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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’;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Magaret Atwood is a popular Canadian poet, she wrote a book called, ‘Handmaid’s tale’. The handmaid’s tale contains the sort of dystopia that could happen in the USA. The book is basically about a newly formed country and that took away women’s freedom and their...