Essays on The Handmaid's Tale

Across the world today, women from different countries, ages, and rankings share a common concern among themselves, that being more often than not they fall below the spectrum of gender equality when being compared to a man. Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, helps...

In “The Handmaid’s Tale”, Margret Atwood Atwood used setting to create a somber, dark and disturbing atmosphere which is consistent with the story. The story took place in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state which replaced the United States. Because of the...

In The Handmaid’s Tale, the author, Margaret Atwood, marginalizes women in many ways. To comment on power and privilege afforded to women, Atwood uses redefinition of language, creation of setting, and narrative voice to marginalize women. Set in a theocratic future, Gilead, where women are...

To this day, females struggle to protect their individuality in a society that is governed by men. Women compete to voice their visions and obtain equal rights. In the media and society, female issues are overlooked, therefore neglected. In the novel, The Handmaid’s Tale by...

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale lends itself well to the feminist literary theory by presenting a dystopic fantasy that illustrates the government’s negative manipulation of power in the Gileadean regime through an effect use of colour symbolism in clothing, the accentuation of the significance of...

Imagine a world where you are everything but free. You are not allowed to read or be in any sort of personal relationship. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood tells the story of a dystopian society. Although several critics regard her novel as a ‘feminist dystopia’;...

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a tragic, dystopian novel taking perusers through the trial of Offred, a handmaid in Gilead, an extremely religious group once known as the United States, that has taken all of the rights of women, and has decreased them...

The issues raised in The Handmaid’s Tale are not specific to a particular place or time. These concerns have been raised in cultures and societies over many years, both prior to the time of publishing of The Handmaid’s Tale and today. Some of these include...

A book tells a greater story beyond the words that fill its pages. Often, it reflects the lives of the author who wrote it and how they find inspiration the social and political standards of their time period. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Shakespeare makes odes...

The two novels The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Anthem by Ayn Rand are both set in extremist societies, inspired by communities under control of controversial governing bodies; the Puritans and the Communists. The Handmaid’s Tale focuses on the oppression of women, whilst Anthem...