gilead knew, to institute an effective tolitarian sytem or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those you remove. In a tolitarian state, Atwood suggests, that people would endure oppression willingly as long as they could receive […]